In a remarkable interview (video and transcript, below), former C.I.A. agent Henry (“Hank”) Crumpton reports on how he recruited Afghan collaborators (the offer being: co-operate or die) immediately after “9/11” and reveals the logic of why the U.S. is supporting an insurgency (by faux-Taliban, Baloch separatists, etc.) in Pakistan today (emphasis added):
“In Pakistan and elsewhere where you see enemy’s safe haven, where they are the power, where they are the status quo, we must be the insurgents. We must work and recruit with locals, and we must collect intelligence. We must engage in subversion and sabotage, and be very precise,” Crumpton added.
“If you were in your old job at the CIA, is that what you’d be doing right now?” Logan asked.
“Yes,” he replied.
“You would be inside Pakistan and have men on the ground in the tribal areas…building the exact kind of relationships that you built with the Afghans that helped defeat the Taliban?” Logan asked.
“Certainly. And I think, ultimately, that’s how you win this type of war. You have to empower the locals so they have the victory,” he replied.
Listen to the interview below, or read the transcript on the next page.
CBS | 60 Minutes | 27 December 2009
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