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        | Field name | Value | 
            
                | Reference | FCO 37/2247 | 
            
                | Department/Office | Foreign Office | 
            
                | Title | Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (Folder 12) | 
            
                | Date | 1980 | 
            
                | Collection | Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980 | 
            
                | Region | South Asia | 
            
                | Countries | Afghanistan, Soviet Union | 
            
                | Places | Afghanistan; Balochistan; Beijing; Bhutan; China; Delhi; France; India; Iran; Islamabad; Kabul; Lisbon; London; New York; Pakistan; Paris; Shimla (Simla); Thailand; Vietnam; Washington, DC | 
            
                | People | Carington, Peter (6th Baron Carrington); Carter, James (Jimmy); Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 14th Earl of Home; Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Karmal, Babrak; Taraki, Noor Mohammad; Thatcher, Margaret | 
            
                | Topics | agriculture; air force; aircraft; army; British Government; business; Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) (or Baghdad Pact); Christianity; communications; communism; coup d'état; diplomacy; economic aid; elections; exports; food; foreign policy; independence; Indian National Congress; invasion; Islam; judicial system; Khalq (People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan faction); labour; loans; military; nationalism; NATO; navy; nonalignment; oil; parliament; propaganda; protectorate; refugees; roads; Royal Air Force; Shia Muslim; socialism; steel; tourism; trade; transport; United Nations; war; weapons | 
            
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