Reply #29: He's Also Proud They Funnelled Billions To Bin Laden...

[RestoreGore]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6130302.stm

In a speech in 1999, Mr Gates said that its most important role was in Afghanistan.

"CIA had important successes in covert action. Perhaps the most consequential of all was Afghanistan where CIA, with its management, funnelled billions of dollars in supplies and weapons to the Mujahideen, and the resistance was thus able to fight the vaunted Soviet army to a standoff and eventually force a political decision to withdraw," he said.
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