Thursday, May 24, 2012

KGB, the former Soviet secret service,had eliminated honest politicians, like Lal Bahadur Shastri, Sri Deen Dayal upadhya, and the nexus in both the killing were manio , mother of Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Smt.Indira Gandhi Herself,


KGB, the former  Soviet secret service,had eliminated honest politicians, like Lal Bahadur Shastri, Sri Deen Dayal upadhya,  and the nexus in both the killing were manio , mother of Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Smt.Indira  Gandhi Herself, KGB bribed diplomats, select media, Communist  politicians and ministers during then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's  tenure has been met with shock, denial and we-knew-it-all-along  reaction in the Indian establishment. While politicians from the Congress and Left parties were quick to  rubbish the revelations, veteran media hands and former intelligence
officials believe that some of the exposures had a semblance of truth. "The Mitrokhin Archive, Volume II: The KGB and the World," by  Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, a senior KGB archivist,  reveals details of the agency's activities in India such as covert  funding of the Congress, individuals, media, and politicians of the  undivided Communist Party of India (CPI).  It says the reason why the KGB was more successful than the CIA, the  US spy agency, in buying influence was "partly because of its skill  in exploiting the corruption that became endemic under Indira
Gandhi's regime."  Though the book does not make any allegation against Indira Gandhi  personally, it says she was "unlikely to have paid close attention to  the dubious origin of some of the funds that went into the Congress's  coffers."  D Raja, CPI leader, told IANS, "These are wild allegations. The party  dismisses them with the contempt it deserves. If you look at it  closely it is a conspiracy  atched by the British and American  intelligence agencies." Published a year after Mitrokhin's death, the new book devotes two  chapters to India. It claims people in high places, including  ministers, were willing to provide sensitive information to the  highest bidder and "it seemed like the entire country was for sale."  Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, who has exhaustively chronicled that  era, told IANS, "I can't talk of the media being on the take but it  was well known then that suitcases of money used to exchange hands.  Senior Congress leaders like S. Nijalingappa of Karnataka and S. K.
Patil of Maharashtra (both dead) have talked about it." "At one point it was rumoured that P N Haksar, Mrs Gandhi's left- leaning, powerful principal  ecretary was the go-between and often  went to the Russian Embassy. But he denied the allegation."  The book also names former Congressman, L. N. Mishra, the party's  principal fundraiser then as the direct recipient of KGB money.  The BJP has reacted saying the Congress should come forward and  respond to the damaging claims made in the book. "The Congress has to respond to this revelation made in the book on  KGB, it is the responsibility of the Congress towards the nation,"  said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP spokesperson. "And the book also names Lalit Narayan Mishra, whose death is still  surrounded in mystery. We still don't know how he died, so now it  becomes imperative for the Congress to respond," he added. Mishra, who was known to be close to Gandhi, died when a grenade was  lobbed at him at the Samastipur railway station in Bihar on Jan 2,  1975.  Congress spokesperson, Abhishek Singhvi refuted the claims in the  book and said that the revelations were "baseless".  However, former intelligence officers, who served in the late 70s say  there is a grain of truth in some of the claims made in the book.  "The KGB had cultivated scores of sources in defence and foreign  ministries. Everyone knew where the gifts and scotch bottles were  coming from. During the Cold War years, the spy agency had a free  run," said a former intelligence official. In his account of the extensive KGB presence in India in the 1970s,  Christopher Andrew, Cambridge historian who collaborated with the  late Mitrokhin, says it was "one of the largest outside the Soviet  bloc" and was seen as a "model of KGB infiltration of a Third World  government.""

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