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by trasz 1607 days ago
Indeed, they didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

"Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken.[2] Funding [..] rose to $630 million per year in 1987,[1][4][5] described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency".

What happened next was a logical consequence.