Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore what happened to the world in relation to terrorism after the fall of the USSR and examine if CIA and KGB operations contributed to terrorism. When the world was in a bipolar state and lost a superpower, the void would normally be replaced by another state or the world would turn multipolar. Rarely has the world been unipolar and that was only achieved by military campaigns aimed at conquering the world. Though the US did not conquer the world like the Romans, the US did use its covert operatives in a secret war against the USSR and their operatives. The world was transformed into a secret battlefield and the normal turmoil that would ensue from regime changes in the Middle-East was forever altered by clandestine operations. Secret wars gave birth to secret insurgencies and secret counterinsurgencies. When the Soviets fell, something had to replace them. This paper highlights one country dominated by the KGB, another by the CIA, and a third less tarnished, in hopes of examining the secret void from secret wars that may have given rise to terrorism. The US may not have to worry about terrorists if it did not engage the KGB and acted the way it did in the Middle East.