mr. schifrin. >> reporter: let's start at the beginning in 1979.ade afghanistan and the carter administration decides to fund the mujahedeen, the afghan fighters who would fight the soviet union. there's a formal decision by the middle of 1980 for saudi arabia to essentially split the cost with the united states and have the pakistani intelligence service, the i.s.i., funnel weapons to the mujahideen. you were, of course, in the middle of that effort. how did it work? >> the recipients were picked on their ability to harm the soviets, basically. i would say that on the issue of i would say that on the issue of afghanistan, from 1979 until i left the intelligence department in 2001, there was, if you like, a good war. and then there was a bad war. the good war is when we got the soviets out, jointly. but once that happened, you know, the united states, basically, and the other countries in the world turned their back on afghanistan. and unfortunately, the mujahideen that had worked so well together to get the soviets out, they began to fight each ot