Original sentence: Amin is overthrown and killed in a coup backed by Soviet troops
Edited sentence: And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski will state in 1998, “According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the mujaheddin began… after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan… But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.Declassified Russian documents shows that the Russian leadership believed that Amin had secret contacts with the US embassy and was probably a US agent.Hafizullah Amin is overthrown and killed in a coup backed by Soviet troops.US president Jimmy Carter authorizes covert aid for opponents of the Communist government in Afghanistan.… We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would