«As the president was jogging on February 12, 1980, his press secretary,
Jody Powell, interrupted his run to tell him that the
Washington Post had a story in the works about the CIA's operation to feed arms to the mujahideen rebels through Pakistan. In short, less than a month after the first arms arrived in
Karachi, the secret was about to be published by the media. As Carter noted, the Pakistanis 'would be highly embarrassed.' Secretary Vance appealed to the
Post to hold the story, but it ran a few days later, watered down a bit.»
