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last updated on March 9, 2018.
By Mark Owuor Otieno
World Facts
What Was Operation Cyclone?
Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive CIA operations of all time.
From 1979 to 1989 and thereafter, the CIA armed and financed the mujahideen in Afghanistan in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. This funding began before the USSR’s military intervention and continued throughout the entire period. The program, through the recommendation of the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, supported militant Islamic groups giving them millions of dollars annually on an increasing schedule. Operation Cyclone goes down in history as one of the longest and most expensive CIA operations ever. In the early years, funding ranged between $20 and $30 million dollars per year and increased to $630 million per year by 1987.
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