Pol Pot
In 1998 former U.S. National Security Advisor (NSA) Zbigniew Brzezinski acknowledged that "I encourage[d] the Chinese to support Pol Pot ... we could never support him, but China could." However, Brzezinski subsequently stated: "The Chinese were aiding Pol Pot, but without any help or arrangement from the United States. Moreover, we told the Chinese explicitly that in our view Pol Pot was an abomination and that the United States would have nothing to do with him—directly or indirectly."