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The great betrayal - The New Indian Express

Its a big article and worth reading in full.
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hate to say this., but the simplest answer might be the most correct. India has been a free for all ground for almost all intelligence agencies in the world for quite a long time now. Heck, even the government of India doesnt trust its own agencies where it matters.Every new government starts a new intelligence agency for the real work.The ones already there IB RAW etc are deemed by the government to be too compromised to deal with any real intelligence, and they exist only to give post retirement/favorites plum jobs abroad.Most sensitive departments are already under multiple influences from abroad.Military was the only bastion that had been kept away from external influences .. that has changed too (esp with IA) .. for the worse .. how much.. only time will tell. The rot is lop sided starting from the very high levels

some one looking at the whole picture wonder how India ever survived being a democracy !.. maybe as long as everyone gets their fill, the motivation will be to maintain the status quo

God bless India !
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kit wrote:hate to say this., but the simplest answer might be the most correct. India has been a free for all ground for almost all intelligence agencies in the world for quite a long time now. Heck, even the government of India doesnt trust its own agencies where it matters.Every new government starts a new intelligence agency for the real work.The ones already there IB RAW etc are deemed by the government to be too compromised to deal with any real intelligence, and they exist only to give post retirement/favorites plum jobs abroad.Most sensitive departments are already under multiple influences from abroad.Military was the only bastion that had been kept away from external influences .. that has changed too (esp with IA) .. for the worse .. how much.. only time will tell. The rot is lop sided starting from the very high levels

some one looking at the whole picture wonder how India ever survived being a democracy !.. maybe as long as everyone gets their fill, the motivation will be to maintain the status quo

God bless India !
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ToIlet has anarticle buried in the online edition that the Artificer at vizag any a chief engineer associated with the Arihant have been found dead near railway tracks. Initial indications are that they were not run over and looks like they were killed somewhere else and their bodies dumped near the tracks. Anyone else have additional inputs?
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rajithn wrote:Initial indications are that they were not run over and looks like they were killed somewhere else and their bodies dumped near the tracks. Anyone else have additional inputs?
Only input I have is that both these men were Malayalis. Infact they had some function at a common place attended that and then left out on a motor cycle never to return. The police also feels that this was not an accident or suicide. This is what is reported in Malayali media.
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ToI: Nuclear submarine engineer found dead on railway tracks in Visakhapatnam
Oct 7, 2013, 03.48 AM IST
VISAKHAPATNAM: Bodies of two defence personnel were found under suspicious circumstances on the railway tracks falling under Pendurty railway station (PRS) limits of East Coast Railways (ECoR) here on Sunday morning.

On being informed by railway trackmen, Government Railway Police (GRP) at Visakhapatnam railway station immediately reached the spot. Following enquiries, one of the deceased was identified as KK Josh, 34, chief engine room artificer (CERA) at Shipbuilding Centre, a unit of ministry of defence at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) premises here. The other was identified as Abhish Shivam, 33, a chief engineer working at INS Arihant, India's first nuclear-powered submarine.

While Josh, a resident of Kakani Nagar near the airport, was a native of Kozhikode, Shivam belonged to Ernakulam district in Kerala and was living at the Navy quarters at Dolphins Hills. Both of them were posted in the city three years ago.

The GRP team along with a dog squad and fingerprint team scouted the area around the tracks and collected clues. While GRP cops maintained that a case was registered and awaiting the postmortem report from King George Hospital, relatives of the deceased and the leaders of Kerala Kala Samiti (KKS) alleged that the deaths appeared to be under suspicious circumstances and demanded that the police immediately launch a high-scale probe into the incident.

GRP circle inspector A Parthasaradhi told TOI that they had not seen any suspicious marks on the bodies of the two near the railway tracks. "As on Sunday, we filed a case and sent the bodies for postmortem at KGH. We have to wait for the report before making any statement," Parthasaradhi said.

Relatives and locals, however, raised suspicion over the incident, pointing out that there were no visible injuries on the bodies to show that they had come under a passing train. Suspicion was also raised that the two had been attacked elsewhere and their bodies thrown near the tracks.

GRP officials said there were no suspicious marks on the bodies. But the victims' kin said there were no visible injuries to show they had been run over by a train.
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I hope police takes this one seriously. I can't recall when I last heard people holding significantly responsible positions in high value projects dying unnatural deaths under suspicious circumstances. When our govt is lame and intelligence & security apparatus in its shackle, anti national forces can take advantage of the situation and test new avenues for hurting India. I just hope sense prevails in GoI and strict investigation be done.
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Sumeet wrote:. I can't recall when I last heard people holding significantly responsible positions in high value projects dying unnatural deaths under suspicious circumstances.....
Arjun project Senior scientist Swargiya Shri G.K Kumaravel in 2012
A senior scientist involved in the development of Arjun main battle tank died when a lorry smashed into a car in which he was travelling at Dechhu near Jodhpur in Rajasthan around 3.30pm on Monday.
G K Kumaravel of the Combat Vehicles Research Development Establishment (CVRDE), Avadi, was head of the Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT) Mark 1 and 2 programmes. Police said he was on his way to Pokhran to participate in user trials of Arjun MBT Mark-2 when the accident occurred. Kumaravel died on the spot while senior CVRDE scientists P V Murali and Daniel Sunder Singh were
HAL senior test pilot Sawrgiya Shri Baldev Singh commits suicide by hanging from a tree in the hills where he went for a walk in 2011
HAL's chief test pilot (fixed wing) and recently made Director (Corporate Planning & Marketing) Squadron Leader (Retd) Baldev Singh was found dead this morning. Possible suicide. He was apparently on holiday in Karnataka's Nandi Hills, where his body was found. More details shortly. R.I.P.

An official profile released recently: Sqn Ldr Singh took over as Director (Corporate Planning & Marketing) at HAL in August. Before that, he was Executive Director Flight Operations and the Chief Test Pilot (Fixed Wing) at HAL's Bangalore Complex.

Singh was involved with the LCA Programme from 1990 onwards and was deputed to the Aeronautical Development Agency for this purpose. On the LCA programme he worked extensively on the development and flight testing of the flight control laws of the Light Combat aircraft. He carried out the flight evaluation of these flight control laws at the Real Time simulator at BAE Wharton in UK followed by the flight evaluation of these control laws on the F-16, Lear Jet and NT-33 aircraft in the US.

Singh had extensive test flying experience on five prototype programmes and carried out the first flights of the HANSA aircraft and the Intermediate Jet Trainer.
Apart from above cases from recent memory,there have been quite a few incidents in the past like....

Entire HAL Awacs project team was wiped out when a prototype crashed in 1999
Swargiya Shri Homi Bhabha dies in a plane crash .
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Kerala, terror's own country, says NIA
Kerala has been declared a Red Zone by the National Investigation Agency, which firmly believes that the state has become a hotbed for terror activities. Last week’s verdict where 13 accused, including suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative T Naseer, were sentenced to life imprisonment for recruiting persons to fight the battle in Kashmir is a testimony that terror activities in Kerala have flourished.

An officer with the NIA told rediff.com that investigating terror in Kerala is a different ball game. “There is a massive presence of the Indian Mujahideen and the Students Islamic Movement of India here. The problem, however, is that they operate under micro modules and this makes tracking them even more difficult.”

The investigation agency also faces trouble from Hindu youths who have taken it upon themselves to dismantle these terror outfits. “Our fight is a continuous one with no end in sight,” an officer said.
The bolder and lined part was surprising for me... can anyone throw more light on it... who are this Hindu orgs who are fighting terror outfits on there own and how do they managed to get all required logistic support to fight well equipped terror orgs
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Gaurav; always post a brief heading and summary quote of the link you are posting
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India Setting-Up Three New Armed Forces Commands – Analysis
The Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne announced last week that the Indian Armed Forces are submitting finalised proposals to the Government for approval of setting up three new Armed Forces Commands.

The three new Commands proposed to be set up are as follows:

Special Operations Command. To be headed by an Army Lieutenant General

Space Command. To be commanded by an Air Force Vice Air Marshal

Cyber Security Command. Will be headed by the three Services on a rotational basis by a three-star officer. It is possible that eventually it may be assigned to the Navy.

Also announced was that the Tri-Service Command headquartered in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands which was so far been held in rotation by the three Services will henceforth be headed by a Vice Admiral of the Indian Navy.
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india ... eststories
India has initiated the process for making it a more tourist friendly destination, which includes extending on arrival visa for 40 more countries, simplifying online visa and attracting senior citizen foreign visitors.

The consensus was brought on these issues during a high level meeting convened here today by the Planning Commission.

"There was a consensus about initiating the process to make India a tourist-friendly country and extending the on-arrival visa facility to around 40 more countries," Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla told PTI.

The minister said: "All officials, including the National Security Advisor (Shivshankar Menon), were of the view that India should do this as it would help in garnering more foreign exchange when government is battling the problem of burgeoning current account deficit as it would help in earning foreign exchange."

Besides Commission's Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, others who attended meeting include, Foreign Secretary (Sujatha Singh), Tourism Secretary (Parvez Dewan), Additional Home Secretary and representatives from the Intelligence Bureau and the PMO (Prime Minister's Office).

The countries for which visa on arrival facility would be extended include the US, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Italy, Swedan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Norway and Ireland.

Under the visa on arrival system, India has agreement with different countries, including Japan, Finland, Singapore, Indonesia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar.

Besides relaxing visa norms, Mr Shukla said: "There was broad consensus on simplifying online visa system, relaxing visa regime for all types of conferences and senior citizen foreign tourist or foreign pensioners."

According to Mr Shukla it was also decided that on arrival visa facility would be extended to more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar which have large flow of foreign tourists.

At present the on arrival visa facility is available at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai,
Kochi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
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Isn't it too early to include countries from the gulf. Maybe we could have even avoided US, UK and Canada yet.
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Better way is to have robust criminal database including INTERPOL systems, surveillance etc.
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nits wrote:Kerala, terror's own country, says NIA
Kerala has been declared a Red Zone by the National Investigation Agency, which firmly believes that the state has become a hotbed for terror activities. Last week’s verdict where 13 accused, including suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative T Naseer, were sentenced to life imprisonment for recruiting persons to fight the battle in Kashmir is a testimony that terror activities in Kerala have flourished.

An officer with the NIA told rediff.com that investigating terror in Kerala is a different ball game. “There is a massive presence of the Indian Mujahideen and the Students Islamic Movement of India here. The problem, however, is that they operate under micro modules and this makes tracking them even more difficult.”

The investigation agency also faces trouble from Hindu youths who have taken it upon themselves to dismantle these terror outfits. “Our fight is a continuous one with no end in sight,” an officer said.
The bolder and lined part was surprising for me... can anyone throw more light on it... who are this Hindu orgs who are fighting terror outfits on there own and how do they managed to get all required logistic support to fight well equipped terror orgs

ok here goes ., this might seem like straight out of a 'Believe it or not' .. just factual data ..cant give any links

1) this is just one episode..one entire container of fake and authentic Indian currency 1000 rupee notes ..amounting to an equivalent of 500 million usd .. entire load was shipped out from a smaller sea port (not kochi) in Kerala ..distribution to various outfits of a particular religious organization . Came through Saudi Arabia ..original port not known but could be SA .. money after being funneled was utilized for building schools, three very large multi specialty hospitals and buying up land .. real estate prices in the state capital and kochi surged during this period.. also some five star hotels in kochi

2) the radical organizations like SIMI are very much alive in almost all colleges and teaching institutions in Kerala., even the professional colleges.These cells are usually 3 to 5 people and highly motivated , having regular weekly meetings on Fridays .Lakshadweep has been a particular focus for SIMI , interestingly as a relatively safe haven for those operating in kerala .

Hindu organizations are mostly sub of VHP .. they are mostly in the know of activities of these organizations

The outfits like simi has immense money power and political influence in Kerala and a major Islamic political party is actively bankrolled by them

on a post note the new RBI governors decision to allow islamic banking could have very undesirable side effects ...
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SIMI activists have changed their name and colours into NDF and Poular Front like LeT becoming JuD. Both LDF and UDF who comes to power in Kerala, especially congress led UDF, depend heavily on minority votes so no action is taken against them. I am pretty sure these oraganisations with their kind of activities would have been uprooted long back if they were based any where in central or north India. In fact any other state other than Kerala would have banned them outright.
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kit wrote:Hindu organizations are mostly sub of VHP .. they are mostly in the know of activities of these organization
There was a recent case when a ABVP worker was killed by Popular Front of India in Southern Kerala (Alleppey Dt?). The murderers were not college students, but the PFI it seems wanted to open a unit in a college. The unit of ABVP in the college of course protested it. The PFI college folks did not have the muscle power, and they brought in their big brothers.

So mainly the Hindu organisations against SDPI and PFI would be RSS & ABVP. I dont think even BJP is serious enough here. Some sensible commies have also started smelling the coffee, but again it would take many more years for a commie to come out of stupidity.
Dilbu wrote:Both LDF and UDF who comes to power in Kerala, especially congress led UDF, depend heavily on minority votes so no action is taken against them.
From what I could make out, with my main sources being social media and Keralite friends from various social and economical backgrounds. There is a feeling amongst people that the members of a particular community is punching way above its weight. The people being 100% literate and all that also come to know from news papers various events happening across the state. They too know who the culprits are as soon as this members of a particular community word is used ;). The majority in the state is yet to take up arms or ready to put up a fight. They retain their trust in the K.P. But at this point of time we cannot expect 100% literate intellectuals to follow up the foot steps of Jatts of UP, who mustered courage and put up a good fight.
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Rare picture of Rameshwarnath Kao (legendary RAW Chief). For those who do not know, Kao Sir is at right.

https://twitter.com/sandeepunnithan/sta ... 2029592576 ---> Sculptor Dhanraj Bhagat, extreme left (1917-1988) retro at NGMA. He had a fair share of interesting, rarely photographed visitors.

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Who is in middle?
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No clue Sir. But Sandeep Unnithan states they built a cowboy riding horse sculpture of Kao Sir in the foyer of RAW HQ. He was that kind of a legend!
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Wow, Kao sir seems quite a huge stature and build( or the guys next to him are a bit tiny)
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a write up on some aspects of Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, IN.
as per this article everybody seems to be economical with the truth. might be the euphemistic case of smoke and mirrors. but worth reading

http://www.frontline.in/the-nation/indi ... epage=true
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In principle, there should be no difficulty in settling the truth of the claims that Jadhav still serves with the Indian Navy. The Gazette of India records, among other things, the commissioning, promotions and retirements of military and civilian officials in granular detail. Inducted into the Navy in 1987, with the service number 41558Z, Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav would likely have been promoted to the rank of commander after 13 years of service, in 2000.

But the digital archive of the Gazette of India, a public document, has removed all files relating to the Defence Ministry for several months in 2000. Files in subsequent years bear no record of Jadhav’s retirement—though the Gazette is far from being immune to errors and omissions.

The government of India has told the International Court of Justice that Jadhav was a retired naval officer—a question that is, in any case, irrelevant to proceedings there— but it has declined to state exactly when he retired.

In response to a written question from this writer, the Naval Headquarters declined to confirm or deny whether Jadhav was a serving naval officer. Instead, it referred this writer to the Ministry of External Affairs. The Ministry, in turn, said it had “nothing to add to whatever is already in the public domain”.

In general, nation states simply deny any ties to individuals arrested for espionage. Thirteen Indians are being held in Pakistan on espionage charges, and 30 Pakistanis are in Indian jails, but in not a single case has either country officially concerned itself with its agent’s fate.
Cdr Jadhav seems to be a person of exceptional courage and fortitude
Jadhav, his colleagues said, volunteered for covert service.

“Few sign up for these kinds of dangers,” recalls a senior intelligence official who met Jadhav on one occasion. “His was a choice of exceptional courage.”

But there was a catch, a senior naval official recalls. “The commander was insistent that he be allowed to remain on the Navy’s rolls to secure his promotion and pay,” he said. “The Navy didn’t have a system for off-the-books operatives overseas, so this was how it had to be.”
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Long piece on Doval. Provides a leftist view of his career so far but many tit-bits:
Ajit Doval in theory and practice
AJIT DOVAL is India’s most powerful security bureaucrat. Appointed by and answerable only to the prime minister, he heads the National Security Council, an advisory body that includes the ministers of home, finance, defence and external affairs. A step lower down in the organisational hierarchy under the NSC is the Strategic Policy Group, which includes the secretaries of each of the ministries represented on the council, the heads of each branch of the armed forces, and the heads of India’s primary intelligence agencies—the Intelligence Bureau, or IB, and the Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW. The National Security Advisor is responsible for planning and coordinating the government’s efforts in pursuit of a coherent strategy for India’s protection, domestically and internationally. He also acts as the main filter of security-related information and advice between government organs and the prime minister, particularly when it comes to intelligence. On top of that, as the chairperson of the executive council of the Nuclear Command Authority, he recommends action on the control of India’s nuclear arsenal to the NCA’s ultimate authority, a political council chaired by the prime minister.

Those are the official bounds of Doval’s power. The real bounds of it are unclear, especially given the cloak-and-dagger nature of his work, but many familiar with the inner mechanics of the government are convinced that these transcend the official limits. Doval is among the few to constantly have the ear of a prime minister who has centralised power more than any of his predecessors in decades. An analyst who has worked with the NSA told me he has immense influence over the home ministry, the defence ministry and the ministry of external affairs. A former member of the cabinet secretariat said that Doval bypasses the command structures of India’s intelligence agencies and deals directly with their operatives. He also said that Doval acts as one of Modi’s main diplomatic counsellors, rivalled only by the foreign secretary. A Bloomberg report in 2016 stated that “some consider Ajit Doval the most powerful person in India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
“In an ugly and unfortunate incident, fully instigated and orchestrated by Pakistan intelligence, he was once attacked by a jatha at one of these pilgrimages.” The Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI—Pakistan’s main intelligence agency—is widely considered to have been involved in the Khalistani insurgency.
G Parthasarathy, who was the Indian consul in Karachi from 1982 to 1985 and later the country’s high commissioner to Pakistan, told me that he remembers Doval being designated the first secretary in Islamabad. “I must say he had a very sharp political sense,” Parthasarathy said. “He was the first chap to contact Nawaz Sharif, a young, upcoming politician in 1982,” in the position of finance minister for Pakistani Punjab. When the Indian cricket team reached Lahore while on a tour of Pakistan in 1982, Sharif welcomed them with a huge party at his home. This, Parthasarathy said, was facilitated by Doval.
The expert told me of Doval’s “Zero Doubt Policy”—“a name his colleagues came up with, as he dreamed up pragmatic ideas, often thinking the unthinkable, presenting them in briefing settings without a flicker of an eye.” The term referred, the expert continued, to how Doval “appeared to entertain no doubts, ever.”

Public information on Doval’s work in Kashmir is sparse, but Indian journalists have put forward some details. Specifically, the standard biographies credit him with persuading Kuka Parrey, a folk-singer turned insurgent, to switch sides and found the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen, a counter-insurgent unit of turncoat militants. The unit came to be widely accused of rape, murder, blackmail, abductions and disappearances.

“Turning Parrey was a political victory as well,” the security analyst Bharat Karnad wrote in 2016, as it “enabled the Centre to subsequently hold the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 1996.” Kashmir had been under president’s rule since 1990. The election, accompanied by a massive deployment of Indian security forces given a free hand under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, returned Abdullah to power, and is considered to have been a major step in subduing the insurgency
Around this time, media reports mentioned that Doval was under IB surveillance. In an interview with Outlook, he said that he knew nothing about it, and that the IB “is only doing its duty if it’s watching me—it’s the eyes and ears of the government.” Asked of the Congress’s assertions that he was in cahoots with the BJP, he responded, “How can I be in cahoots with the BJP? One can be in cahoots with the ISI or CIA. BJP is a mainstream party like the Congress or SP. … The level public discourse has sunk to is disturbing. Don’t forget I’m the highest decorated officer.”
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Inside the intelligence community, RAW’s new offensive operations are reputed to have registered unprecedented success against jehadist groups in Pakistan. The assassination of Lashkar chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed’s security boss, Khalid Bashar, in 2013; the penetration of the Jaish-e-Muhammad’s cross-border attack plans; the tit-for-tat arming of Baluch nationalists to retaliate against the ISI’s sponsorship of the Kashmir jehad—these have all been attributed, in Pakistan, to RAW’s new leadership.
Was there ever any news on Khalid Bashar( LeT honco bodyguard) being bumped off? Never came across this news before
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wig, I think the commie owners of Frontline are wrong to publish anything about a person held by Pakis.

Its not their business to be bright and write farticles.

One more hisab to chukao for grandmother crossed the LOC Pravin Swami.

Anyway as I commented before there many chairborne warriors in Delhi ready to back stab a successful person.

I bet it was one of them who sold the passport idea to Pakis.
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Under UPA, the NSA had direct control of all the intel agencies.

So which beedi is this former official smoking?
A former member of the cabinet secretariat said that Doval bypasses the command structures of India’s intelligence agencies and deals directly with their operatives. He also said that Doval acts as one of Modi’s main diplomatic counsellors, rivalled only by the foreign secretary.

This guy is AS Dulat type of mind set.
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Also AD is an operational expert who has put his life on the line by spending years in enemy territory and got a KC. What he must have forgotten about intel ops this gent will not learn in many lifetimes. He has every right to deal with operatives as he is form their profession and their guru. He has earned it many times over. There is a disdain for expertise and valour in our country.
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Some exceprts from an article from Mr Amar Bhusan former Spl Sec R&AW

"Filling top posts with senior-most officers is the easiest option. But it works as a disincentive for those who are far more professionally sound and have handled tougher assignments. Making it to the selection panel is not difficult, for what one needs is just to manage reporting officers to earn outstanding reports. Courtiers and conspirators are extremely good at it. After serving for 13 years, I nearly lost my promotion because I carried a lukewarm record. Those who were about to sidestep me had impressive annual confidential reports (ACRs), but they were either corrupt or served mostly in inconsequential jobs. I still got promoted but was informally advised to be ‘tactful’ and ‘learn to pay back’. I know an officer who had 32 outstanding ACRs in 32 years of his service. When I enquired about the secret of those reports, he said that he treated his senior as God and though he personally remained honest and hardworking, he never shied away from committing illegality for Him.

Very rarely, a boss takes it kindly if he is shown his professional inadequacy. In such a sycophantic working environment, if an officer, who speaks up his mind fearlessly, adheres strictly to rules and practices financial and intellectual probity as an article of faith, makes it to the panel, he deserves to be kicked up and not passed over for ranking low in the list.

A leader can actually make or mar an institution.

Barring a couple of chiefs in the R&AW, who were both senior-most and outstanding, the rest have been operationally weak, petty and vengeful. This has grievously affected the production of intelligence over the years. Two of the agency’s most outstanding operatives had to retire as additional secretaries because age was not on their side, whereas rank third-rate officers continued to be promoted as secretaries. The CBI is worse on this count because the Chief Justice invariably goes by the seniority and record of officers in selecting the director. Other members avoid backing a junior and more deserving officer, lest they are accused of ulterior motives."
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ramana wrote:
So which beedi is this former official smoking?
Ramana garu, I would ignore such trash. R& AW during past was always known as "Relatives and Wives organization", just political babus. Likes of Dulat to Alok Joshi. Only after AK Dhamsana came and current one things are changing as they are thorough operational gurus.

Things are turning but its like you need many years to raise a tree to bear fruits but only hours to chop it off. Atleast now the intel agencies are run how they are meant to be : Sharp knife. You see surgical strikes, disappearances of enemy targets from Nepal, border BAT action elimination, tit for tat action for free Baluchistan and Karachi and most recently capture of high level Air Force official. All these need solid ground Operatives.
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The report on Cdr Jadhav above is plain wrong.
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^^^^^^^^

said article is 3 years old...
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we need to issue a domestic certified phone like this to all security forces

https://sputniknews.com/science/2018022 ... cellphone/

http://www.bugshunt.ru/catalog/zashchit ... p-atlas-2/
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+100, very proactive ...
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Pakistan gave Osama to the US, former spy chiefs claim
“The ISI probably learnt about OBL [Osama bin Laden] and he was handed over to the United States according to a mutually agreed process,” Durrani wrote.

“The denial of any role [by Islamabad] was because cooperating with the United States to eliminate a person regarded by many in Pakistan as a “hero” could have embarrassed the government,” he wrote.
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Aarti Tikoo Singh and Vivek Katju spoke well. Don't waste time listening to Jyoti Malhotra. Safe to skip.
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Rabinder Singh, spy who defected to US, is no more: Double agent lived his last years as a remorseful recluse
https://www.firstpost.com/india/rabinde ... 88341.html
New Delhi: Rabinder Singh, a R&AW spy who fell for a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trap and defected to Washington in 2004, is dead. The double agent passed away sometime in late 2016 in a road accident in Maryland, informed government sources said. Singh was living as a refugee in the US after CIA dumped him months after a dramatic extraction to the US through Kathmandu in May 2004. He was faced with financial problems since the CIA had stopped sending him pay cheques. Singh’s attempts to get a job at a US think tank run by a former CIA deputy director were stonewalled, pushing him into deep depression, claimed an officer requesting not to be identified. A remorseful Singh, burdened with the sin of betraying his country, spent almost 12 years as a recluse in New York, Maryland and neighboring Virginia, where his extended family lives.

“We don’t know whether he is in heaven or hell, but what is clear is that he couldn’t take the guilt of betraying his country after his dream of being treated as a guest of state was shattered towards the end of 2004. He was totally neglected by the CIA and his efforts to get asylum were blocked by the American intelligence. He was left in the cold. He had invented a lie for US-based relatives that his life was in danger in India. They were convinced and despite so much material available about his treachery in the public domain, he was revered by relatives as a loving and kindhearted person. His death is seen as the closure of the case that was vigorously pursued till 2007. The betrayal of Rabinder Singh is one that R&AW would rather like to forget now,” the source said.

Singh, an army Major who joined R&AW on deputation in mid- 1980s, rose through the ranks of India’s external spy agency before he was recruited by the CIA. There is no clarity when he was compromised, however, sources claimed it was possibly either at a R&AW station in Damascus or Hague in early 1990s by a lady case officer of the CIA.

“We always believed that he was not a walk-in for the CIA given his affluent background. Singh was perhaps honey-trapped and his recruitment was a long-drawn process. He was carefully trained by the CIA to transmit documents without contacting the handlers, and when he returned from a foreign posting, similar arrangements continued, though he used to frequently travel to Nepal, most likely for secret rendezvous with CIA agents and to receive payments. Unlike a few other cases, he was never caught on tape meeting his handler or making a delivery. After his escape, the subsequent investigation had revealed that the money was also delivered to his children at the US by the CIA officers. Disproportionate assets were also discovered and it became a known fact that Rabinder amassed huge wealth while working with R&AW,” sources said.

Singh continued harvesting intelligence from fellow spies and shipped it to his handler at CIA head office at Langley, Virginia after his return from a foreign posting. His activities were monitored by the R&AW’s Counter Intelligence and Security Division (CIS) after he came under suspicion of being a mole for the CIA in December 2003. The CIS wired his office and Defence Colony residence in January 2004, which revealed Singh was collecting intelligence from different sources at the agency and passing it on to the CIA. During the 4-month long surveillance, Singh was allegedly tipped off about the noose tightening around him, and the CIA is said to have plotted his escape.

According to sources, Rabinder Singh fled India in the wee hours of 1 May 2004 in his friend’s car and crossed over to Nepal. He was facilitated by the then CIA operative in Nepal David Vacala, who now works for a Florida-based intelligence and defence services training company. Vacala made a mistake by booking hotel rooms in Nepalganj in his own name and subsequently, flight tickets purchased for Rabinder Singh and his wife were also billed to his address at the US embassy in Kathmandu. Singh and his wife were put up at a CIA safe house and meanwhile, two US passports in the name of Rajpal Prasad Sharma and Deepa Kumar Sharma were issued for their safe evacuation on 7 May, 2004. Once they landed at Washington airport, a CIA operative whisked the couple away, bypassing the immigration counter. Temporary IDs were provided, completely erasing their original identity.

The R&AW chief mounted pressure on the CIA, and its station chief in India was summoned. Although he feigned complete ignorance about the Rabinder Singh episode, the R&AW shared evidence, including photocopies of fake passports, travel bills in the name of Vacala and imprints of some images that Rabinder Singh was said to have wired to the CIA using secure file transfer protocol. The forensic examination of his two laptops had revealed that Rabinder may have shipped over 20,000 files to the CIA. The American intelligence officials denied the allegations. Months after his escape, an application for asylum in the US was filed by one Surender Jeet Singh, claiming to be a former R&AW agent. Back at the agency headquarters, R&AW officers believed that Surender was none other than Rabinder. His application was turned down by the immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals, arguing that the facts stated by him were not credible. He subsequently filed an appeal against the order at US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, California. Although a circuit judge reversed the earlier rulings, directing the board to re-examine his case, an indifferent stand by the CIA halted further legal proceedings.

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During the investigation, 57 R&AW officers, including some from the top ranks, were found to be regularly sharing information with Rabinder Singh. A post-mortem in the case revealed that about two dozen officers had actively colluded with him in leaking the intelligence to Langley. No action was taken against the officers and they were quietly transferred to insignificant stations, to live with the burden of sharing top secret notes with the traitor, who sold them to the CIA.

The audio-video tapes of surveillance had also revealed Singh’s conflicting personality, as he was found to be preaching moral values to his children through hundreds of phone conversations he had with children studying in the US. At the agency headquarters, R&AW Chief CD Sahay defended the surveillance and subsequent investigation, despite whispers that one of his predecessors was frequently meeting Singh and he might have consciously provided classified information to Singh. His escape was followed by intense debate in the media and within the intelligence community about the damages his betrayal might have caused. Many R&AW spies posted abroad were transferred, due to the fear that Singh may have revealed the names of undercover agents abroad to the American intelligence agency. Some crucial sources were dropped from the list. The Indian government's effort to arrest and extradite Singh was abandoned in 2007. The US government never acknowledged the presence of its valuable recruit Rabinder Singh on its soil.

A section within the intelligence community believed that then National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra dragged his feet over the arrest after Sahay informed him that Singh was a CIA mole. Mishra, according to sources, did nothing and the CIA pulled off a spying coup and prevented its network getting exposed. However, Singh’s treachery was not rewarded. In the ruthless profession of espionage, Rabinder Singh no longer had tactical value for his controllers. The infamous spy, who often quoted religious scriptures, lived and died carrying the darkest sins of betraying his motherland.
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Rabinder Singh, Spying damage was irreparable and great loss to our country but like every defected spy he met his destiny for betraying his mother land.
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Austin wrote:Rabinder Singh, Spying damage was irreparable and great loss to our country but like every defected spy he met his destiny for betraying his mother land.
99.9% of Indian Americans wouldn't recognize him by face or name. He had $, American lifestyle, etc. so he proly died happy. If it's this easy to defect, I would do it too. Indian gov doesn't seem to bothered about it either so nothing to feel guilty about.
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Wonder what attraction he had for the US .. all that money enjoyed by his relatives and he died unknown in a foreign land.. was it worth for him ? was it the land of " milk and honey " :mrgreen:
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