Favoured by KGB 60
Inadequacies of 241
KGB brings into plan against Amin 60
Russians decide he must go 274
Secretly flown into Bagram 83
Shocked to hear Soviets intend to pull out 272
Systematically purges officers 136
Karpenko Alexander, bard and military interpreter 193
Kartsev Lieutenant Alexander 126–7, 130, 180, 183, 238
Karzai Hamid (1957-), President of Afghanistan 139
Kaskadery, ‘stuntmen’—KGB special forces officers 134
Katichev Stanislav, senior military adviser in Herat 45
KGB
Finally abandons Kabul 299
KGB frontier post attacked in Tajikistan 306
Long experience in Afghanistan 60
Memorandum proposes action against Amin 59
KGB advisers 93
Khabarov Captain—Bitterness over futility of war 223
KhAD, Afghan secret intelligence agency 134–5, 137–9, 182–3, 194, 275, 298
Respected by KGB 202
Successfully penetrate mujahedin 139
Khaibar Mir Akbar, party ideologist, murdered 40
Khalbaev Major, commander of Muslim Battalion 56, 63, 90–91, 93
Khalil General, Afghan intelligence chief, arrested as spy 139
Khalq, faction in Afghan Communist Party 31, 38–43, 58, 60, 104, 275
Khanif, Afghan youth organiser 163
Khiva, Central Asian city 18–19, 22, 24
Khoroshavin Alexander, soldier in 860th Regiment 158
Khost. Afghan city 151, 165, 204, 213–15
Falls to mujaheddin 299
Khrushchev Nikita (1894–1971), Soviet politician 30, 33, 78, 113
Khyber Pass 129
Kipling Rudyard (1865–1936) 12, 134, 192, 227
Kirpichenko General, KGB 82, 105
Kirsanov Yuri, KGB officer, bard 193
Kiselev Yevgeni, interpreter, later TV anchorman 83, 153–4, 208
Kissinger Henry (1923–), US Secretary of State 30
Klimov Sergei, bard 193, 312
Klintsevich, Frants, veteran, politician 317–18, 327–8
Kokand, Central Asian city 22
Kolesnik (Kozlov) Colonel, GRU staff officer 63, 90–94, 96, 102
Komissarov Nikolai, Komsomol youth organiser 166
Komsomol, Soviet Young Communist League 150, 152–3, 162, 165, 244, 259, 316
Konovalov Captain Yevgeni, officer in 860th Regiment 180, 300–301
Koshelev Vladimir, bard 312
Kosogovski General, Chief Interior Ministry adviser 74, 228
Kostenko General, adviser to Afghan Chief of Staff 100–101
Kosygin Aleksei (1904–80), Soviet prime minister 46–7, 49–52, 104
Tells Afghans Soviets won’t send troops 7
Kotenov Alexander, sets up veterans’ organisation 317
Kotlyarovskoe Cemetery, Moscow 317
Kovalev. Anatoli, Soviet deputy foreign minister 278
Kozyrev, Andrei, Russian foreign minister, visits Pakistan 258
Kravchenko Colonel, court-martialled for shooting prisoners 229
Kretenin Captain, killed in ambush 209
Krivenko Vitali, Soviet soldier 1, 171–2, 230, 250, 252–3, 320
Kryuchkov Vladimir(1924–2007), Chairman of KGB 1988–91 81, 90, 95, 116, 272, 282, 287, 289
Discusses Islam with Taraki 42
Discusses plan for coup against Gorbachev 311
Explains background to invasion to Congress, 1989 80
Favours Najibullah 275
Persuades Karmal to resign 274
Kulabe, town in Tajikistan 305
Kulazhenko Gena, youth worker, murdered 165
Kunduz, Afghan city 87, 194, 258
Kurgan-Tobe, town in Tajikistan 305
Kurilov Valeri, Soviet officer helps rescue ‘Gang of Four’ 69
Kushka, Soviet city, formerly Pandjeh 162, 283
A good source of vodka 162
Kutepov Yuri, KGB security adviser to Amin’s guard 93
Kutsenko General Viktor, bard 138, 312
Kuzmina Tatiana, Soviet nurse 156
Kuzminskoe Cemetery 213
Kuznechkov Colonel, military doctor killed in storming of Amin’s palace 95, 98–9
Kuznetsov Andrei, soldier
Returns to Afghanistan as a tourist 334
Lagoshin General, last Chief Soviet Military Adviser in Afghanistan 301
Lakhovich Igor, last solider to be killed 290
Lapis lazuli mines, source of income for Masud 216, 287
Latif Dr Lutfullah, imprisoned in Pul-i Charkhi 104, 106
Lee Enfield, effective but old-fashioned British rifle 202
Levchishin Sergei, participant in Badaber rising 269
Lilya, Soviet typist 156
Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in Afghanistan 84, 194, 267
Logar, Afghan province 162, 233
Long range bombers 7, 123, 143, 202, 216, 219, 223, 272, 284, 289
Lunin Alexander, chief adviser to Polytechnic rector 148
Lyakhovski Alexander (1946–2009), Soviet general 37, 242
