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=== Kaskad and Omega ===
After the full-sized invasion of Soviet forces within the Afghan People's Republic in July 1980 the KGB ordered the KUOS to form another special operations task force - Kaskad ({{lang|ru|Каскад}}, Russian for "cascade"). From July 1980 until April 1983 the Kaskad made four tours to Afghanistan in different composition and with different duration, so the four task forces are known simply as Kaskad-1 (6 months), Kaskad-2 (6 months), Kaskad-3 (9 months) and Kaskad-4 (12 months).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kuos-vympel.ru/history/kaskad/|title=Оперативно-разведывательный боевой отряд "Каскад"|website=www.kuos-vympel.ru|date=17 August 2021 }}</ref> Unlike the [[CIA]] the [[KGB]] operated both in intelligence and counter-intelligence capacities, so in contrast to the Zenyth Task Group, which was tailored to a specific operation and concentrated on intelligence gathering, the Kaskad Task Groups were organised to provide support to the KGB counter intelligence operatives in theater, suppressing covert activities in the towns and hunting down agents cross-country. In addition those task groups had the mission to select, train and mentor groups of Afghans which would take over their duties once the Kaskad is brought back to the Soviet Union and dissolved. 

In April 1983 the Kaskad-4 was relieved by the Omega Special Operations Task Group ({{lang|ru|Отряд специального назначения «Омега» КГБ СССР}}) with the same tasks as the Kaskad teams. The name of the task force (the last letter in the Greek alphabet) indicated it to be the last unit of that sort to be deployed to Afghanistan. Omega was composed of 9 mobile special operations task groups (8 located in the interior of the country, the ninth group located together with the unit HQ in [[Kabul]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://war.afgan.kz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122:-lr-&catid=50:2008-12-07-08-20-43&Itemid=57|title="Омега" оСпН КГБ СССР|last=Administrator|website=war.afgan.kz}}</ref> This task group concluded the building of local Afghan capabilities within the Afghan Counter-Intelligence Service KAM and its Special Operations Tasks Battalion to take over the responsibilities of the KGB assets deployed on site.