Intelligence & National Security Discussion

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Sep 2010 23:27

Its OK. They can't repeat the trick again anyway. And the ATS do need some good morale boosting publicity after the disasters in 2008. The good thing is the bad guys know there is an efficient force that will come after them eventually.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Sep 2010 23:48

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VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 10 Sep 2010 05:21

India, US discuss Chinese military presence in PoK

New Delhi, Sept 9 (PTI) The US today viewed with concern the growing Chinese assertiveness in the Asian region as India shared its apprehensions over reported People's Liberation Army presence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

US Pacific Command chief Admiral Robert Willard told reporters here that he discussed with India's top security leadership about the reports of Chinese military personnel being in PoK, though not much information was exchanged on it.

Willard, however, said "any change in military relations or military manoeuvres by China that raises concerns of India" could be considered as certainly occurring within his area of responsibility.

He also maintained that this issue had to be tackled by the Indian military on its own.

Craig Alpert · Post by **Craig Alpert** » 10 Sep 2010 07:53

Pune Blast Accused Trained in Bomb Making in Colombo

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 13 Sep 2010 12:53

More intriguing facts about the "death" of the Britrish MI-6 spy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... death.html

Concern grows over foreign involvement in spy's death
Concern is growing within the intelligence community that the MI6 spy found dead in his London flat may have been the victim of a professional hit by a foreign power

It is understood Mr Williams's job at the time of his death was creating computer defences in the City of London. Williams would have had access to information which other countries would want to obtain.

The intelligence source said: "His job was to defend the banking system on which Britain's banking, commerce and all our public services depend. It was the kind of work that would have made him prime target for recruitment.

"He was also in a position to know about huge money transfers out of the Middle East which were linked to terror groups. It would be priceless data."

One theory being examined is that Mr Williams may have had an approach from a rival agency, and either rebuffed it without informing his superiors or initially agreed to co-operate then got cold feet.

If such an approach had been exposed there would have been severe political and diplomatic repercussions, making it expedient for Mr Williams to be killed.

It can be revealed that Williams had also played an important role in creating signal intelligence equipment, known as sigint, to listen to Taliban communications in Afghanistan.

He had helped in fitting out three Brittan-Norman Islander aircraft with this equipment to be used as airborne-listening stations.

Based at RAF Northolt in West London since 2007 they have flown over selected British cities searching for communications between suspected terrorists.

A key part of the equipment is the wide-band recorders that Mr Williams helped to develop. Each has the capacity to vacuum up continuous mobile phone traffic in a city the size of Bradford.

The "product" is then downloaded to GCHQ where state-of-the-art computers analyse the voices using voice-recognition software.

Mr Williams's knowledge of US intelligence agencies would have also been valuable. He spent several months at Menwith Hill, the secret listening station in Yorkshire used by the United States to intercept coded messages, and Fort Meade in Maryland, the home of the US's National Security Agency.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 13 Sep 2010 17:12

^^^ funny how they chose bradford(istan) as an example of a city!

Rupesh · Post by **Rupesh** » 13 Sep 2010 21:09

Dragon’s teeth

It is back to eyeball-to-eyeball, barrel-to-barrel and bayonet-to-bayonet on the India-China border. Narasimha Rao’s 1993 agreement on border peace and tranquillity is dead. So is the 1995 agreement to pull back from Sumdorong Chu, as well as the 1996 agreement on military confidence-building. These agreements had enabled the Indian Army to move several divisions from the China border and deploy them in the Kashmir Valley to fight insurgents. It also enabled China to focus less on military matters, make economic progress, show a soft face to the world, host the Olympics and gain global prestige.

Kashmir is secure and the Olympics over. Both countries are currently on a military-building spree over the Himalayas. Indeed, China drew the first blood by building rail lines, roads and airfields so that it can quickly move huge divisions into Tibet from where they can pulverise the frontiers of India. Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, with its politically sensitive monastery which the Chinese have always coveted, looked particularly vulnerable.

India has been paying back in the same coin, building border roads for quick troop movement, upgrading airfields in Ladakh and helipads in Arunachal, raising new Army divisions, redeploying an entire corps, and even giving wings to entire brigades for heli-lift. Operation Falcon, Indira Gandhi’s 15-year border militarisation programme launched in 1980 and given up in 1993, has been re-started under another name. With the result that Arunachal, especially Tawang, is today an Indian fortress, or a windmill which would be quixotic for the Chinese to tilt at. A frustrated China, therefore, is seeking out another Achilles’ heel in Kashmir’s Ladakh.

Recent Chinese actions against Kashmir and Ladakh are evidence of this frustration, say senior Indian Army officers. Militarily, there were a series of Chinese border intrusions in Ladakh last year. Diplomatically, China altered its public posture on Kashmir from ‘hands-off’ (even during Kargil war, China refused to help Pakistan) to a declaration that Kashmir is ‘disputed territory’. Adding insult, Beijing even offered to mediate on Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Then it offered to host Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in China and began issuing visas to Kashmiris on loose sheets, indicating that Beijing does not recognise their Indian passports and nationality.

Stride-2009 was essentially aimed at proving the PLA’s ability to mobilise in real time. However, what alarmed India was the simultaneous building of advance infrastructure in Tibet so that nearly 25 divisions could be moved into Tibet at short notice. China had three main airfields in Tibet—Kongka, Hoping and Pangta. However, in the months prior to Stride-2009, China built or operationalised two more around Lhasa, and four more elsewhere in Tibet, thus giving them nine airfields to land troops and support fighter operations. And about two months ago, China even exercised a few squadrons of Sukhois and J1s over Tibet. “Exercising them over Tibet has other implications,” said an IAF officer. “You cannot have a sustained exercise programme without having built massive ground support system. Thus even if China is not basing advanced fighters in Tibet as of now, they have all the ground systems in place. They can move in the aircraft in a matter of two hours now.”

More worrying has been the recent integration of their non-nuclear strategic missiles with their military area commands. India has kept its non-nuclear missile regiments (such as 333) under a separate command so that battalion or brigade commanders are not tempted to use them in the event of minor battlefield reverses. China, however, has integrated them into their area commands which signals that their use in battle is being left to the judgment of middle-level commanders

Indian defence ministry reacted with unprecedented alacrity. It sought permission to restart Operation Falcon—programme to build border roads and other infrastructure for quick military movement into Arunachal— launched in 1980 by General Krishna Rao on the orders of Indira Gandhi. China had captured Tawang in 1962 but had withdrawn realising that it could not hold on in the event of a counter-attack by the Indian Army. The operation was launched to secure Tawang against any adventurism by China. However, India had to suspend the operation in 1993 in lieu of China promising not to foment any border trouble

Indeed, the military and the BRO moved with incredible speed to match the Chinese road for road. “Border Roads Organisation has been asked to concentrate on strategic roads,” Antony told the Rajya Sabha on August 11. “There are 73 roads on India-China border (length 3,647km), out of which the BRO has been entrusted with 61 roads of total length of 3,394km in J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. Out of 61 roads, 14 roads of length 556.22km have already been completed and work is under progress on 42 roads....[Work] on five roads has not commenced.” According to Antony, 41 roads are planned to be completed by 2013 and the remaining six later.

in case the Chinese attempt any kind of adventurism on the Arunachal-Sikkim sector, the Indian Army would have three full corps waiting for them—the Sukhna-based 33 Corps, the Tezpur-based 4 Corps and the newly-augmented Dimapur-based 3 Corps. All of them have also been given the light 155mm guns which can be heli-lifted. ( When did we buy 155mm light howitzers )Advanced landing grounds have been built in Tuting, Pasighat, Vijaynagar, Along and Mechuka in Arunachal for heli-landing troops and equipment. “Take it from me,” said a general staff officer, “if they come, the Chinese will find Tawang an impregnable fortress.”

Apparently the Chinese know this. And so they have been shifting focus onto the western sector comprising India’s Ladakh. A few probing trespasses were made there last year, to which India responded with three measures. First, Jairam Ramesh’s road-blocking environment ministry withdrew its objections to building roads in some 760 Himachal villages. Second, the Indian Air Force augmented and activated a landing strip at Nyoma, 20km from the China border for taking troop-carrying Antonov-32 planes. Next, the IAF developed two more airstrips at Fukche and Daulat Beg Oldi.

rohitvats · Post by **rohitvats** » 13 Sep 2010 23:09

Rupesh,

155mm Light Howitzers are the US M777 guns....but they are yet to come.

And btw, that is a brilliant article. Clearly articulates what the GOI is doing and has mandated the Services to do.There must be some serious long term threat which has been assessed by the GOI to mandate all this.

For a change, an article which is not apologist for India's actions.

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 13 Sep 2010 23:23

Fixed the URL tag -

Rupesh wrote:Dragon’s teeth -

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 14 Sep 2010 00:52

darshhan wrote:^^ somebody in higher echelons is covering up the tracks.In my opinion it is no accident.

Telecom scandal intercepts.

Raja's indictment by the supreme court is no coincidence. See the timing.

Surya · Post by **Surya** » 14 Sep 2010 01:23

only issue I have is how our firepower has incresed??

we still do not have 155 mm guns and the Pinakas and Smerchs are nowhere in large numbers

So it is still baffling - where is the extra firepower let alone adequate firepower??

Rupesh · Post by **Rupesh** » 14 Sep 2010 01:32

rohitvats wrote:Rupesh,

155mm Light Howitzers are the US M777 guns....but they are yet to come.

.

I hope the deal will be signed during BHO's visit..

So it is still baffling - where is the extra firepower let alone adequate firepower??

I guess it will be due to Brahmos!

Surya · Post by **Surya** » 14 Sep 2010 01:39

Rupesh

brahmos is meant for precision strikes

For just plain brutal hammering - we need arty, rockets and mortars.

Craig Alpert · Post by **Craig Alpert** » 14 Sep 2010 05:52

INDIA, BANGLADESH EMBARK ON STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP SILENTLY

Ambar · Post by **Ambar** » 14 Sep 2010 11:39

nits wrote:Nabbed in 70 days

A team of ATS officers worked on shifts round-the-clock watching every movement of the German Bakery blast suspects Bilal and Himayat Baig before nabbing the terror duo

Just students
Telephone records indicated that members of Bilal's module, posing as post graduate students, were staying at service apartments in Frazer and nearby Benson Town.

It helped them move around freely in the township with few neighbours suspecting their activities, informed a police source.

A team of officers, accompanied by informants, flew into Bangalore by the next flight.

Code language
Initially, the officers could not make sense of the conversations as they were in Naiwali, a dialect spoken in Bhatkal Village in South Karnataka. The services of a local translator were hired to analyse the intercepted data. Once the cops understood the language keeping tabs became easier.

24-hr tabs
The buildings were kept under surveillance and officers worked on shifts round-the-clock to watch their every movement. The operation was monitored by ATS chief Rakesh Maria. Officers from Mumbai flew into Bangalore at regular intervals to relieve their tired colleagues.

Giving the slip
While the ATS kept constant tabs on the IM members, Bilal managed to give them the slip. After his arrest, Bilal told investigators that he would change his appearance and shuttle between Bangalore, Mangalore, Bhatkal Village, Gulbarga, Nasik and Pune.

Secret operation
The team led by Maria exercised extreme caution and utmost patience as they did not want to let Bilal escape just like how IM masterminds Riyaz Bhatkal and his brother Iqbal gave the cops the slip.

The operation was so discreet that even local police were unaware of the ATS team's presence in Bangalore.

Just one correction though : The local language spoken by majority of Nawayath Muslim community in South Canara /North canara (coastal Karnataka) is 'Nawaiti' and not Nawali- a mish-mash of Konkani,Arabic,Urdu and sometimes Kannada.

It is rather ironic that a sleepy little town called 'Bhatkal' is so much in news these days, but for people who grew up in and around Udupi this should hardly come as a surprise. If my memory serves me right, the first time Bhatkal made front line news was when BJP MLA Dr.Chitranjan was shot dead in his house (some say by a sniper,others say he was shot almost point from a pistol).This incident shook much of coastal karnataka where firearms was almost unheard of.It is hard to believe 14 years have passed since then.And it has unfortunately taken our agencies 14 years to realize that the most powerful fundamentalist islamists exist in small towns and villages and not in cities.

Bhatkal served as a notorious port for buying and selling smuggled electronics,cosmetics,rugs and mainly gold starting from mid-80s to early 2000s.Infact, mysterious international trawlers anchoring miles off the coast from Bhatkal and small boats unloading stuff right under the noses of cops was a common sight for us.The lifestyle of Muslim traders who dealt in such shady business were envy of the town.Fat ladies in 'GA' (Goa) registered Vans, and traders from as far as Madras visiting Bhatkal to buy bulk goods was almost an everyday activity.

Perhaps,the most important role that Bhatkal played (and still plays) is in 'Hawala'.Some of the richest guys living in palatial bunglows were mostly 'Hawaladaars'.'Hawala' is still the most popular way among muslim community in coastal karnataka to channel money from middle-eastern countries.Needless to say, funding for illicit activities too come through Hawala.

It is time IB/Karnataka police wake up and smell coffee.Bhatkal,Gulbarga,Bijapur,Hubli and Chickmagalur are turning into perfect sleeper-cells for jihadis.

dinesha · Post by **dinesha** » 14 Sep 2010 13:58

Rupesh wrote:Dragon’s teeth

Excellent article..
It reads more like a ‘situation report’ by NSC.

abhishekm · Post by **abhishekm** » 14 Sep 2010 23:24

dinesha wrote:
Rupesh wrote:Dragon’s teeth
Excellent article..
It reads more like a ‘situation report’ by NSC.

This is the most feel-good article about the India-China border equation since 1962

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 15 Sep 2010 01:23

Hindu reports on
Backpack video surveillance equipment developed by Hyd techie and being used by City police.

HYDERABAD: Wearing a backpack like a college student, the policeman will go on a bike to a Ganesh pandal and aims a video camera at it. His superior at a far away place examines the video live through wireless Internet on his laptop -even while on the move- and reviews the security measures.

Welcome to the new backpack mobile video transmission system being tried by Hyderabad police to monitor Ganesh festivities. With lakhs of devotees thronging thousands of Ganesh pandals in every nook and corner of the State capital, police top brass always found it difficult to know what was happening at the spot.

The new system developed by a tech-savvy Hyderabadi businessman, Siddamshetty Rajanikanth, has become a handy solution for them. It has no complex technology, expensive spare parts and recurring expenditure, he says. Thirty-one-year-old Rajanikanth of Aryacomnet is into the business of security gadgets and conceived the plan recently.

An IP 66 standard video camera is connected to an encoder which has the software to compress high resolution videos. This is linked to a router with 3G modem through which the live video in compressed form is beamed to a server. A URL is created for the end user - here the police officer wanting to see the video. He would log into the website from his laptop with a specific username and login password and see the live visuals.

“Advantage of the system is all -camera, encoder, router and modem- can be put in a backpack. It doesn't require direct power. A battery which too can fit in the bag makes things further easier,” Rajanikanth says. The live visuals can be seen on a mobile phone with 3G facility and windows as well. The camera has night vision facility as well.

Good job!!!

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 15 Sep 2010 03:13

Govt revises Union War Book to meet current situation

"The entire government machinery, from the armed forces to the railways, civil aviation, shipping, surface transport, health and the like, has to be mobilised in the event of a war,'' said a top official.

"Times, tactics and doctrines have changed since the Union War Book, which has been in existence since the days of the British Raj, was last revised years ago. Primarily carried out by the defence and home ministries as well as the Cabinet Secretariat, the update caters for all this,'' he added.

The new Union War Book, which is with the Cabinet Committee of Security for the final nod, lays down action plans in minute details to meet any contingency during war.

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 15 Sep 2010 03:23

Rip Van Antony

" Good morning, Mr Antony, welcome to India’s new neighbourhood. Under Mr Antony’s watch, India’s defence expenditure (defex) to national income ratio slipped below 2 per cent for the first time since the war with China in 1962. In 2008-09, the defex/GDP ratio was 1.95 per cent, a level India recorded last in the late 1950s, when Mr Antony’s infamous predecessor, the late V K Krishna Menon, was presiding over the nation’s defences with disastrous consequences. The defex/GDP ratio has continuously declined in recent years, from around 2.9 per cent to less than 2 per cent. It is only in the last year that the ratio has moved up to 2.3 per cent. Even this is way below the 3 per cent level defined as an "adequate" level of expenditure in India’s first ever Strategic Defence Review prepared by the National Security Advisory Board in 2000. China spends over 7 per cent of its much higher GDP on defence.

what is Anthony up to! I hope he is following the great communist lover V K Krishna Menon's failed policies.

Prabu · Post by **Prabu** » 15 Sep 2010 10:14

dinesha wrote:
Rupesh wrote:Dragon’s teeth
Excellent article..
It reads more like a ‘situation report’ by NSC.

Wow !

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 15 Sep 2010 14:03

Duplicate

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 15 Sep 2010 15:02

dinesha wrote:
Rupesh wrote:Dragon’s teeth
Excellent article..
It reads more like a ‘situation report’ by NSC.

R. Prasannan is very good. Most of his articles are very well researched.

Craig Alpert · Post by **Craig Alpert** » 21 Sep 2010 17:40

Australia TV crew brings detonation kit into CWG venue

Ambar · Post by **Ambar** » 21 Sep 2010 17:49

Craig Alpert wrote:Australia TV crew brings detonation kit into CWG venue

If ANZ and England refuse to participate in CWG, they have a good reason for it. After countless attacks the sheer negligence and apathy of our Police force that too in our nation's capital is shameful!

Craig Alpert · Post by **Craig Alpert** » 22 Sep 2010 00:11

Suspected Pakistani spy held in Delhi

NEW DELHI: A suspected Pakistani spy, who was staying in the national capital for the last one year to conduct recce of army installations, has been arrested, police said today.

Shujat Haider, 43, hailing from Lahore, was apprehended from an East Delhi locality on September 14, they said. He was staying in the locality for the past one year.

Trained in Lahore, his job was to conduct recce of army installations in Delhi. He had entered India in September last year through Bangladesh, police said, adding he was staying in Delhi as Mohammad Pervez.

Haider, son of one Mohammad Ali Haider, was produced in a local court on September 15 and was sent to police custody for a week. He will be produced before the court tomorrow, they said.

A senior police official said they will seek further police remand of the accused to throw more light into his activities in the last one year.

Dmurphy · Post by **Dmurphy** » 22 Sep 2010 04:51

dinesha wrote:
Rupesh wrote:Dragon’s teeth
Excellent article..
It reads more like a ‘situation report’ by NSC.

New Delhi's latest counter check?

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 22 Sep 2010 08:53

When Britain decided to stop spying on India

http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Brit ... 03120.aspx

sum · Post by **sum** » 22 Sep 2010 09:09

Craig Alpert wrote:Suspected Pakistani spy held in Delhi

Another Paki spy?

( 10-11 in last 4 months)

Not sure whether to be happy with the counter-intel or be sad that so many Paki spies are loitering around in Desh?
Another positive seems to be that the spies are Pakis themselves and not locals working for them ( in most cases) which means too many Desis are not queuing up for spying ( though providing logistics is a different matter).

Wonder if our agencies are so super-duper that not a single genuine Indian spy seems to get caught in poak land!!!

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 22 Sep 2010 10:31

sum wrote:Another positive seems to be that the spies are Pakis themselves and not locals working for them ( in most cases) which means too many Desis are not queuing up for spying ( though providing logistics is a different matter).

Also note that these spies manage to get information from Indian sources only. Along with identifying the people providing the logistics (and what motivates them to do that), we also need to check who gives the information (and what motivates them to do that).

nits · Post by **nits** » 22 Sep 2010 15:16

abhishek_sharma wrote:When Britain decided to stop spying on India

http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Brit ... 03120.aspx

As per the article

The British were so unsure about intelligence sharing with post-independent India, its spy agencies decided to set up an unprecedented covert operation in the country but its agent — an unnamed high-profile police officer — was exposed. The result of the fiasco, according to a book launched at the British foreign office on Tuesday, was the historic decision taken by Prime Minister Clement Attlee that British agencies would no longer spy in any Commonwealth country without that government’s approval

Is this agreement of not spying on any Commonwealth country still in place... Highly unlikely though

sum · Post by **sum** » 22 Sep 2010 15:43

truckload of BS to show that UQ is sooo peacefoool onlee...

I have a bridge to sell if UQ claims that it has no spies or doesn't attempt to spy in Desh...

sum · Post by **sum** » 22 Sep 2010 21:17

sum wrote: Another positive seems to be that the spies are Pakis themselves and not locals working for them ( in most cases) which means too many Desis are not queuing up for spying ( though providing logistics is a different matter).

Well, the reason to be happy with the counter-intel is also gone if the below news is true:
CIA inputs help nab ISI agent

Is this another form of outsourcing? With the intelligence set-up in India facing constant flak, Delhi police seems to have found an ally in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Special Cell of Delhi police has arrested a Pakistani Spy from Samalkha village of Delhi. The CIA had passed on relevant information to authorities here. This is not the first time the Americans have helped Indian security agencies.

The accused Sajjad Haider alias Mohd Parvez was arrested on the 14th of this month from Delhi. The accused was carrying a fake Indian Visa.

"We received information from CIA about the Pakistani spy hiding in Delhi. Then we developed the inputs about the accused and arrested him from Samalkha village. Confidential documents related to Indian Army, a fake Indian driving license, an Indian PAN card on fake identity along with Western Union money transfer receipts, rent agreements, mobile SIM cards, phones etc have also been recovered from his possession and from his rented accommodation in Samalkha," said a police officer.

On August 23, city cops arrested Mohammad Shah Jalal from Majnu Ka Tila in north Delhi and busted a fake visa racket in the process. The inputs came from CIA. "We received secret information from the CIA about a Bangladeshi national involved in human trafficking with fake Nepali visas to send citizens of his own country to other nations," said a police officer.

Why the f$#%6 is Amrika helping us uncover Paki spies in Desh?

They did the same with the army major in A&N also ( 2 other cases are mentioned in this article itself).....something isnt feeling right here..

abhishekm · Post by **abhishekm** » 22 Sep 2010 21:32

nits wrote:
abhishek_sharma wrote:When Britain decided to stop spying on India

http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Brit ... 03120.aspx
As per the article

The British were so unsure about intelligence sharing with post-independent India, its spy agencies decided to set up an unprecedented covert operation in the country but its agent — an unnamed high-profile police officer — was exposed. The result of the fiasco, according to a book launched at the British foreign office on Tuesday, was the historic decision taken by Prime Minister Clement Attlee that British agencies would no longer spy in any Commonwealth country without that government’s approval
Is this agreement of not spying on any Commonwealth country still in place... Highly unlikely though

Considering one of MI6's most important stations is Islamabad, Pakistan, I really doubt if this is the case!

Also, it would be naive to assume that they don't have a station in Delhi. With the CWG around the corner I can visualise plenty of British intelligence types trooping around the capital and wringing their hands at the pathetic state of security at the Games Village! I wouldn't be surprised if there is a concerted operation taking place to neutralise all terror threats to the CWG participants.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 22 Sep 2010 21:40

abhishek_sharma wrote:When Britain decided to stop spying on India

http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Brit ... 03120.aspx

If anyone believes this, there is the Taj Mahal for sale.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 24 Sep 2010 00:17

ramana wrote:
abhishek_sharma wrote:When Britain decided to stop spying on India

http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Brit ... 03120.aspx
If anyone believes this, there is the Taj Mahal for sale.

What a bogus story.
They had their people in IPI atleast till 1968 and later till 1977. This is until unkil took over.

sum · Post by **sum** » 24 Sep 2010 10:40

Acharya-san,
IPI?

Marut · Post by **Marut** » 24 Sep 2010 17:48

^ IPI (India Political Intelligence) established in early 1900's was the prescursor to the IB as we know it today. They were mainly dealing with political and revolutionary orgs involved in the freedom fight. A lot of their archives were taken to UK or destroyed to avoid falling into Indian hands.
So yes, Taj Mahal, Hoogly Bridge, Qutub Minar, Gateway of India, etc are on sale if anyone wants to believe that Brits stopped spying on us after 1947.

Rupesh · Post by **Rupesh** » 24 Sep 2010 21:16

Govt clears Rs 1,100 cr coastal security scheme

NEW DELHI: Aiming to strengthen country's security along the sealine, the government on Friday approved a Rs 1,100 crore coastal security scheme to be implemented from April 1, 2011.

The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cleared the home ministry's proposal for implementing the second phase of coastal security scheme.

Under the scheme, the Centre, with the help of states having coastline, proposes to set up more coastal police stations, purchase high-speed boats, recruit security personnel and procure high-tech gadgets.

Under the first phase of the coastal security scheme, the Centre set up 73 coastal police stations, 97 check posts, 58 outposts and 30 operational barracks, equipped with 204 vessels and vehicles in the nine coastal states, four coastal Union Territories.

kit · Post by **kit** » 25 Sep 2010 16:52

http://www.hindustantimes.com/When-Brit ... 03120.aspx

This report is bull.

The countries that spy the most are those most allied to it.Who do you think spy the most inside the US of A ? .. The Israelis ! Who had the largest spy ring inside India., so big that its operations inside India were one of its largest in the world .. the erstwhile KGB !