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Ex-CIA Officer Reveals U.S. Ignored Pakistan’s Nuclear Build-Up in 1980s for Afghan War Cooperation
Former CIA intelligence officer Richard Barlow has uncovered the deliberate ignorance of the US, ignoring repeated warnings about Pakistan's clandestine nuclear weapons development in the 1980s for Pakistani cooperation in funneling covert military aid to the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In an interview with a news agency, Barlow, a non-proliferation expert who worked for the CIA, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Department of Defence, said tha...