Google *Robert M. Gates*..current C.I.A. director, of 'Iran-Contra' fame.

According to Micheal Scheuer, head of the C.I.A's first bin Laden unit, from 1980-1989, about $600 million U.S. was passed thru bin Ladens charity fronts.
Most of it goes through the charity front Maktab al- Khidmant, also known as Al-Kifah.
The money generally comes from donor's in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and is used to arm and supply the mujaheddin Fighting in Afghanistan.
Mohammed Yousaf, a high ranking ISI official, will later say, "It was largely Arab money that saved the system",since so much of the aid given by the C.I.A. and Saudi Arabia was siphoned away before it got to Afghnistan. "By this I mean cash from rich individual's or private organisations in the Arab world, not Saudi Government funds. Without those extra millions the flow of arms getting to the mujaheddin would have been cut to a trickle"
Future C.I.A. directer Robert M. Gates will later claim that in 1985 and 1986, the C.I.A. became aware of Arabs assisting and fighting with the Afghan mujaheddin, and the C.I.A. "examined ways to increase participation, perhaps in the form of some sort of 'international brigade', but nothing came of it".

However, a C.I.A official involved in the Afghan War will later claim that the C.I.A. directly funded (MAK).

Sounds to me like Mr. Gates is dirty now, just as he has always been throughout his career.

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