by Aravindan Neelakandan
Today, at that spot is a massive outrage against the alleged misappropriation of large information from a social networking site yesteryear Cambridge Analytica in addition to political parties seeking the services of such transnational large information crunchers to manipulate the electorate. However, decades before Cambridge Analytica, Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti translated inwards English linguistic communication as Committee for State Security), had a gratis run inwards India.
Prof Christopher Andrew, left, in addition to Vasili Mitrokhin
V K Krishna Menon inwards the Nehru cabinet was supported yesteryear KGB, according to Mitrokhin archives.
Today, at that spot is a massive outrage against the alleged misappropriation of large information from a social networking site yesteryear Cambridge Analytica in addition to political parties seeking the services of such transnational large information crunchers to manipulate the electorate. However, decades before Cambridge Analytica, Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti translated inwards English linguistic communication as Committee for State Security), had a gratis run inwards India. In fact, intelligence agencies of almost all the countries piece of work inwards other nations to farther their ain national interest. But what was unique nigh the KGB working inwards Bharat was the extent to which the agency enjoyed the clout inwards Indian polity so much so that its operations seemed to have got been accepted as almost a normal constituent inwards the Nehru-Gandhi dominated political scene.
Prof Christopher Andrew, left, in addition to Vasili Mitrokhin The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ceased to be inwards 1991. In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, the archivist of the KGB, defected to the United Kingdom. He brought alongside him the KGB archives. Based on the archives, the official historian of British intelligence agency, Christopher Andrew in addition to Mitrokhin collaborated in addition to produced 2 books: Sword in addition to the Shield (1999) in addition to The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB in addition to the Battle for the Third World (2005). The minute volume contains a divide chapter on India. Two exclusive chapters inwards the volume (17 in addition to 18) titled "The Special Relationship alongside India" bargain alongside the KGB operations inwards India.
Nehru Period- (1947-1964)
According to Mitrokhin archives revelations, Bharat was where the KGB "concentrated most of its operational elbow grease during the Cold War”. While Nehru supported the move, the Soviet Union officially saw Gandhi as "a reactionary... who betrayed the people in addition to helped the imperialists against them; aped the ascetics; pretended inwards a demagogic way to go a supporter of Indian independence ... in addition to widely exploited religious prejudice”. Nehru was non bothered nigh what they idea nigh Gandhi. Further, he underestimated the intelligence capabilities of USSR, either intentionally or ignorantly.
According to Mitrokhin, Nehru laughed out loud when warned nigh the USSR urging the Indian communists to overthrow his authorities in addition to remarked that “Moscow patently did non know how smart our intelligence was”.
However, the archives exhibit that KGB already had penetrated deeply into the Indian establishment "using its park varieties of the dearest trap”. What comes out is that inwards 1950s in addition to 1960s at that spot was a ‘war’ betwixt Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) in addition to KGB right inwards the Indian political scenario. The KGB was uncovering the IB penetration inwards the Communist Party of Bharat (CPI). As KGB started fortifying CPI alongside money in addition to other inputs, IB penetration became increasingly difficult. The KGB created import-export businesses to Soviet bloc countries for the comrades. “The Soviet tidings agency Novosti provided farther subsidies yesteryear routinely paying the CPI publishing theater at a charge per unit of measurement 50 per cent higher upwards its normal charges,” informs the book, in addition to nosotros Indians know besides good the extent to which this functioning was conducted all over the country. Nehru was already fast gravitating towards the USSR, making Bharat almost a Soviet ‘satellite’. For example, Nehru authorities voted "against a United Nations resolution calling for gratis elections inwards Republic of Hungary in addition to the withdrawal of Soviet forces”.
V K Krishna Menon inwards the Nehru cabinet was supported yesteryear KGB, according to Mitrokhin archives. Within the Nehru cabinet itself, comrade V K Krishna Menon was nurtured yesteryear the KGB. In 1962, Moscow authorised KGB residency inwards Bharat to acquit 'active-measures operations designed to strengthen Menon’s spot inwards India”. The same year, Menon was chiefly instrumental inwards India's determination to purchase Russian MiG-218 fighter jets rather than British Lightnings. When Menon came nether severe criticism after the Chinese invasion fiasco, Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) passed a resolution directing KGB inwards Delhi to furnish "secret finance for a paper which supported Menon”. Here, Mitrokhin does non merely create the allegation. He provides a documentary reference: "CPSU Central Committee resolution of xv Nov. 1962; vol. 4 ind., ch. 5, p. 28.” One wonders which was that paper in addition to what is its modern twenty-four hr menstruum avatar?
Indira Gandhi Period-I (1967-77):
According to Mitrokhin, inwards KGB communications, one-time prime number government minister Indira Gandhi was code-named VANO. As early on as 1953, during her commencement view to the USSR, she had been on the KGB radar. While keeping her nether constant surveillance, they surrounded her "with handsome, attentive manly somebody admirers”. Indira Gandhi was overwhelmed alongside all the attending in addition to wrote to Nehru that she was "wallowing inwards luxury”. Indira Gandhi’s official view to the USSR, along alongside her father, was inwards 1956. While at that fourth dimension Indira Gandhi was a agency to befriend Nehru, yesteryear 1967 KGB had "funded the campaigns of several agents in addition to confidential contacts within Congress”. Shockingly (or should nosotros say non so shockingly), Mitrokhin informs us that "the most senior agent identified inwards the files ... was a government minister code-named ABAD”, who was considered as "extremely influential" yesteryear the KGB. Anti-communist Congress leaders similar due south K Patil were discredited in addition to charged alongside forgeries alongside the aid of a KGB mole inwards the U.S. of A. consulate. When the 1967 elections were over, the KGB noted alongside satisfaction that it "was able to influence xxx to xl per cent of the novel parliament”. Now Moscow gave instructions to CPI to teach into the government. The authors write:
Encouraged yesteryear Moscow, the CPI swung its back upwards behind Mrs Gandhi. By infiltrating its members in addition to sympathizers into the left-wing Congress Forum for Socialist Action (code-named SECTOR yesteryear the KGB), the CPI laid out to gain a spot of influence within the ruling party.
One tin forcefulness out say that the Marxist takeover of Indian academia in addition to media, which nosotros meet today, started aggressively from this menstruum onwards.
At this point, principal private secretarial assistant to Indira Gandhi was Parmeshwar Narain Haksar, who was said to have got "a straightaway link alongside Moscow in addition to the Soviet embassy”. He needed no manipulation from KGB, for he himself was a committed leftist. By the early on 1970s “the KGB presence inwards Bharat became 1 of the largest inwards the globe exterior the Soviet bloc”. Indira Gandhi was instrumental inwards making the KGB gain a stronger foothold inwards India.
The volume explains:
Indira Gandhi placed no boundary on the issue of Soviet diplomats in addition to merchandise officials, therefore allowing the KGB in addition to GRU as many comprehend positions as they wished. Nor, similar many other states, did Bharat object to admitting Soviet intelligence officers who had been expelled yesteryear less hospitable regimes. ... Oleg Kalugin, who became caput of FCD Directorate K (Counter-Intelligence) inwards 1973, remembers Bharat as “a model of KGB infiltration of a Third World government”: “We had scores of sources throughout the Indian authorities - inwards intelligence, counter-intelligence, the Defence in addition to Foreign Ministries, in addition to the police.’
Growing corruption nether the regime of Indira Nehru-Gandhi was good used yesteryear the KGB. While she herself never indulged inwards conspicuous luxurious lifestyle, she did non attention much nigh the root of funding for her party, in addition to her boy Sanjay Gandhi also needed back upwards for his misadventures. The fund collection was managed yesteryear Lalit Narayan Mishra, who would eventually go killed. The archive notes reveal instances of huge money inflow from the KGB:
On at to the lowest degree 1 occasion a clandestine gift of 2 meg rupees from the Politburo to Congress (R) was personally delivered after midnight yesteryear the caput of Line PR inwards New Delhi, Leonid Shebarshin. Another meg rupees were given on the same occasion to a paper which supported Mrs Gandhi. ...Though at that spot were unopen to complaints from the CPI leadership at the utilisation of Soviet funds to back upwards Mrs Gandhi in addition to Congress (R), covert funding for the CPI seems to have got been unaffected. By 1972, the import-export occupation organisation founded yesteryear the CPI a decade before to merchandise alongside the Soviet Union had contributed to a greater extent than than 10 meg rupees to Party funds. Other clandestine subsidies, totalling at to the lowest degree 1.5 meg rupees, had gone to province Communist parties, individuals in addition to media associated alongside the CPI. The funds which were sent from Moscow to Party headquarters via the KGB were larger still. In the commencement half dozen months of 1975 lonely they amounted to over 2.5 meg rupees.
Apart from the politicians, the KGB was also really closely working alongside the Indian media. As inwards the instance of politicians, the media also was as corrupt fifty-fifty then. This highlights the ease alongside which KGB was able to works life stories inwards Indian media:
According to KGB files, yesteryear 1973 it had x Indian newspapers on its payroll (which cannot go identified for legal reasons) as good as a press agency nether its ‘control’. During 1972, the KGB claimed to have got planted 3,789 articles inwards Indian newspapers - in all likelihood to a greater extent than than inwards whatever other province inwards the non-Communist world. According to its files, the issue roughshod to 2,760 inwards 1973 but rose to 4,486 inwards 1974 in addition to 5,510 inwards 1975.
The KGB also started to manoeuvre into organising ground-level demonstrations. In 1969, Yuri Andropov, who was the chairman of KGB reported to Brezhnev nigh the KGB activity inwards India, asking for to a greater extent than funds:
The KGB residency inwards Bharat has the chance to organize a protestation demonstration of upwards to 20,000 Muslims inwards front end of the U.S. of A. diplomatic mission inwards India. The cost of the demonstration would go 5,000 rupees in addition to would go covered inwards the... budget for special tasks inwards India. I asking consideration.
Brezhnev wrote ‘Agreed’ on the request. After the 1971 victory of Indira Gandhi, from 1971-76 the Politburo approved "the establishment of a clandestine fund of 2.5 meg convertible rubles (code-named DEPO) to fund active-measures operations inwards Bharat over the side yesteryear side 4 years”.
In 1976, fifty-fifty as the entire state was nether near-fascist Emergency, the entire Nehru-Gandhi spot unit of measurement alongside the 2 sons in addition to daughters-in-law were constituent of Indira Gandhi's official view to the USSR. H5N1 films sectionalization flick (directed yesteryear H due south Advani) speaks nigh how "Mrs Gandhi's elderberry boy Rajiv in addition to daughter-in-law Sonia were on a sight-seeing trip to Sergiyev, seventy kilometres from Moscow" in addition to "the commentary adds that it was the middle of Russian orthodox church”.
During the 1977 elections, CPI full general secretarial assistant Rajeshwar Rao in addition to the party’s national council secretarial assistant northward K Krishna were summoned to the Soviet embassy. They were persuaded to back upwards Indira Gandhi. Another three-member Soviet squad also asked the CPI leaders to become alongside Indira Gandhi.
The volume reveals:
KGB files study Rao in addition to Krishna as maxim that they greatly appreciated the advice of their Soviet colleagues in addition to were steadfast inwards their back upwards for Mrs Gandhi. Their appreciation also reflected the unusually high grade of Soviet subsidies during the CPI election elbow grease – over 3 meg rupees inwards the commencement 2 months of 1977.
In 1976, Indira Gandhi, her 2 sons in addition to their wives visited Moscow fifty-fifty as the state is nether Emergency. In this shroud capture from a video, Brezhnev makes a special gesture at Rajiv Gandhi. There is an interesting aside to this. Indira Gandhi was either paranoid or purposefully vocal inwards world nigh a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plot inwards the province against her. She ever spoke of the mitt of CIA beingness behind her political reversals in addition to blamed the agency for the pop movements against her. This repeated world statements against the U.S. of A. led the so U.S. of A. ambassador inwards New Delhi, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to monastic enjoin an investigation. After the probe, he announced that at that spot were indeed 2 occasions when CIA had provided funds to Indian political parties – 1 time inwards West Bengal in addition to so inwards Kerala. On both occasions, it was done for the Indian National Congress during Nehru regime.
Moynihan wrote:
Both times the money was given to the Congress Party which had asked for it. Once it was given to Mrs Gandhi herself, who was so a political party official. Still, as nosotros were no longer giving whatever money to her, it was understandable that she should wonder to whom nosotros were giving it. It is non a do to go encouraged.
The victory of Communist Party of Bharat (Marxist) (CPI-M) inwards West Bengal fifty-fifty as non-communist opposition defeated Indira-CPI inwards 1977 elections attracted the attending of Andropov. Soon nosotros discovery that ‘‘important information’ nigh CPI-M policy was obtained yesteryear the Delhi main residency from its contacts alongside Party leaders”.
Janata, Post-Janata And Post-Indira (1977-1991)
During the Janata Party rule, KGB came upwards alongside a directive "on measures inwards connector alongside the results of the parliamentary elections inwards India”. The main objectives were non only to save the special Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty that was signed yesteryear Indira Gandhi but also "to deter Janata from seeking a rapprochement alongside the USA in addition to China”. The Politburo approved a directive on KGB active measures entitled "on measures to influence the ruling circles of Bharat inwards novel weather to the wages of the USSR”.
Meanwhile, KGB was also working to influence Indira Gandhi. KGB inwards Delhi had "re-established covert contact alongside her through an operations officer... operating nether comprehend as a Trud correspondent”. Indira Gandhi had develop a commission for democratic activity (CDA) for high-voltage propaganda against the Janata government. KGB develop an active-measures fund to purchase influence within the CDA. The authors write: "though at that spot is no evidence that Mrs Gandhi knew of its existence, the fund had, inwards July, 275,000 convertible rubles”.
After the Janata experiment failed miserably, Indira Gandhi came dorsum to power, winning 351 out of 542 seats. However, at nowadays KGB had a occupation inwards the shape of her boy Sanjay Gandhi, who was vocal nigh his disapproval of socialism in addition to exhibited his fondness for capitalism. CPI strongly criticised Sanjay Gandhi in addition to Indira Gandhi. Still inwards his entourage besides KGB had planted an agent who was code-named PURI. In June 1980, Sanjay Gandhi died inwards a bird crash which was a large relief for KGB establishment inwards India.
Interestingly, alongside CPI attacks increasing on Indira Gandhi, she took to the strategy of competitive Soviet-leaning to struggle CPI, creating ‘the friends of the Soviet Union’, as a counter to CPI-dominated ‘Indo-Soviet cultural society’. In 1981, an instance of Indira Gandhi openly seeking Soviet intervention inwards Indian politics was exposed only because it ended upwards inwards a fiasco:
In June 1983, she sent a clandestine missive of the alphabet to the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, attacking the CPI for having ‘ganged up’ against her alongside right-wing reactionaries. The missive of the alphabet was entrusted to Yogendra Sharma, a fellow member of the Party Politburo who disagreed alongside Rajeshwar Rao’s opposition to Mrs Gandhi. Once inwards Moscow, however, Sharma had minute thoughts in addition to ‘confessed all’ to a Party comrade. When the story was made world inwards India, Indira’s critics defendant her of “inviting Soviet interference inwards India’s internal affairs”.
According to the archives, yesteryear 1983, the KGB had started courting Rajiv Gandhi, who entered into the spot unit of measurement occupation organisation of politics shortly after the decease of Sanjay Gandhi. Clearly, Rajiv Gandhi was clever plenty non to criticise socialism in addition to was to a greater extent than amicable. He was given a huge reception inwards the USSR, which showed he was "virtually anointed yesteryear the Soviet commissars as the unquestioned successor to Mrs Gandhi”.
In 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated in addition to Rajiv Gandhi was promptly declared as the prime number minister. The next menstruum saw a corking personal friendship flowering betwixt Rajiv Gandhi in addition to Mikhail Gorbachev. However, things were changing at a fast stair Soviet Union. The policies of Glasnost in addition to Perestroika were signalling the destination of Cold War in addition to would ultimately Pb to the collapse of the USSR inwards 1991, the same twelvemonth Rajiv Gandhi, who had already been ousted from ability inwards 1988, would pay alongside his life for the misadventures he conducted inwards Sri Lanka. The operations of KGB inwards New Delhi itself had lost their relevance.
There would, however, go a swan vocal deed – alongside the KGB planting a imitation story of AIDS virus had been ‘manufactured’ during genetic applied scientific discipline experiments at Fort Detrick – inwards the Indian magazine, Patriot. This study shortly gained currency inwards many of the third-world countries despite international scientific community rejecting it. Ultimately, Soviet authorities themselves became "concerned that exposure of Soviet disinformation mightiness impairment the novel Soviet picture inwards the West”. So, inwards August 1987, the Soviet authorities officially disowned the AIDS story.
The Evidence – Some Amazing Corroborations
More than whatever other province Bharat should have got been shaken yesteryear the Mitrokhin revelations, which exposed the untrustworthy nature of the entire Lutyens' Delhi. But so at that spot was no serious demand to investigate the allegations made inwards the book. When the volume was launched inwards 2005, it was the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), which was inwards power, in addition to Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi merely pooh-poohed the volume as "pure sensationalism non fifty-fifty remotely based on facts or records”. Except for a few articles hither in addition to there, the mainstream media did non bother to pursue the story. Why should they? They were to a greater extent than oft than non the heirs of the really establishment that profited from both KGB, CIA in addition to every other extra-territorial agencies, who served the vested interests of Lutyens’ Delhi – vested interests political or otherwise.
One such exceptional article was published inwards Bharat Today yesteryear reporter Dilip Bobb, who had taken the elbow grease to banking concern check the claims made inwards the volume alongside a volume written yesteryear an Indian intelligence officer. And this is what he found:
M.K. Dhar, one-time IB director, inwards his volume Open Secrets, wrote that the IB had succeeded inwards “identifying 4 Union ministers (in Indira Gandhi’s cabinet) in addition to over 2 dozen MPs who were on the KGB payroll”. He went on to province that “the most surprising surface area of KGB penetration was the Defence Ministry in addition to those layers of the armed forces which were responsible for state of war machine procurement”.
Dilip Bobb, “Book On KGB Unveils Russian Agency’s Ops In Bharat During Cold War, Political Storm Ensues”, Bharat Today, 3-Oct-2005
Independently, co-author Christopher Andrew would tell Bharat Today the same. Eminent historian Prof Jayanta Kumar Ray inwards his piece of work on India’s unusual relations corroborates good alongside what Mitrokhin archives reveal. Soviet agencies "established a kind of stranglehold over Indian civilisation yesteryear running as many as 53 front end organisations which inwards plough ran 47 newspapers in addition to periodicals along alongside many books in addition to brochures”.
Aruna Asaf Ali in addition to Subhadra Joshi started their lives as liberty fighters but ended upwards becoming willing establishment leftists for the Soviet ‘deep state’ inwards India. Soviet agencies supported Ali, in addition to according to a report, Soviet satellite German Democratic Republic (East Germany) financed the election elbow grease of Joshi. Even promotion firms were develop so that newspapers could have large Soviet subsidies regularly. The success of the press services of the information subdivision of the Soviet diplomatic mission inwards New Delhi could go measured yesteryear the issue of reproductions of these press services inwards diverse newspapers. In Feb 1965, for example, the issue of reproductions was 305 inwards English, 291 inwards Hindi, 263 inwards Panjabi in addition to 271 inwards Urdu. ... Amazingly, to send forwards this story of Soviet intrusion into India’s cultural sphere, inwards 1965, Aruna Asaf Ali received the Lenin Prize. It could non go a elementary coincidence that she was an of import partner of a fellowship called the United Bharat Periodicals Private Ltd. For, this fellowship was inwards fiscal trouble, in addition to had to operate the daily paper Patriot in addition to the weekly magazine, Link. Link House was a highly expensive modish edifice on a key locality inwards New Delhi. Surprisingly, the Indian Refineries Limited (affiliated to the Union Petroleum ministry building nether the command of a beau traveler, K D Malaviya) granted a huge loan for the structure of this building. East Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany supplied at a heavily discounted cost the printing presses for Patriot in addition to Link ...
India’s Foreign Relations, 1947–2007, Routledge, 2013
Clearly, the KGB operations, Mitrokhin archives reveal, were to a greater extent than than sensationalism. If anything, for obvious legal reasons, the authors have got played downwards many aspects of KGB operations inwards India.
Dr Preeti Dilip Pohekar inwards her well-documented in addition to scholarly piece of work on ombudsman scheme inwards Bharat hints at unopen to other really black in addition to disturbing possibility. According to her, during the Sino-Indian conflict, when Indian authorities raided in addition to seized all papers inwards the Bank of China, it was discovered that Nehru had an undisclosed occupation organisation human relationship of 'royalty' for his books inwards Soviet Union. (Pohekar, 2010, P 60). The volume was non a sensational 1 nor does it have got whatever ideological bias against Nehru. She merely states this as a fact. But this hint tin forcefulness out explicate why Nehru was clearly soft towards Soviet sponsored mag similar Link in addition to Patriot to such an extent that many officials in addition to politicians felt that these magazines had the approbation of Nehru. If true, so Soviet operations inwards Bharat were far to a greater extent than sinister than fifty-fifty what the Mitrokhin archives reveal.
Dr Yevgenia Albats, a beau at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism (1993), was inwards 1992 a fellow member of authorities commission to examine the involvement of KGB inwards Kremlin coup that happened inwards the previous year. She afterwards wrote her findings inwards the shape of a volume The State Within a State: The KGB in addition to Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, in addition to Future' (1994).
She writes:
A missive of the alphabet signed yesteryear Vikor Chebrikov, who replaced Andropov as caput of the KGB inwards 1982, noted: “The USSR KGB maintains contact alongside the boy of Premier [sic] Minister Rajiv Gandhi (of India) ... R. Gandhi expresses deep gratitude for benefits accruing to the Prime Minister’s spot unit of measurement from the commercial dealings of an Indian theater he controls inwards cooperation alongside Soviet unusual merchandise organizations. R.Gandhi reports confidentially that a substantial part of the funds obtained through this channel are used to back upwards the political party of R.Gandhi.”
In 2011, CIA declassified a 1985 report, titled "The Soviets inwards India: Moscow's Major Penetration Program”. H5N1 "sanitized copy" is available online. What it reveals independently tallies alongside what Mitrokhin archives reveal. It says that Soviets "provided funding to Congress-I Party coffers through kickback arrangements alongside Indian businesses”. But what is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interesting inwards the CIA study is that it shows both CPI in addition to CPI(M) had been funded yesteryear the Soviets "through a combination of kickback schemes, normal occupation organisation transactions, in addition to straightaway cash payments”. There were essentially iii methods:
a) Publishing theater subsidies (60-65 per cent discount to Peoples Publishing House (PPH) which accounted for three-fourths of PPH's annual sales, which as on 1985 exceeded Rs 10 million.
b) Soviet advertisements inwards CPI journals which accounted for $60,000 inwards 1984 alone.
c) Visitors' expenses
which included cash as good as air tickets for visitors to the USSR sponsored yesteryear CPI or its front end groups. Subhadra Joshi, a rabid anti-Hindu pol was supported inwards her 1977 election (which she lost) yesteryear East Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany diplomats, who financed her election elbow grease giving $50,000. Later, she became caput of the GDR-Indian Friendship Society.
It is fourth dimension Indian intelligence agencies or think-tanks concerned started doing similar analysis for ‘planted’ anti-Hindu stories in addition to atrocity literature that is aimed at stalling evolution inwards India. The most interesting seem of planting stories inwards the press yesteryear KGB so shows unopen to remarkable parallel betwixt how the pro-Congress old establishment media plants anti-Modi atrocity literature today. The study details the KGB operation:
According to a recent defector, the Soviets’ goal inwards most of their propaganda in addition to disinformation campaigns is to spot materials inwards the larger, prestigious English linguistic communication language press. ... Many Indian papers, particularly the to a greater extent than prestigious English linguistic communication language press, are reluctant or unwilling to set out an article without source. ... The Soviets sometimes teach a root attached to an article yesteryear placing it inwards the pro-Soviet or Indian Communist press. The Soviets so seek to teach a journalist to spot it or a spinoff article inwards 1 or to a greater extent than of the prestigious English linguistic communication language papers, which establishes the credibility of a story alongside most Indian audiences in addition to increases the chances that other papers volition option upwards the story. H5N1 minute technique for attaching sourcing in addition to planting articles is to spot materials alongside an Indian tidings service, which so attributes its cry to the story in addition to telegraphically distributes the story to the wire services’ paper subscribers. The Soviets have got had immense success using this technique alongside the Press Trust of Bharat (PTI)... in addition to have got several key PTI managers on the Soviet pay roll. ... The Soviets have got such automatic access to PTI that when they laissez passer on an article to, for example, a prestigious English linguistic communication language paper, they also oft spot it alongside PTI to ensure that it gets published.
Inside Soviet circles, sometimes people joked that PTI was genuinely ‘Press TASS of India’.
The inquiry 1 needs to enquire at nowadays is what happened to those journalists, bureaucrats in addition to their Indian political associates after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is non really hard to guess. There is a really potent possibility that this valuable property of individuals in addition to networks created yesteryear KGB in addition to India’s ain corrupt, powerful in addition to suave Lutyens cabal, could have got been taken over yesteryear both PRC in addition to CIA, non to bring upwards the growing pan-Islamic forces alongside territorial ambitions inwards India. Today, a minute generation besides has come upwards up, good entrenched in addition to good networked – challenged only yesteryear the decentralised novel digital media. So, the persistent allegations of KGB operations inwards Indian polity in addition to media – creating a systemic malicious stand upwards was vindicated yesteryear independent corroborations. It is the duty of the authorities at nowadays to become through the allegations, alongside inputs from intelligence agencies, in addition to reach a white paper.
The Soviet-manipulated leftist stranglehold on Indian institutions continues to this day. Consider for instance the National Book Trust (NBT). Here, 1 sees 2 instances of national volume festival beingness conducted inwards this writer's hometown – Nagercoil. NBT is an autonomous torso nether the Ministry of Education of the authorities of India. New Century Book House (NCBH), which is shown as partnering alongside NBT, is 1 of the Soviet-supported publishing houses inwards Tamil Nadu. One would hold off NBT in addition to NCBH to go equal participants along alongside unopen to other publishers shown inwards the welcome banner. However, as 1 enters the volume festival venue, the vast bulk of the books displayed are rabid Marxist in addition to anti-Hindu. H5N1 handful of books of NBT in addition to other publishing houses are also on display, exactly to go legally correct.
However, when I made a purchase carefully selecting from those handful of books from other publishers, the nib was raised inwards the cry of NCBH. In other words, the NBT was used as a banner to attract people, patch what is happening within is anti-Hindu Marxist propaganda. This is exactly 1 instance of how the scheme works right nether the acquaint authorities also. Any elbow grease to modify the scheme would go met alongside shrill voices of "danger to freedom”.
Although a reputed authorities create cry similar NBT is used, the predominant books are Marxist in addition to anti-Hindu. The venue is a merchandise wedding ceremony edifice in addition to the rent goes to Leftist organisations. H5N1 perfect manipulation of system. Given the way India’s media has been functioning over the final 4 years, hyping isolated events of violence as national epidemic, highlighting fringe groups of 1 particular ideological sentiment as the caricature of entire ruling party, they all seem to advise that at that spot are forces at piece of work within the media which are planting stories inwards a way really similar to KGB operations inwards the 1970s in addition to 1980s.
Consider this: John Dayal, 1 of the most vocal ‘Breaking India’ personalities, genuinely started his world career from the really same Patriot KGB used inwards its Indian operations.
Aravindan is a contributing editor at Swarajya.
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