Word: afghanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial Boston University journalism program to train Afghan rebels was part of a covert CIA propaganda effort, according to a published report this week...
...report, which appeared in the Boston Globe, says that the B.U. College of Communications got federal funds for a program to teach journalistic skills to Afghan freedom fighters. The program, which touched off faculty resignations at the school, was quashed after being criticized for violating press ethics...
...purpose of the program, according to Joe O'Connell, a spokesman for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), was "to train Afghans in journalism. We thought there was a problem. The Afghan people had no way to tell the story of Soviet occupation," said O'Connell. "We wanted to help them do it for themselves," he said...
...Afghan Project...
...asked the Afghan government to cease its violations of Pakistan's air space with war plane overfights and air raids on guerrilla camps...