had never seen these great interviews paul jay did with brzezinski. in particular here jay confronts brzezinski about the july 79 finding carter signed which allowed for funding for the mujahideen. the way zbigniew weasels his way around it is fascinating
what i found particularly interesting is that he got brzezinski to admit that the cash assistance authorized by carter at that time, i.e. before what brzezinski calls the USSR's "formal invasion," was presumably going to weapons, despite the fact that this was not authorized 
robert gates revealed in his book "from the shadows," carter's CIA director turner provided further support to the mujahideen in august 79 (again, before the "formal invasion"), including directly providing "lethal equipment ourselves for the pakistanis to distribute"
it seems, based on brzezinski's comments that the mujahideen were using the cash aid "mostly for the acquisition, presumably, of weapons" that this CIA supplying of military aid, not authorized by carter, was probably tacitly understood and supported by the white house
just a fun bit of bureaucratic accountability evasion and plausible deniability
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