id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9341 Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia .html text/html 26025 3058 66 Potential explanations for this vary; some believe that the CIA was caught off guard, while others suggest that American policy-makers viewed an internal crackdown as preferable to an "inevitable Soviet intervention."[159] CIA support for Solidarity included money, equipment and training, which was coordinated by Special Operations CIA division.[160] Henry Hyde, U.S. House intelligence committee member, stated that USA provided "supplies and technical assistance in terms of clandestine newspapers, broadcasting, propaganda, money, organizational help and advice".[161] Michael Reisman from Yale Law School named operations in Poland as one of the covert actions of CIA during Cold War.[162] Initial funds for covert actions by CIA were $2 million, but soon after authorization was increased and by 1985 CIA successfully infiltrated Poland[163] Rainer Thiel in Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980–1989 mentions how covert operations by CIA and spy games among others allowed USA to proceed with successful regime change.[164] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9341.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9341.txt