Found this interesting. The CIA has been paying the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in cash during much of the ongoing conflict between the two countries. The article discusses how tens of millions of US dollars have been dropped of to the Presidents office in plastic bags, back packs, and suit cases as a means of ensuring the US's ability to maintain relations with the Presidents inner circle. Furthermore the article quotes one American official "The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan is the US". Apparently this has been going on with for close to or a little over a decade. The money, which President Karzais old chief of staff calls "ghost money", has been key means of funding various warlords and various acts of corruption in the Afghan government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/world/asia/cia-delivers-cash-to-afghan-leaders-office.html?_r=0
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