According to Lyakhovsky's account Dubs had gone to the Kabul Hotel on the 13thof February to meet with four men most likely aligned with the U.S. but opposed to the Taraki/Amin regime. Judging by their demands on the 14th, these men would have been supported by agencies friendly to the American mission, presumably in Pakistan, Iran or China. Soviet intelligence reports from the era indicate that in January 1979, Beijing had made an attempt to unite the "scattered groups of Afghan Maoists," including "Setam i Melli and other splinter groups," whose "program task" was the overthrow of the Afghan government. Recall that prior to his overthrow in April 1978, Prince Mohammed Daoud had ordered the Americans to stop meeting with the Afghan left but the Americans had not complied. Now, in one possible scenario, Dubs could have informed these pro-Maoist leftists that he did not want Amin overthrown and was ending their support by the embassy. An agreement was reached and a final payment of some sort agreed to. The next day - suitcase in hand - he was stopped at a prearranged spot by the same four men he'd met with the day before but for some unknown reason the conditions had now changed. Whatever the deal that had been struck now involved the release of Tajik/Shiite Maoists imprisoned by the regime. The Kabul Hotel was the worst possible location for such a transaction and the room 117 was indefensible. The decision to return to that room made absolutely no sense unless one of the four "kidnappers" was leading Dubs and the other three into a trap to which the busy Kabul Hotel was a key.
Dubs had put himself in the middle of a factional fight between anti-Pashtun Tajik/Shiite Maoists and pro-government Pashtun nationalist unaware that they were all being manipulated by an international criminal conspiracy working on behalf of Brzezinski's agenda to use Hafizullah Amin and three of the "kidnappers" as patsies to lure the Soviets into their own Vietnam.
Why assault the room?
Based on published accounts it's fairly certain that four men arrived at the hotel with Dubs but agreement on every other aspect of the so called "kidnapping" and death ends there. According to the Afghan report of the events three were killed in the room with Dubs, a fourth kidnapper was wounded and a short time later died of his wounds. The Americans claimed that two kidnappers were killed in the room, a third was taken alive downstairs early on and was later seen being taken from the hotel "alive and relatively unharmed."
A third account by Soviet KGB defector Vasiliy Mitrokhin maintains that of the four terrorists "Two died in the attack, one was taken into custody, and one escaped -- it isn't clear how," suggesting that the fourth kidnapper had been helped.
Echoing Brzezinski's longstanding practice of automatically claiming Soviet culpability before the facts were even known, the American report - leaked to the Washington Post by anonymous sources -- openly claims a Soviet responsibility for Dubs' death. Newsweek's Ron Moreau cited unnamed"U.S. congressional sources" stating that "the Russians had wanted Dubs to die." But Mitrokhin goes out of his way to insist that whatever influence KGB advisors might have had on the Afghan police that day, there was no "preconceived Soviet plot to kill Dubs."
The Afghans produced four dead bodies for the Americans that evening and claimed they were the kidnappers. Bruce Flatin recognized the two that had died with Dubs and a third who'd been taken alive from the hotel, but the fourth was a man he had never seen before. "In Kabul," Flatin told his Washingtonian interviewer, "it was easy to get a fourth body--right out of the jail. So there he was, the fill-in." The autopsy revealed that Dubs had been killed by 4 shots to the head delivered at close range from a .22 caliber weapon. Not the kind of weapon, according to Flatin, used by Afghan soldiers or police, but the favorite type of weapon used by professional assassins.
No one has ever suggested the existence of a separate non-governmental agency in the death of Adolph Dubs, nor even hinted at it. The existence of the Safari Club was only formerly acknowledged to have existed by the one-time head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence Prince Turki Al-Faisal at a Georgetown University event in 2002. But the Safari Club's no-compromise, anti-Communist agenda had been brought directly into the White House with Brzezinski's National Security Council in 1977 and it had been active in Afghanistan long before February 14, 1979. If ever there was an opportunity for their 1,500-strong "black network" of CIA misfits, malcontents, assassins and enforcers to act on Brzezinski's agenda to lure the Soviets into their own Vietnam, it was at room 117 of the Kabul Hotel on February 14.
Hafizullah Amin later took full responsibility for Dubs' death and absolved the Soviets, saying they had nothing at all to do with the decision-making. The case was supposed to be closed but it was clear that in addition to Dubs, the other target that day was Hafizullah Amin and thanks to Zbigniew Brzezinski for the next ten months he'd be left to twist in the wind as bait for a Soviet invasion.
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