A brief, but revealing, transcript of an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski (one of the founders of the Trilateral Commission) with respect to Operation Cyclone – a CIA operation in which American (and Saudi) money was funneled to the ISI (Pakistan's Intelligence Agency), to be spent radicalizing and arming the Mujahideen to suck the USSR into a "Vietnam" conflict.

Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski

The funding of the op continued over decades and increased to the tune of billions. Part of the playbook was going after the education system to spread anti-Soviet dogma and encourage jihad –  "The majority of the book’s 41 lessons glorify violence in the name of religion. “My uncle has a gun,” reads the entry for the letter T, using the Pashto word for “gun,” “topak.” “He does jihad with the gun.”" (

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