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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…
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…