Covert Action Cover to Cover

The Directorate of Operations in the Central Intelligence Agency wasn’t initially a big fan of what might be its two most consequential Cold War covert actions: the delivery of Stinger missiles to the Afghan mujahedeen and QRHELPFUL, which sent books, magazines, cash, printing supplies, and other aid into Poland after the communist regime tried to smash the independent trade union, Solidarity, in December 1981.

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