Operation Storm-333: The Secret Soviet Plot To Assassinate The Afghan President 

Four decades ago, the Soviet Union launched a secret mission to assassinate the Afghan president and seize control of Kabul. The assault on December 27, 1979, was the bloody opening act to the Soviet-Afghan War that would set the country on a course for decades of conflict.
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