India was a model of KGB infiltration for the Soviet Union
The recent exposé of the Congress govt. by declassification of Soviet Union’s documented treasures has once again confirmed America’s fears of India falling trap to the other side. Congress has always been known for its corruptness - look at the way they deal with Governors and state govt. formation now!
By the early 1980s there were about 1,500 Indo-Soviet Friendship Societies as compared with only two Indo-American Friendship Societies.
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Indian Express will be publishing parts of the Mitrokhin Archive on a daily basis. On their first day, they had this to say:
The Asian intelligence successes of which the Centre [HQ of the First Chief Directorate or FCD, the KGB’s foreign intelligence wing] was most proud were in India, the world’s second most populous state and largest democracy.
It was deeply ironic that the KGB should find democratic India so much more congenial an environment than Communist China, North Korea and Vietnam. Oleg Kalugin, who in 1973 became the youngest general in the FCD, remembers India as both a prestige target and ‘‘a model of KGB infiltration of a third world government’’. The openness of India’s democracy combined with the streak of corruption which ran through its media and political system provided numerous opportunities for Soviet intelligence.
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