So, I've learned over the years to take things I see on this site with a grain of salt because they're comedians, not historians etc etc. Particularly photoplasies which contain no citations, such as this one posted today about the CIA training Osama bin Laden and basically creating his entire al-Qaeda network. I've heard about efforts to train forces to fight the Soviets during the Cold War who later turned into the insurgents America is fighting today, so unless that turns out to be false or inaccurate my question doesn't concern those details as much. Although I am curious how accurate that $3bn figure is and how valid it is to conclude that the CIA "created bin Laden's al-Qaeda network."

What I come to /r/askhistorians today for specifically, is to ask are there any remotely credible historians who believe (or at least have some amount of evidence that may suggest) that these forces were trained with the knowledge that they would eventually become hostile to the United States and that this was intended to give the United States a justification to become more heavily involved in the Middle East militarily? (That question sort of turned into a statement at the end so pardon me if that question mark is confusing)

I realize this question may be straying into the often-bashed "Conspiracy Theory" territory, so I just want to clear a few things up on that front. First of all, I'm not trying to tie this in the 9/11 whatsoever. I do not believe 9/11 was an inside job, and I especially do not believe that it has been planned and formulated since the Cold War and kept a secret all this time so I would rather that discussion not happen.