The Soviet Union and Afghanistan – CWIHP BULLETIN Documents
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Excerpts from

BULLETIN 3 (Fall 1993)

Soviet Policy in Afghanistan, 1979: A Grim Assessment (8-10)

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BULLETIN 4 (Fall 1994)

• From Hesitation to Intervention: Soviet Decisions on Afghanistan, 1979 (12-13)
• Record of Meeting of A.N. Kosygin, A.A. Gromyko, D.F. Ustinov and B.N. Ponomaryov With N.M. Taraki (13-15)
• Record of Conversation Brezhnev-Taraki, 20 March 1979 (15-16)
• Soviet Helicopters to Afghanistan, April 1979 (16-17)

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BULLETIN 8/9 (Winter 1996-1997)

• CPSU CC Politburo Decision, 1 February 1980, with telegrams to Soviet Ambassador, To West Germany (Willy Brandt) and Finnish Socialist Democratic leader K. Sorsa (not printed) (20-23)
• Concerning the situation in “A”: New Russian Evidence on the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan by Odd Arne Westad (18-22)

1978

• Political Letter from USSR Ambassador to Afghanistan A. Puzanov to Soviet Foreign Ministry (28) “About the Domestic Political Situation in the DRA,” 31 May 1978 (notes);
• Record of Conversation, Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, 18 June 1978 (29)
• Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan (29), A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, 18 July 1978
• Information from CPSU CC to GDR leader Erich Honecker, 13 October 1978 (29-31)

1979

• CPSU CC Politburo Decision on Afghanistan, 7 January 1979 (31)
• Transcript of CPSU CC Politburo Discussions on Afghanistan, 17-19 March 1979 (31-40)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decisions on Afghanistan, 18 March 1979 (40)
• Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin (40-41) and Afghan Prime Minister Nur Mohammed Taraki, 17 or 18 March 1979
• Meeting of Kosygin, Gromyko, Ustinov, and Ponomaryov with Taraki in Moscow, 20 March 1979 (41-45)
• Transcript of CPSU CC Politburo Session on Afghanistan, 22 March 1979 (45-46)
• Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan (46) A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, 22 March 1979
• Report of the chief of the Soviet military advisory group in Afghanistan (46) Lt. Gen. L.N. Gorelov, with H. Amin, 14 April 1979 (excerpt)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision and Instruction to Soviet Ambassador in Afghanistan, 24 May 1979 (47)
• Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, 9 June 1979 (47)
• Gromyko -Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomaryov Report to CPSU CC on the Situation in Afghanistan, 28 June 1979 (47-48)
• Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, 10 July 1979 (48)
• Boris Ponomaryov, Reports from Kabul, 19-20 July 1979 (excerpts)
• Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan A.M. Puzanov and H. Amin, 21 July 1979 (48)
• Conversation of the chief of the Soviet military advisory group in Afghanistan Lt. Gen. Gorelov, with H. Amin, 11 August 1979 (48-49)
• Report from Soviet Deputy Defence Minister Army Gen. Ivan Pavlovskii during visit to Afghanistan, 25 August 1979 (49)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decisions on Afghanistan, 13 September 1979 (excerpts) (49)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision 15 September 1979, with report by Gromyko, Ustinov, and Tsvigun (49-50)
• Cable from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to Soviet Representatives in Kabul, 15 September 1979 (50)
• Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader E. Honecker, 16 September 1979 (50)
• Excerpt from transcript, CPSU CC Politburo meeting, 20 September 1979 (51)
• Excerpt from transcript, Meeting of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Afghan Foreign Minister Shah-Valih, New York, 27 September 1979 (excerpt) (51)
• Information from the CC CPSU to GDR leader Honecker, 1 October 1979 (51)
• Transcript of Brezhnev-Honecker summit in East Berlin 4 October 1979 (excerpt on Iran and Afghanistan) (51-52)
• Information of KGB USSR to CC CPSU International Department, 10 October 1979 (52)
• Gromyko -Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomaryov Report to CPSU CC, 29 October 1979 (52-53)
• Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador Puzanov and Amin, 3 November 1979 (53)
• Soviet Defence Minister Ustinov, Report to CPSU CC on Mission to Afghanistan of Deputy Defence Minister Army -Gen. I. G. Pavlovskii, 5 November 1979 (53)
• Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan F.A. Tabeyev and H. Amin 6 December 1979: Extract from CPSU CC Politburo Decision, 6 December 1979 (53)
• Personal memorandum, Andropov to Brezhnev, n.d. early December 1979
• Andropov-Gromyko -Ustinov-Ponomaryov Report on Events in Afghanistan on 27-28 December 1979 (55-56) dated 31 December 1979

1980

• Meeting of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Afghan Foreign Minister Shad Mohammad Dost (56-57) 4 January 1980
• CC CPSU Politburo transcript, 17 January 1980 (excerpt) (57-58)
• CPSU CC Politburo decision, 17 January 1980 (58)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision, 28 January 1980, with Report by (58-60) Gromyko -Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomaryov, 27 January 1980)
• Andropov Report to CPSU CC on Talks with Afghan Leaders, 5 February 1980 (60)
• CC CPSU Politburo transcript, 7 February 1980 (excerpt) (60-61)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decisions on Afghanistan, 7 February 1980 (61-62)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision on Soviet Policy on Afghanistan, 10 March 1980 (62-65) with report on Proposal by Fidel Castro to Mediate between Afghanistan and Pakistan and approved letter from L.I. Brezhnev to Fidel Castro
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision on Afghanistan, 10 April 1980 (65-67) with report by Gromyko -Andropov-Ustinov-Zagladin, 7 April 1980
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision, 8 May 1980, with Politburo Commission Report (67-69)
• 6 May 1980, and Approved Cable to Soviet Ambassador in Kabul; CPSU CC Politburo decisions, 19 June 1980 (69)
• Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker, 21 June 1980 (69-70)
• CC CPSU Plenum, 23 June 1980 (excerpt) (70-71)
• Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker, 18 July 1980 (71)
• Report by Soviet Defence Minister Ustinov to CPSU CC (71-72) “Foreign Interference” in Afghanistan, 2 October 1980

1983-1989

• CPSU CC Politburo transcript (excerpt), 10 March 1983 (72-73)
• CPSU CC Politburo Transcript (excerpt), 20 March 1986 (73)
• CPSU CC Politburo transcript (excerpt), 13 November 1986 (73-74)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision of 24 January 1989, with attached report of 23 January 1989 (75-79)
• CPSU CC Politburo Decision, 13 May 1989, with report by Zaikov-Shevardnadze-Yazov-Kryuchkov (79)

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