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What if the CIA's greatest Cold War victory created America's deadliest enemy? This is the story of Operation Cyclone—the secret war in Afghanistan that armed the militants who would attack the United States on September 11, 2001.

In 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the CIA launched its largest and most expensive covert operation in history. For a decade, the agency funneled billions of dollars in weapons and training to Afghan resistance fighters. The strategy worked: the Soviets withdrew in defeat, and the Cold War ended. But in the chaos left behind, a network of foreign jihadists—armed, trained, and battle-hardened—formed a new organization called al-Qaeda.

This documentary reveals how Operation Cyclone, designed to give the Soviet Union "its own Vietnam," unintentionally created the global jihadist movement. Using declassified government records and authoritative historical sources, we trace the direct line from the CIA's covert war in the 1980s to the terrorist attacks of 2001.

⏱️ VIDEO LENGTH: 12:19

📚 PRIMARY SOURCES & REFERENCES:

Tim Weiner, "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" (2007)
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation based on 50,000+ declassified documents

Steve Coll, "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden" (2004)
Pulitzer Prize winner, definitive account of CIA operations 1979-2001

Declassified CIA and State Department documents on Operation Cyclone
Available through National Security Archive at George Washington University

Congressional testimony and reports on covert assistance to Afghan resistance (1980s-1990s)

Presidential briefings and National Security Council records (declassified)

🎯 KEY TOPICS COVERED:
The 1979 Soviet invasion and CIA intelligence failures
Zbigniew Brzezinski's strategy to create "the USSR's Vietnam"
The CIA-ISI partnership and Pakistan's role
William Casey's escalation under Reagan
The Stinger missile turning point (1986)
Osama bin Laden's arrival and the rise of Arab volunteers
The formation of al-Qaeda in 1988
America's withdrawal and the consequences of abandoning Afghanistan

📺 STRATEGY CODEX SERIES:
Part 11 of our comprehensive documentary series examining the CIA's covert operations during the Cold War, based on declassified documents and peer-reviewed historical research.

Previous episodes: Iran 1953 coup, Guatemala 1954, Congo 1960, Cuba assassination plots, Chile 1973, and more.

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DISCLAIMER: This content is educational and based on declassified government documents, peer-reviewed historical scholarship, and authoritative journalistic investigations. All claims are supported by documentary evidence from the sources listed above.

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