The Secret War in AfghanistanThe Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist Leninist government, and the subsequent nine year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion, only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, have long remained unclear; it is a confidential narrative of clandestine correspondence,