Cambridge Forum February 4, 2009
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009This statement was made by Charles Cogan, chief of the Near East-South Asia Division in the Operations Directorate of the CIA from 1979 to 1984 following our presentation of the facts we had presented regarding the true reasons for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan December 27, 1979.
“I think your account of the Russian motivation at the time of the invasion and afterwards strikes me as being quite authentic. Prime minister Kosygin didn’t vote for the intervention. He had his doubts and he was absent from the meeting.” — Charles Cogan at the Cambridge Forum, February 4, 2009. Cogan was Chief of the Near East-South Asia Division in the Operations Directorate of the CIA from 1979 to 1984. He is now at the Kennedy School.
We were on Book TV on C-Span2
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009You can watch our interview at Back Pages Books, Waltham, MA hosted by Alex Green on Book TV on CSpan2
Monday, March 9th, 2009
The New American Cold War
By Stephen F. Cohen The Nation June 21, 2006
US policy has fostered the belief that the American cold war was never really aimed at Soviet Communism but always at Russia, a suspicion given credence by Post and Times columnists who characterize Russia even after Communism as an inherently “autocratic state” with “brutish instincts.”
