Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati
KHAD or KhAD is an abbreviation for Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati, the Afghanistan Marxist regime's secret police, also known as the State Information Agency.
Set up in 1980, and controlled by the KGB, this was a brutal agency specifically created for the suppression of Afghanistan Marxist regime's internal opponents.
It was initially headed by Mohammad Najibullah, until he became President of Afghanistan in 1986.
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