Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy

Ambassador Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy awards Afghan medals for the family of Izvestia reporter Alexandr Secretarev (1954–1988)

Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy ( Pashtun سيد محمد ګلاب زوي; * 1951 in Paktia ) is an Afghan politician and former military and ambassador .

Life

Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy comes from a family of Zadran Pashtuns. He trained as an aircraft mechanic with the Afghan Air Force and studied at the Air Force College in Kabul. As an officer in the Air Force, he supported Mohammed Daoud Khan when he abolished the monarchy in Afghanistan in 1973 and Mohammed Sahir Shah went into exile in Rome. In 1976 he studied radar technology in the Soviet Union. He became a member of the Democratic People's Party of Afghanistan , where he was included in the Amin-affiliated Khalq faction.

After the Saur Revolution on April 27, 1978, he became Minister of Communications in the State Council on July 8, 1978. As the conflict between Khalq and Partschamis intensified, Gulabzoy came into opposition to the head of the intelligence service, Hafizullah Amin , and came to an agreement with Mohammad Aslam Watanjar and Asadullah Sarwari to overthrow Amin. When the failure of this conspiracy became apparent, he asked on September 14, 1979 to be allowed to telephone in the Soviet embassy in Kabul. July Michailowitsch Voronzow refused to make a phone call. After Gulabzoy had also unsuccessfully asked for a telephone call at the Czechoslovak embassy in Kabul, he was removed from the post of communications minister on September 16, 1979.

With Operation Rainbow, the KGB took part in the evacuation of the Afghan opposition from Afghanistan. On September 19, 1989, Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy was brought to the Soviet Union via Bulgaria and served as a scout in Operation Storm-333 . With the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan , an Afghan Revolutionary Council was set up as government; Here he operated from December 28, 1979 to October 1988 as Minister of the Interior and was confirmed as such on January 11, 1980. As Minister of the Interior, he set up a special police force to persecute the mujahideen who were recruiting zarandoi . In 1983 he was promoted to general and in 1987 he was admitted to the Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

On November 25, 1988, he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow by Mohammed Najibullah . In March 1990, Lieutenant General Shahnawaz Tanai tried to overthrow Mohammed Najibullah . Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy was dismissed as ambassador on charges of involvement in the conspiracy. Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy was granted asylum in Moscow until the fall of the Mullah Kabir regime in 2001.

In 2005 he was elected to the Wolesi Jirga in the electoral district of Khost .

KGB agent

According to the Mitrokhnin archives, Gulabzoy was a KGB agent who went by the name of Mammad. Whether the so-called Saur Revolution was a covert operation by the KGB has not yet been conclusively clarified.

literature

• Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World , Basic Books (2005) ISBN 0-465-00311-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexandr Secretarev Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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predecessor	Office	successor
Abdul Karim Atayi	Afghan Minister of Communications July 8, 1978 to September 16, 1979	Muhd. Aslam Watanjar
Abdul Qadir	Afghan Interior Minister December 28, 1979 to October 1988	Yunus Khalis (Hizb-K)
Habib Mangal	Afghan Ambassador in Moscow November 25, 1988 to March 1990	Azizullah Karzai