Inside the Plot That Killed Ahmad Shah Massoud
On 9 September 2001, two al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, just two days before the 9/11 attacks. But how did they manage to get so close to him?In this excerp...
9 Sep 12min
The Inside Story of Hamid Karzai’s Rise to Power | Don Parnell (Part 3)
More than two decades after helping overthrow the Taliban and witnessing the birth of Afghanistan’s new government, Don Parnell looks back at what became of the country — and the people — he left behi...
23 Aug 36min
The Inside Story of Hamid Karzai’s Rise to Power | Don Parnell (Part 2)
As Hamid Karzai emerged as Afghanistan’s new interim leader, the Taliban’s first regime was collapsing. But behind the scenes, the final days of Taliban rule in their Pashtun heartland, were shaped as...
27 Jul 30min
The Inside Story of Hamid Karzai’s Rise to Power | Don Parnell (Part 1)
On 14 November 2001, a small CIA team and U.S. Special Forces secretly inserted Hamid Karzai into southern Afghanistan. Less than a month later, Karzai would become Afghanistan’s interim leader.In Par...
10 Jul 30min
How the CIA Defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan | Milton Bearden (Part 3)
In this third and final part of a remarkable conversation, Milton Bearden reflects on the aftermath of the anti-Soviet jihad, the collapse of Afghanistan into civil war, and the decisions that helped ...
23 Mai 26min
How the CIA Defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan | Milton Bearden (Part 2)
In this second part of a remarkable conversation, Milton Bearden reflects on what came after the Soviet withdrawal and the decisions that helped shape Afghanistan’s next, far more chaotic chapter.He e...
26 Apr 26min
How the CIA Defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan | Milton Bearden (Part 1)
Milton Bearden was the CIA officer tasked by Director William Casey in 1986 with using $1 billion and Stinger missiles to help drive Soviet forces out of Afghanistan, one of the most consequential cov...
3 Apr 33min
