Afghanistan Relief Committee, Suite 4100, 345 Park Avenue, New York NY 10154,
Tel: 212-355-2931. Financial Statement, 1987. 6 pages.
The founders of the Afghanistan Relief Committee, which was established
in 1980, included all of the former American ambassadors to Afghanistan.
The CIA began arming the mujahaddin in 1979, eight months before the Soviet
invasion. By the mid-1980s ARC was sending medical supplies to Afghanistan
and lobbying for increased U.S. aid. In 1986 their budget was $300,000,
compared to less than $100,000 the previous year. Each of these years ARC
received about $50,000 from the National Endowment for Democracy to provide
aid to Afghanistan schools.
The president of ARC was John Train, a Wall Street investment counselor
whose name surfaces in other spooky situations (see the annotation under
"Quinde,H."). The ARC offices were in a building occupied by his investment
company (Train, Smith Counsel), which donated telephone, printing, and
accounting services. Train did not accept any personal compensation from
ARC; he probably didn't need it. ARC's letterhead is studded with the names
of senators, representatives, and ambassadors.
Extract the names from this source
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