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...Directorate S, "which controls "illegals," Soviet-born agents abroad. In an exclusive interview in London last week with TIME's Frank Melville, Kuzichkin said: 1) Brezhnev himself overruled repeated advice from Yuri Andropov's KGB not to turn Afghanistan into a Soviet satellite, 2) Afghan President Babrak Karmal is a KGB agent of long standing, 3) Karmal's predecessor was murdered in his palace by a specially trained, KGB-led Soviet assault group. Kuzichkin's account...
...Dost, 52, is a remarkable study in survival. He has been a career diplomat for 25 years, serving King Zahir until he was deposed in 1973, Mohammed Daoud, who was overthrown and killed in 1978, and then a succession of three Communist leaders, Nur Mohammed Taraki, Amin and now Karmal...
...other backers of the mujahedin, Karmal claims, are not really interested in a Soviet pullout: "The forces of hegemonism and imperialism do not want the contingent to withdraw. Why? Because for them the continued presence here of our friends is a pretext that they can exploit against the Soviet Union...
Asked if he or his government disagreed in any way on any issue with the Soviet Union, Karmal answered firmly, "No, not the slightest one." But he insisted that the coincidence of interests does not mean he is a puppet, nor does it make Afghanistan any less sovereign: "There is no power in the world that can crush the spirit of freedom of the Afghan people. It is in our nature to be free and to fight for our freedom...
Prune Minister Sultan Ali Keshtmand, 47, is the No. 2 man in the regime, having recently taken over the prime ministership from Karmal. He is a longtime Communist and a mem ber of the pro-Soviet faction that gained dominance after the invasion...