TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snegirev, Vladimir
AU  - Samunin, Valery
TI  - The dead end: the road to Afghanistan 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - [Washington, DC]
PB  - [National Security Archive]
KW  - USSR
KW  - military interventions
KW  - war
KW  - Afghanistan
N1  - SIP1211; Russian original: Virus A : how we got infected by the invasion of Afghanistan; Washington, DC, October 13, 2012 – Contrary to U.S. myths of a strategic Soviet offensive towards warm water ports on the Persian Gulf or Indian Ocean, it was "mission creep" that led the Soviet Union into its ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, according to a new, richly documented account of early Soviet engagement in Afghanistan, published in English and in Russian today by the National Security Archive.
The groundbreaking book by two Russian authors - the historian and journalist Vladimir Snegirev and the veteran of Soviet foreign intelligence Valery Samunin - appears today in English under the title The Dead End: The Road to Afghanistan, together with 21 key documents from the National Security Archive's collection of Soviet and U.S. secret files on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and seven historic photographs from the period immediately before the invasion
UR  - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB396/Full%20Text%20Virus%20A.pdf
ER  -