Table of Contents

Preface.  Abbreviations for Printed Sources.  Abbreviated Designations.  List of Persons.  Document Summaries  1. 7 December 1979- 1 December 1981  2. 17 December 1981-9 December 1982.  Appendix JIC(80)(N) 4: Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan-An Interim Assessment, 10 January 1980 

About the Author

Richard Smith is a Senior Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Stephen Twigge is a Principal Record Specialist at the National Archives, Kew, and a former Senior Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.