01 Mar 2002

The KGB in Afghanistan: archival documents
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, USA
Supplied note: "Previously secret KGB materials on the Soviet war in Afghanistan [...], provided to CWIHP by defected KGB archivist Vasiliy Mitrokhin, present the first behind-the scene account at the three communist coups in Afghanistan in April 1978 and in September and December 1979. They also provide the first-ever inside account of the 1979 kidnapping and murder of the last US ambassador in Kabul, Adolph Dubs; chilling reports on the violent guerrilla deception campaigns, assassinations, sabotage and bribery carried out by the KGB in Afghanistan between 1978 and 1983; as well as new information on clandestine US-Soviet political contacts on Afghanistan in the 1980 presidential election campaign."
[The documents, which are freely accessible in PDF format, were placed online on 25 Feb 2002 - ed.]
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Link reported by: Christian Ostermann (ostermac@wwic.si.edu)
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