User:Dlv999/Operation Cyclone
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Motivation[edit]
The US government started assessing the possibility of a covert operation to support insurgents opposed to the Afghanistan government in January 1979.[1][2]
- ^ Gates, Robert M. (1996). From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War. Simon & Schuster. pp. 143-. ISBN 0684810816.
- ^ William Daugherty (2 June 2006). Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-8131-7196-8. Retrieved 10 May 2013.