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  1. THE SOVIETS AND THE TRIBES OF SOUTHWEST ASIA (U)

    in Afghanistan and neighboring areas of Iran and Pakistan. Most are loosely organized with little or no central ... laborers or even physicians and lawyers. 25T1 Tribes in Afghanistan Tribal loyalties have more importance ... among the Pushtun of eastern and southern Afghanistan than among most of the other ethnic groups. Among ...

  2. SOVIET CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST PAKISTAN

    area to Afghanistan. The Soviets have also begun to develop separate contingency plans for a large ... and a need to rehearse procedures for mobilizing and preparing the 40th Army in Afghanistan for a large war ... into Pakistan would be much more costly for the Soviets than their invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviets sent ...

  3. STAFF MEETING MINUTES OF 13 FEBRUARY 1980

    including problems created by the Soviet use of Afghanistan military before using Soviet troops.--McMahon ... in the Afghanistan situation, 2) intelligence on Soviet activities in the Transcaucasus area, and 3) an agreed upon ... number within the intelligence community of Soviet troops in the Afghanistan area. Relatedly, Clarke ...

  4. PUSHTUNISTAN

    "PUSHTUNISTAN't=1 1, The "Pushtunistan" quarrel between Pakistan and This unlikely- Afghanistan ... The quarrel centers on Afghanistan's insistence that the six million Pushtuns (Pathans) who live ... in Afghanistan? are being oppressed by Pakistan and should be given an opportunity to opt for an independent state ...

  5. AFGHAN EXILE GROUPS BASED IN PAKISTAN

    Fragmentary reporting suggests they have provided insurgent groups in.eastern Afghanistan with some material ... Afghanistan occasionally to buoy the morale of insurgent tribes res- ponsive to their religious leadership. ... over guerrilla groups operating in Afghanistan. Other accounts have made exaggerated claims of rebel ...

  6. PAKISTAN QUESTIONS US DESIRE FOR AFGHAN SETTLEMENT

    settlement of the war in Afghanistan. "It either portends total American insensitivity," said ... in Afghanistan and Paki- stan. And it appears that both sides- essentially the Soviets and the Pakistanis- ... of Afghanistan. rrwo leading Afghan rebel.leaders have denounced the UN-sponsored talks, according to Reuters. ...

  7. INSURGENCIES: TWO OF A KIND

    APPEARM ON PAGE,._.. Insurgencies: Two ol a Kind The U.S.-backed rebels in Afghanistan are having almost ... in Afghanistan. In Washing- ton the conventional wisdom has it that the Afghan guerrillas are a splendid success, ... despite the 118,000 Soviet troops arrayed against them. Moscow seems to want out of Afghanistan ...

  8. AFGHANS CONTINUE FIERCE FIGHTING

    hwans Continue.+ erce Filth- hg By Robert H. Reid As.ociated Press KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 2-So- viet ... from Moscow, Vietnam and Cuba to root out "all enemies" of his- gov- ernment, Radio Afghanistan ... few who have entered- Afghanistan-have been barred from.. going be. the, capital city- Offi cials deported ...

  9. FOREIGN ARMS AID AFGHANS INSURGENCY

    BORDER-In the months immediately following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan three years ago, ... escalation that:iis marked the war in Afghanistan over she past three years.;The arms supply from abroad also ... that it will tay in Afghanistan until all outside in-.erference ceases. 'The supply line can be seen ...

  10. SOVIET MILITARY PRESSURE ON PAKISTAN

    outposts or t~ interdict guerrilla supply lines from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Airspace viol ati ons ... with Pakistan that ~trikps without strengtheni ng their air force i n Afghanistan. ~~ 25X1 ~~ ~~x~i I n addi ti ... routes into Afghanistan and to relocate training camps and depots, but would have 1 i ttl e overal ...

  11. 24 JULY 1986 HPSCI BRIEFING

    Hamilton, Brown, Daniel, Dwyer, Kastenmeier, McHugh, Stump, Ireland, Hyde USSR/Afghanistan: Gorbachev ... Statement on Troop Withdrawal Afghanistan: Bolivia: Nicaragua: Israel/Morocco: Sudan: Questions/Answers ... 29 July 1986 HPSCI Briefing withdraw shows that Gorbachev is the Afghanistan situation and the Soviet ...

  12. AUTHOR TELLS ABOUT LIFE AS 'DIPLOMAT'

    lvo> vnrr ~qn+-Afghanistan with the United States Information Service, the rumors began circulating ... was boycotted by the Affhans for months because of the suspicion that he was a CIA agent. But, in- Afghanistan ... the Afghans post of Afghanistan in her.iirat book, about the United States. And that, she "Spies Behind ...

  13. NEW SOVIET AFGHAN BASES SEEN AS PERIL TO GULF

    diplomats say the Soviet Union has nearly completed six airfields In southern Afghanistan that will put ... underscored a vitally imnnr. tant addition to the mission of Soviet-forces in Afghanistan. When the Soviet ... intent on turn. ing Afghanistan into a forward base for Soviet military forces, particularly air force ...

  14. AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS ABROAD AID CIA

    Molnar, who is currently. supervising field work in Afghanistan, indicated he would not cooperate ... seismological data in.-Afghanistan, and he-"and- members of his research group. have been stationed ... in areas of-- that country close to the Soviet- Union.. A reputedly left-Wing coup in:-.Afghanistan ...

  15. MAPS FOR SITUATION REPORTS- STATUS AS OF 16 AUGUST 1948

    Afghanistan: Terrain & Transportation Reproduction 10945- Afghanistan: Ethnic Groups and Language Groups ... 10946- Afghanistan: Population Density 1094?- Afghanistan: Mineral Resources 't 1094$- Afghanistan ... : Natural Resources tt 10949- Afghanistan: Industrial Development SR-33 YUGOSLAVIA 10914- Yugoslavia: ...

  16. EGYPTIANS, AFGHANS OPPOSE U.S. POLICIES

    in the communique. it is that it was issued by Egypt and Afghanistan Egypt is the liberation force in the Arab East, ... "positive neutrality" has come to mean Communism in the view of the Americans,, Afghanistan is a state ... Afghanistan had faith in her independence.. and positive neutrality,. The years have passed and the Soviet ...

  17. MONTHLY FORECAST AND WARNING REPORT-- USSR

    Forecast and Warning Report-- USSR 1. The Soviet Dilemma in Afghanistan: A. Discussion After five years ... in Afghanistan the Soviets have made little progress against the insurgents, and the Babrak Karmal regime remains ... acknowledge all this and more: we have steady reports of Soviet military morale problems in Afghanistan ...

  18. SOVIET TELLS OF AFGHAN EXPULSION OF U.S. DIPLOMAT

    weeks ago from Afghanistan was snared in a counterin- telligence operation that had been sending bogus ... information about Af- ghanistan to the Central Intelligence Agency. When Afghanistan announced. on April 11 ... valuable in- formation about Afghanistan's guer- rilla war, the movements of its leaders ...

  19. THE DIFFICULT ART OF COUNTERINSURGENCY ELUDES THE RUSSIANS

    WASHINGTON THE Soviet armed forces, which have been fight- ing longer in Afghanistan than they did in World ... perhaps the Russians' most important decision in Afghanistan has been to resist the temptation ... known as Stingers to rebels fighting in Afghanistan and Angola. The decision also worries some Western ...

  20. THE KGB'S DEADLY WEAPONS

    not be farfetched. The Soviets have tested and perfected.bombs that look like toys in Afghanistan, umbrella-fired ... Afghanistan and to watch the new gun in action against Afghan guerrillas. The Indians declined. For nearly ... five years now, Afghanistan has been the Soviet military's bloody proving ground. Except ...

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