Anti-Communist/Anti-Russian Terrorism and the CIA
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The Cold War was fought with overt and covert techniques.The CIA utilized anti-Castro Cubans living in Miami,Florida ,recruited them and trained them in secret bases in Florida. The Bay of Pigs was the largest covert CIA-sponsored Cuban insurgent attack on Cuba.After the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation, the CIA changed tactics from commando raids to the use of terrorist tactics such as sabotage,bombings,mine laying in Cuban harbors and other such activities.
The CIA utilized various anti-Castro terrorists such as Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, and Virgilio Paz Romero who planted a bomb on a Cubana airline flying from Venezuela to Cuba killing all aboard. These same CIA sponsored terrorists were responsible for numerous bombings of Cuban resort hotels to scare off foreign tourists in an attempt at economic warfare against Cuba [4][5] [6] [[7][8]
The US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski under President Carter developed the concept of the Green-belt theory which involved a plan to use Saudi Arabian money and CIA logistical support to train and arm Islamic radicals within the Soviet Union and in neighboring countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan [1][2][3]. These CIA supported Islamic Jihadists like Osama Bin Ladin and many other fought against the Soviet Union in it's Afghanistan war. According to Robert Dreyfus,the CIA also provided training and money to the Chechans during the Cold War to use them as guerrilla fighters in case of a Soviet invasion of Europe.This concept was modeled on Operation Gladio which involved training paramilitary organizations in Europe to serve as guerilla units in case of a Soviet invasion [9].Once the Soviet Union dissolved,these same Chechan terrorists were to destabalize and weaken the post-Soviet Russia [ [10][http://.www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Chechnya.asp [11]</ref>. Some critics have suggested that the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (which was founded by Brzezinski)is thought to be a CIA front organization used to funnel money to the Chechans separatists/terrorists.
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[A]/Robert Dreyfus.The Devil's Game: How the United States unleashed Fundamentalist Islam.Pluto Press.2005.
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