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I feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities.

I feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities. Let's not forget that Gehlen got greenlit to feed Nazi groups in an effort to counter soviet influence. Similarly the strong support of China was done in order to counter the soviets. In the end the Soviet-Union collapsed and China ended up being a much stronger adversary than the Russian would ever be.

badpun 4y ago
> I feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities. It changed over time. During the late 40ties, the US was still confused about its position on the USSR - for example, in the occupied West Germany, the US confiscated hundreds of copies of Ukrainian translation of George's Orwel Animal Farm and handed it over to the Soviets to destroy it.