The Afghan President (To Be) Who Lived A Secret Life In A Czechoslovak Forest

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The Afghan President (To Be) Who Lived A Secret Life In A Czechoslovak Forest
November 03, 2019
    By Frud Bezhan      Petr Kubalek

KRASLICE, Czech Republic -- In the winter of 1978-79, Afghanistan's communist regime deployed a hit squad to find and kill Babrak Karmal, the high-profile ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

Fearing for his life, Czechoslovak authorities secretly hid Karmal and his family in a remote hunting lodge in the dense forests straddling the border with East Germany.

The family-of-six lived covertly for a year under the protection of the StB, Czechoslovakia's notorious secret police. To ward off the assassins, they were relocated to a sanatorium in a secluded mountain village and then an abandoned villa that was once used by the Soviet Army.


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