Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Reuters
Turns Out British Spies Were Giving Bags of Cash to Karzai, Too -- The Atlantic
A week after we learned that the CIA delivered bags full of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in exchange for his cooperation, the United Kingdom's MI6 admitted to doing the same thing this weekend. While the British spies say they forked over just a fraction of what their American counterparts did, the new information proves that this quasi-bribery scheme was hardly an isolated incident. In fact, it sounds like it was a big part of the allies' operation in Afghanistan. This so-called "ghost money" was evidently a big part of Karzai's peacekeeping strategy, however. The leader called the CIA and MI6 contributions an "easy source of petty cash" for dealing with the Taliban.
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More News On MI6 Admitting Giving Cash Payments To Afghan President Karzai
MI6 'handing bundles of cash to Hamid Karzai' -- The Telegraph
MI6 ‘ghost money’ sent to Hamid Karzai amid massive Afghan corruption -- RT
MI6 admits ‘bundles’ of cash handed out to Afghan leadership -- Voice of Russia
My Comment: I suspect that the CIA and MI6 are not the only ones who are giving money to President Karzai.
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