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The Russian Intelligence Officer Discovered Living in Afghanistan

Bakhretdin Khakimov was a Russian Soviet Intelligence Officer who was injured fighting the Afghan Mujahideen. He was injured in 1980 and wasn't heard from again until recently. He has since been discovered in Herat alive and well married to an Afghan woman. 

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