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Zbigniew Brzezinski

National Security Adviser to President Carter.

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Covert aid to the Afghan resistance says he wrote Carter that day that the aid would induce a Soviet intervention According to Zbigniew Brzezinski Scholarship & press 1

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Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, 15–21 January 1998 (English translation), Le Nouvel Observateur (translation on the Marxist History Archive), Jan 1998. Scholarship & press
U.S. President Carter's National Security Adviser
And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XII, Afghanistan, Document 44: Editorial Note, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 2018. Primary record
On March 30, 1979, the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski

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