NYT: CIA Delivers Bags Of Cash To Afghan President

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office has received millions of dollars from the CIA over the course of more than a decade, the New York Times reported on Sunday, noting that the cash has occasionally been placed in plastic bags.

From the report:

American and Afghan officials familiar with the payments said the agency’s main goal in providing the cash has been to maintain access to Mr. Karzai and his inner circle and to guarantee the agency’s influence at the presidential palace, which wields tremendous power in Afghanistan’s highly centralized government. The officials spoke about the money only on the condition of anonymity.

According to the report, the installments range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars.

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