{"id":84794,"date":"2013-04-30T04:04:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T22:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=84794"},"modified":"2013-04-30T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T22:40:22","slug":"cia-and-mi6-ghost-money-and-afghan-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cia-and-mi6-ghost-money-and-afghan-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA And MI6 Ghost Money And Afghan Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CIA and MI6 ghost money may fuel Afghan corruption, say diplomats, the Guardian reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on CIA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/cia\">CIA<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on MI6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/mi6\">MI6<\/a>\u00a0have regularly given large cash payments to\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Hamid Karzai\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/hamid-karzai\">Hamid Karzai<\/a>&#8216;s office with the aim of maintaining access to the Afghan leader and his top allies and officials, but the attempt to buy influence has largely failed and may have backfired, former diplomats and policy analysts say.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"Article:standfirst_cta\">Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/apr\/29\/cia-mi6-afghan-corruption\">the Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-component=\"Article:standfirst_cta\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":84795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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