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CIA Fight Against Communism Bolsters Radical Islam
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127500908&f=1002&sc=igg2

by NPR Staff

June 5, 2010

The CIA's determination to roll back communism during the Cold War inadvertently allowed radical Islamists to gain a foothold in Europe, according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Johnson.

A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West details the Nazis' attempts to create a fifth column within the Soviet empire by becoming allies with Muslim minorities living in the Soviet Union.
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