Declassfied Reports, Documents and Literature on Indian Military and Intelligence Operations

[Indx TechStyle]

Defence Min Rajnath Singh approves archiving, declassification of India’s wars and other military operations
The policy envisages that each organisation under the Ministry of Defence will transfer the records, including war diaries, letters of proceedings and operational record books, etc to the History Division.

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday approved the policy on archiving, declassification and compilation and publication of India's war histories and other military operations by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

According to the Ministry of Defence, the policy envisages that each organisation under the MoD will transfer the records, including war diaries, letters of proceedings and operational record books, etc., to the History Division for proper upkeep, archival and writing the histories.

"The History Division will be responsible for coordination with various departments while compiling, seeking approval and publishing of war/operations histories," the ministry said.

"According to the policy, records should ordinarily be declassified in 25 years. Records older than 25 years should be appraised by archival experts and transferred to the National Archives of India once the war/ operations histories have been compiled," it added.

The defence ministry further stated that the policy also set clear timelines with regard to the compilation and publication of War/ Operations Histories. The above mentioned Committee should be formed within two years of completion of war/ operations. The War/Operations histories will be compiled within five years.

"The policy mandates constitution of a committee headed by Joint Secretary, MoD and comprising of representatives of the Services, MEA, MHA and other organisations and prominent military historians (if required), for compilation of War/ Operations Histories," it said.

 

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Reveal names of CIA moles of 1971 war: CIC

India Could Have Split West Pakistan in 1971

Records declassified a few years ago show that a dramatic turnaround came on 6 December when a CIA operative leaked out India’s “war objectives” to the agency. Then Prime Minister Gandhi had actually informed her top ministers in a meeting that, apart from liberating Bangladesh, India intended to take over a strategically important part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and go for total annihilation of Pakistan’s armed forces so that Pakistan “never attempts to challenge India in the future”.

When he came to know of the CIA report, a furious Nixon blurted out that “this woman (Indira Gandhi) suckered us”, for he was under the impression that in their last interaction at Washington, Mrs Gandhi had promised him that India wouldn’t attack East Pakistan―not to speak of targeting West Pakistan and PoK.

The CIA went on to assess that fulfillment of India’s “war objectives” might lead to “the emergence of centrifugal forces which could shatter West Pakistan into as many as three or four separate countries”.

As a direct result of the operative’s information, the Nixon administration went on an overdrive to save West Pakistan from a massive Indian assault.

Records very clearly demonstrate that Nixon then threatened the USSR with a “major confrontation”, should the Soviets fail to stop the Indians from penetrating West Pakistan. Kissinger secretly met China’s Permanent Representative at the UN to apprise him of the CIA operative’s report and rub it in that India’s plan for Pakistan with Soviet backing could turn out to be a “dress rehearsal” of what they might do to China.

All this led to the USSR’s first Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov visiting New Delhi and telling India “to confine their objectives to East Pakistan” and “not to try and take any part of West Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir”, as “Moscow was concerned about the possibility of a great power confrontation over the subcontinent”. Kuznetsov also extracted a guarantee from Prime Minister Gandhi that India would not attack West Pakistan. This decision was promptly conveyed to Nixon.

On 16 December 1971 when Nixon was told that India had declared a ceasefire, he exulted: “We have made it…it’s the Russians working for us.” Secretary of State Henry Kissinger congratulated him for saving West Pakistan―India’s primary target, as per the operative’s report to the CIA.

In subsequent years, former Prime Minister Morarji Desai, and two deputy PMs―Jagjivan Ram and Y.B. Chavan ― were alleged to be the CIA operative active during the 1971 war.

However, all such charges lacked substantiation; there was no confirmation whether or not such an operative ever existed. As such, no constructive discussion on the issue ever took off. This changed after the release of unassailable US records making it clear that the CIA actually had a “reliable” source operating from inside the Indian cabinet in 1971.

In declassified records, the name of the operative has been censored because the CIA Director has “statutory obligations to protect from disclosure (the agency’s) intelligence sources”. Naming the operative even after so many years will obviously adversely impact the Indo-US relations, and hit the agency’s prospects of recruiting new informants.

The question now arises: Does India know who that traitor was that leaked out 1971 war plan? Former joint director of the Intelligence Bureau Late Maloy Krishna Dhar, no relation of this writer, told me yes.

However, my efforts to get that name officially did not succeed. In 2010, I asked the Prime Minister’s Office whether or not the office had received inputs from the Research and Analysis Wing about the identity of the minister who was said to have leaked information to the CIA during the 1971 war.

I was informed that the inputs from R&AW were exempt from disclosure under the Right to Information Act. To me, it would mean that somewhere in the R&AW archives are lying details of the Indian version of Tinker Tailor Solider Spy. And ours was for real.

 

[t 90s]

i would love to read exploits of Colonel Rawjesh. I read somewhere he is the most dreaded person in pakistan.

 

[not so dravidian]

i would love to read exploits of Colonel Rawjesh. I read somewhere he is the most dreaded person in pakistan.

mate you have no idea


https://defenceforumindia.com/threads/indias-first-line-of-defence-raw.81742/

^^^^^
u can go through this thread for earlier ops, and has most info

Col. RAWjesh is at most , a meme

i think others can hook you up on other info's

 

[t 90s]

mate you have no idea


https://defenceforumindia.com/threads/indias-first-line-of-defence-raw.81742/

^^^^^
u can go through this thread for earlier ops, and has most info

Col. RAWjesh is at most , a meme

i think others can hook you up on other info's

R/Wooosh

 

[Vamsi]

I hope they declassify the findings of TSD , Col.Hunny Bakshi and Col Purohit ,then it will be the final nail in the coffin of our vulture opposition