"On July 3, 1979, the White House secretly authorised $500 million in arms and logistics to support tribal "fundamentalist
groups known as the mujaheddin. The aim was the overthrow of
Afghanistan's first secular, reformist government. In August 1979, the
US embassy in Kabul reported that "the United States' larger
interests... would be served by the demise of [the PDPA government],
despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic
reforms in Afghanistan." The italics are mine."