CPSU CC Politburo decision, 17 January 1980
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION, CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Top Secret
#P179/USh
To: Comrades Brezhnev, Kosygin, Andropov, Gromyko,Suslov,
Ustinov, Ponomarev.
Excerpt from Protocol #179 of the Politburo CC CPSU session of
17 January 1980
On the situation in Afghanistan.
1. To take into consideration the information presented by
Comrades A.A. Gromyko, Y.V. Andropov, D.F. Ustinov, and B.N.
Ponomarev on this question.
2. To entrust Comrades A.A. Gromyko, Y.V. Andropov, D.F. Ustinov, and B.N. Ponomarev with continuing their work on
analyzing and preparing materials related to the situation in
Afghanistan.
All questions that need to be considered should be submitted to
the Politburo of the Central Committee.
Secretary of the CC
[Source: APRF, f. 3, op. 82, d. 174, l. 117.]