KGB IN AFGHANISTAN

The storming of the palace of Amin in Kabul - we all know a lot about that: there Soviet Special Forces lost 10 men, while the defenders suffered 400 deaths. And more than a thousand people were taken prisoners… However, the most secret details of those events have come to light only now. How was the storming of the palace planned, and what was the real goal of the operation? How did Soviet Special Forces fight for the lives of the Amin family? How did it happen that they firstly poisoned the Afghan leader, and then brought him back to life; why was there so much confusion in the Kremlin? And finally: why did the leadership of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence try to convince Brezhnev not to send troops into Afghanistan, limiting himself just to a coup?