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Let's be kind.

Poor old Adam - still hasn't worked out the connections between the CIA and US universities, or, more crucially still, the Agency's role in the creation of the New Left. (Or is that his function is to miss such connections?) What ensues is a predictable and throroughly characteristic mess:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/20...art_4.html

Kabul: City Number One - Part 4

He also has a remarkably shallow grasp of Soviet politics, most obviously of the 1970s and 1980s. Andropov as the driving force for Moscow's intervention in Afghanistan is a case in point - more than meets the eye to that one, Adam.