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Former CIA-director under Ronald Reagan, who supported a March 1987
rocket attack against villages in the USSR's republic of
Tajikistan. He increased support to the Isi program (under General
Zia-al Huq->) to recruit radical Muslims, especially Arabs, to come to
Pakistan to fight with the mujaheddin (->) in Afghanistan. One year
later Mikhail Gorbachev announced a phased withdrawal of Soviet troops
from Afghanistan. Casey later committed direct CIA involvement in the
drug trade during the Contra War years (Iran-Contra->). Source:
