I'm reading this brilliant ebook now about Afghanistan and how monsters like the Taliban and Al Qaeda were created. So many spy agencies were involved. The KGB, CIA, M16, the Pakistani Inter Intelligence Services, the Saudis. CIA supplied arms, money to the Afghans during the Soviet Invasion. One CIA spy even went to Afghanistan in 1996 to meet the famous warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud who was a moderate. There the CIA chap negotiated a deal with him to recover back the used stinger missiles that were provided by the CIA to the Afghan warlords fighting the Soviets in the 80s. The stinger missiles were effective in defeating the Soviets. If I remember correctly, the CIA offered $150,000 to the warlords for one Stinger being returned to them.