CIA Secret Operations in Afghanistan during Cold War

when the Afghans were the allies and the Russian were enemies. The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests, and secretly plotted . If anything defined the. The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year proxy war during the Cold war involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. A 2002 article by Michael Rubin stated that in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the United States sought rapprochement with the Afghan government—a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable.