Person

Karl Inderfurth

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia in the late 1990s.

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U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Scholarship & press 1

Claim of U.S. support for the Taliban, 1999 denied any U.S. support: “no arms, no training” According to Karl Inderfurth Scholarship & press 1
Unocal’s pipeline plans across Afghanistan met Taliban officials on 8 December 1997 who were in the U.S. under Unocal’s auspices Scholarship & press 2 3

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Afghanistan: U.S. Denies It Secretly Supports Taliban, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 15 Apr 1999. Scholarship & press
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Karl Inderfurth said Wednesday that the U.S. has provided no weapons, no training, nor any other form of assistance to the Taliban.
Nothing could be further from the truth -- no arms, no training, nor any other form of assistance, nor any quiet encouragement.
The September 11th Sourcebooks, Volume II: Afghanistan: the Taliban File, 1996-2001 (Electronic Briefing Book No. 97), National Security Archive, 11 Sep 2003. Scholarship & press
On December 8, 1997 Taliban officials, who were in the US under the auspices of Unocal, met with Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Karl Inderfurth in Washington D.C.
Pipe Dreams, Mother Jones, Oct 2001. Scholarship & press
A few days later, the Taliban’s minister of mines met with the State Department’s top official for South Asia.

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