CIA Fight Against Communism Bolsters Radical Islam - NPR

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.

After the war, the CIA and West German intelligence operatives, many of them former Nazis, took over the project.

Johnson says the CIA was looking for Muslims who could go into the Third World and speak credibly to counter Soviet propaganda. The Islamic Center of Munich had become the center for the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany and to some extent in Europe.

"The CIA set up a large covert propaganda operation in Munich and recruited many of these people," Johnson says. ..... Listen to the Story

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