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March 22, 1979	Transcript of CPSU CC Politburo Session on Afghanistan
May 24, 1979	CPSU CC Protocol #152/159, 24 May 1979, and Instructions to Soviet Ambassador in Afghanistan CPSU CC Politburo protocol approving of additional military assistance for Afghanistan. Also includes instruction to the Soviet Ambassador in Afghanistan to visit Taraki and inform him that the Soviet Union will be sending military aid but no Soviet crews and troops
June 9, 1979	Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki about a possible meeting between Pakistan’s Zia-ul-Haq and Taraki
July 10, 1979	Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and Taraki discussing Afghanistan’s relations with Pakistan and Soviet aid to Afghanistan
July 21, 1979	Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan A.M. Puzanov and H. Amin Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan A.M. Puzanov and H. Amin in which Amin asks for Soviet troops to be flown in on helicopters and Puzanov reiterates that the Soviet Union cannot send in military personnel
December 27, 1979	Message to Soviet Ambassadors on the Invasion of Afghanistan, Attachment to CPSU Politburo Decree #177 The violent actions by the DRA, led by H. Amin, to de-stabilize the Afghan government, dissolving the gains made in the April Revolution, causes the Soviet Union to place military detachments in Afghanistan.
December 29, 1979	Excerpt from the Minutes of the CC CPSU Politburo Meeting, 'Reply to an appeal of President Carter about the issue of Afghanistan through the direct communications channel' Soviet letter to US President Jimmy Carter responding to the US position on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The CC CPSU Politburo informs the White House that the Soviet leadership desires to maintain detente with the US and that the intervention of Soviet troops was done at the request of the Afgan leadership, under Article 51 of the UN charter.
December 12, 1979	CC CPSU Politburo Resolution # 176/125, Concerning the Situation in "A" [Afghanistan] The decree is on the situation in Afghanistan.
December 29, 1979	CPSU CC Memo with Excerpt from Protocol #177/220, 29 December 1979 This memo includes the response of Brezhnev to President Carter's address concerning Afghanistan and US-Soviet relations.