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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. In 1993. the CIA was warned by the State Department envoy in Central Asia that the policy of allowing the Afghans to find their own solution achieved what?

2. By 1996, Massoud's popularity stood where?

3. Yosef and his associates also had plans to hijack a plane and crash it where?

4. Most embassy personnel in Islamabad awaited military dictator Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq's help, but he was doing what?

5. When was the ISI captured and sold a Russian SU-25 to the CIA?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Peter Tomsen's role differ when he took over the position Ed McWilliams held in late 1989?

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

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

5. Where were Schroen's assignments in the decade subsequent to the embassy riots in Islamabad in 1979?

6. How was Abdul Haq introduced?

7. How did Chapter 1 open for William Putscher?

8. What were the major concerns of the U.S. embassy at Kabul in early 1988?

9. Why did the CIA Islamabad station hold a cautious view of Massoud as related in Chapter 8?

10. How was Yuri Andropov introduced in Ghost Wars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the new crop of terrorists that American intelligence recognized had emerged by mid-1995?

Essay Topic 2

What was the Hekmatyar-Tanai coup attempt? Does the evidence indicate bin Laden's involvement was as a semi-official Saudi intelligence liaison or an independent?

Essay Topic 3

What was the new secret two-track policy Peter Tomsen finalized toward the Afghan war subsequent to the Soviet troop withdrawal?

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