MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001700030002-0
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 2, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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No. 0850/75
September 2, 1975
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Afghanistan: Daoud Whittling Down
Leftist Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
September 2, 1975
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Afghanistan
Daoud Whittling Down Leftist Influence
President Daoud continues gradually to
reduce the influence of leftists in the Afghan
government. In recent weeks, he has reportedly
removed several high officials alleged to be
left-wingers, including two provincial governors and
the director-general of public health services. There
is an unconfirmed report-that the leftist commander
of Daoud's palace guard has also been dismissed.
Afghan leftists, although relatively few ..
in number,.were given a significant role in the
government after Daoud was restored to power two
years ago in a coup led by left-wing military
officers. Many of the leftist officials were
said to be affiliated with the "Parcham" ("Banner"),
an amorphous, Moscow-oriented communist political
grouping. A few months after the coup, Daoud, who
is primarily a nationalist, began quietly to dismiss
some of the leftists. Recentl he has grown even
more distrustful of them,
he is suspicious of the left's
ies to the USSR and is uneasy about its relative
Icohesiveness in a country in which no formal political
Lparties are permitted. A number of leftists
remain in influential jobs, but Daoud and other
Afghan officials who sense his mood appear intent
on further reducing their power.
Daoud's distrust of pro-Soviet domestic
elements, together with his belief that the Soviet
Union gives ideological indoctrination to Afghan
students and military officers trained there, has
caused him to become irritated with the Soviets,
He is unlikely,
er, to let these irritants damage Kabul's
good relations with Moscow, which stem from the Soviet
Union's geographical proximity and Afghanistan's
long-standing dependence on Soviet military and
economic aid. This dependence on Moscow.also has
kept Daoud from moving more rapidly and harshly
against: leftists at home. (SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM/
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