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How to Smear a Patriot: A 1985 Case Study
In the 1980s, Andrew Eiva, a Republican and anti-Communist activist, led the successful grassroots campaign to force the CIA to arm the Afghan mujahedin with Stinger missiles. He exposed the CIA's disinformation and proved its policy was failing. He won the war of facts. So, the bureaucratic resistance started a…
How to Deconstruct a CIA Hoax
In 1983, mujahid leader Sibjhautullah Mojadedi visited Washington and confronted CIA Director William Casey with the lethal reality of his policy: "You are making us die too cheap." Casey's response was not to fix the supply line; it was to retaliate with arms reductions that led to hundreds of deaths.…
The Missile the CIA Fought—And Now Calls a ‘Game-Changer’
Today, the CIA's official museum features the Stinger missile as a game-changer that was one of the key factors in the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan. But this official vindication hides the real story. For six years, the CIA's own Deputy Director, John J. McMahon, was the single most powerful obstacle…
Lethal Consequences: The ‘Policy by Default’ That Defined Their War
In my research for Normal Channels: Blocked or Compromised, I uncovered the full 1985 comments from Dr. Edward Luttwak that formed the basis of the "Don't Blame the CIA" debate. This document is a brilliant contemporary diagnosis of why U.S. policy was a "policy by default" and how it led…