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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
The way I understand it we had to funnel the money through Pakistani Intelligence because if we funded the cause directly it would take away from the Arab-Muslim nationalism thing.
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The big reason is that it would have been an open challenge to the Soviets if we had funded them directly. We knew exactly where the money was going, we specifically funded development of weapons for the Mujahedin to shoot down Soviet helicopters, and we brought in CIA operatives to train them for a guerilla war.