KHAD

Sometimes KhAD?. Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati.

The State Information Agency. The Afghanistan Marxist regime's secret police. Set up in 1980 and controlled by the KGB this was a brutal agency for the suppression of the regime's internal opponents.

It was initially headed by Mohammad Najibullah, until he became president in 1986-7.