The CIA's Battlefield Was India — And They Admitted It

 

What declassified CIA documents revealed:

India was the playground of intelligence games between the CIA and the KGB. This admission came from the Americans themselves. And in this playground, RAW was the referee nobody expected. Scroll.in

The CIA's own 1985 secret report, declassified in December 2011, gives details of how the Americans saw KGB activities in India up to November 1985. The fact that the CIA was tracking KGB's moves inside India so obsessively reveals just how strategically vital India was — and how both superpowers feared India developing a truly independent, powerful intelligence apparatus. Scroll.in

When RAW was born in 1968, the CIA had already been operating in India for over a decade. And yet within a few years, RAW had neutralized enough of those operations that the CIA started documenting its own setbacks.