tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17836134660536127482011-09-12T17:58:16.960+05:30Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-15496100858696709762009-07-11T11:24:00.002+05:302009-07-11T11:27:54.536+05:30

Today's Times of India carries the above report on my latest RTI bid. And, for a fresh start, my friends and I have started a new site. www.endthesecrecy.com. Please visit and tell your friends about it.Or, follow these links:PMO has a secret report on Lal Bahadur Shastri's death but won't release itLess secrecy will do good to India

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-39095216894802069092009-06-16T11:34:00.001+05:302009-06-16T11:36:50.352+05:30

Have received a further response from the Ministry of Home Affairs. It seems the statement made by the Ministry of External Affairs that the MHA has no information on the 1971 CIA spy case is not the last word. The latest response from the MHA suggests that they will come up with a final response.Internal Security Division's Legal Cell has informed that the "subject matter does not pertain to the

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This is it. The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office have conveyed to the Ministry of External Affairs that they don't have any information concerning the 1971 CIA spy case, brining about a near closure to the matter so far as they are concerned. The PMO had earlier stated on these lines only. The latest response from the MEA comes in compliance of the CIC order following a

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-32263908440333770312009-06-01T10:02:00.005+05:302009-06-02T10:11:14.422+05:30

Days after the Central Information Commission received by complain about the Ministry of External Affairs not complying with their order, the Ministry has sent me a reply in response to the CIC order. And guess what it implies? That a declassified US State Department record cited by me is full of fabrications.Before I get down to explaining this piece of joke, let me recapitulate the matter. The

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-68765608059792268182009-05-12T15:57:00.005+05:302009-05-12T16:06:27.417+05:30

The Ministry of External Affairs has failed to respond in time to an order by the Central Information Commission to release information which could help pin down the name of a Central Intelligence Agency agent operating out of Indira Gandhi's cabinet.An unnamed "reliable source", as per the declassified CIA and State Department records, had leaked out India's war objectives and other vital

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-29482748256341170422009-04-25T14:31:00.006+05:302009-05-04T21:10:49.490+05:30

The Ministry of External Affairs has been told by the Central Information Commission to provide me within 20 days "point-wise information" relating to the 1971 CIA spy case. "In the event some of the information is available with any other Ministry, the CPIO, MEA to obtain the information and provide the same to the Appellant," the CIC further said.The directive comes after a hearing before

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-74114981963941335762009-03-17T10:51:00.003+05:302009-03-17T10:57:15.488+05:30

As it takes you on a fast-paced geopolitical journey, CIA's Eye on South Asia (Manas Publications, Delhi) offers an insight into the working of the world's foremost spy agency through various reports presented to top US officials from 1951 to 2001.These previously secret Central Intelligence Agency reports have become available largely because of a recent Presidential Executive Order which

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Mr Rajive Kumar, Joint Secretary & First Appellate Authority at the Cabinet Secretariat, has responded belatedly to my appeal against the Central Public Information Officer's decision to deny information pertaining to the 1971 war spy case.The latest response has come days after I filed an appeal with the Central Information Commission, with copies cc to the CPIO and Appellate Authority at the

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-72922480711834968182009-02-23T17:12:00.002+05:302009-02-23T17:16:14.412+05:30

The second 1971 CIA spy-related case has now gone to the Central Information. After the Cabinet Secretariat refused to release records and information having a bearing on the matter on the ground that doing so "would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India," I filed an appeal with the Joint Secretary & First Appellate Authority at the Cabinet Secretariat -- which is located in

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-9246491944600736522009-02-10T16:37:00.003+05:302009-02-10T16:41:44.245+05:30

I have approached the Central Information Commission over the stand taken by the Ministry of External Affairs that the records pertaining to the recurring allegations that a minister of Indira Gandhi's cabinet had spied for the CIA during the 1971 war.For a background, you might like to see this post -- MEA says can't give more than 20 years old record under RTIIn brief, the Ministry, which

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-49790657637350147692009-01-19T20:32:00.002+05:302009-01-19T20:41:51.277+05:30

A decade before a CIA operative compromised India's war objectives during the Bangladesh war, someone higher-up was evidently keeping the agency informed about the inside politics of the Nehru government.Declassified CIA records provide ample indications the agency was able to infiltrate the top echelons of the Indian establishment in the 1960s as well. A case in point is a declassified November

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-56485755030303277572009-01-05T14:49:00.004+05:302009-01-10T21:13:34.111+05:30

The Cabinet Secretariat has refused to release records and information having a bearing on the allegations that a minister of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet supplied vital national security information to the CIA during the Bangladesh war. But why? "Disclosure of information sought would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India for which reason, access to the information is denied,"

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-43627457059979452712008-12-27T23:08:00.002+05:302009-01-10T21:10:02.946+05:30

If the response of the Prime Minister's Office was precise, the same cannot be said about the reply Ministry of External Affairs has sent to yours truly. The MEA appears to have information relating to the old allegations that a minister of Indira Gandhi's cabinet had spied for the CIA during the 1971 war, but won't part with it.Just as was the case with the PMO, the MEA had been approached by me

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-42843110261153667272008-12-24T17:10:00.001+05:302008-12-24T17:10:51.917+05:30

Imagine a top American journalist claiming that a former Prime Minister of India was a CIA operative for years. Imagine that former Prime Minister going all the way to the US to fight a legal battle to offset this terrible assault on his reputation. Many of you will recall that this actually happened in the case of Morarji Desai. At the fag end of his life, he was described as a long-time CIA

Anuj Dharnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783613466053612748.post-39196263555837775242008-10-28T15:28:00.004+05:302009-05-12T16:08:10.656+05:30

A minister of Indira Gandhi's cabinet betrayed India's "war objectives" to the Central Intelligence Agency in December 1971, causing an abrupt end to the Bangladesh war under vicious US armtwisting.This is the highlight of the book CIA's Eye on South Asia by journalist Anuj Dhar. Published by Delhi-based Manas Publications, which is facing government's ire for coming out with a book on the R&AW,

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