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Monday, January 19, 2004
Found through Josh Marshall, Calpundit's summary of a book covering one of Richard Perle's previous lunatic ideas: Their idea was to encourage Soviet officers [in Afghanistan during the war there] and soldiers to defect to the mujahideen. As [CIA chief Gust] Avrakotos derisively describes it, "The muj were supposed to set up loudspeakers in the mountains announcing such things as 'Lay down your arms, there is a passage to the West and to freedom.'" Once news of the program made its way through the Red Army, it was argued, there would be a flood of defectors. Oddly enough, it didn't happen, despite Perle's persistant belief that it had, facts be damned. Once a fantasist, always a fantasist, I guess.
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