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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Saudi intelligence used what type of charities to funnel money to Afghanistan?

2. The success of the CIA depended on Hart's ability to work with Akhtar due Rahman in developing what list?

3. The CIA and ISI planned another offensive to build the strength of Massoud and other rebel leaders that called for them to take Kabul in which winter?

4. Hart also met regularly with Akhtar due Rahman, who directed the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency known as what?

5. Who became the CIA station chief in Islamabad in July 1986?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the Panjshiris seen by 1994?

2. How had the city of Peshawar evolved by late 1986?

3. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

4. What was their response when Tomsen sought Saudi funding to reinforce his alternative "shura" composed of independent rebel Afghan commanders outside ISI control, but where Massoud held a strong role within the movement?

5. In the opening of Chapter 5, what did CIA director William Casey relay to President Ronald Reagan in January 1984?

6. What were some of the elements of Michael Pillsbury's goal in Afghanistan?

7. What joke quickly circulated about James Woolsey, the CIA director, being unable to get an appointment with Clinton?

8. How were the rebels trained to clear Soviet-laid minefields around Jalalabad?

9. How did the Prologue to Ghost Wars open?

10. How did Robert Gates view Bill Clinton when he flew to meet the president-elect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the cable draft that Timothy Carney found when he arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, in November 1996 that appalled him? What was ensured? What was the final outcome of that matter?

Essay Topic 2

What was the "hermetic culture" the FBI had become infamous for by the beginning 1990s? What problems did it cause?

Essay Topic 3

How did the Central Intelligence Agency shape the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s?

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