U.S. officials said the CIA has trained and equipped nearly 10,000 fighters sent into Syria over the past several years — meaning that the agency is spending roughly $100,000 per year for every anti-Assad rebel who has gone through the program.
A CIA program to train and arm Syrian rebels is one of the agency's largest covert operations, with a budget approaching $1 billion a year
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