Casey tells Reagan the covert Afghan war is cost effective

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  Mujahedin warriors had killed or wounded about seventeen thousand Soviet soldiers to date, by the CIA’s classified estimate. They controlled 62 percent of the countryside and had become so effective that the Soviets would have to triple or quadruple their deployments in Afghanistan to put the rebellion down.

  chapter: 5. “Don’t Make It Our War”

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