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Over a Period of 1947-84 India Looked like Country for Sale for Money Power

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Neither Nehru nor the IB, however, realized how thoroughly the Indian embassy in Moscow was being penetrated by the KGB, using its usual varieties of Honey Trap

1950s, with the help of a female swallow, codenamed NEVEROVA, who presumably seduced Indian diplomat codenamed PROKHOR

In May 1962 the Soviet Presidium authorized the KGB residency in New Delhi to conduct active-measures operations to strengthen Menon's position & enhance his personal popularity
During Menon's tenure India's main source of arms imports switched from the West to the Soviet Union.

Later on KGB was in Not in contact with either Nanda or Shastri.

Moscow's main reason for supporting them was, almost certainly, negative rather than positive - to prevent the right-wing Hindu traditionalist Morarji Desai

Then it was Indira Gandhi (codenamed VANO by the KGB)

Influence of KGB is 1967 Elections :

After the elections of February 1967, the KGB claimed, doubtless optimistically, that it was able to influence 30 to 40 per cent of the new parliament.

leading figure in the Congress Forum for Socialist Action was recruited in 1971 as Agent RERO and paid about 100,000 rupees a year for what the KGB considered important political intelligence as well as acting as an agent recruiter.

In the early 1970s, the KGB presence in India became one of the largest in the world outside the Soviet bloc

Indira Gandhi placed no limit on the number of Soviet diplomats and trade officials, thus allowing the KGB and GRU as many cover positions as they wished.

Suitcases full of bank notes were said to be routinely taken to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's house. Former Syndicate member S. K. Patil is reported to have said that Mrs Gandhi did not even return the suitcases.

'The KGB residency in India has the opportunity to organize a protest demonstration of up to 20,000 Muslims in front of the US embassy in India.

The cost of the demonstration would be 5,000 rupees and would be covered in the... budget for special tasks in India.

In April 1971, two months after Mrs Gandhi's landslide election victory, the Politburo approved the establishment of a secret fund of 2.5 million convertible rubles (codenamed DEPO) to fund active-measures operations in India over the next four years.

Reports from the New Delhi main residency, headed from 1975 to 1977 by Leonid Shebarshin, claimed (probably greatly exaggerated) credit for using its agents of influence to persuade Mrs Gandhi to declare the emergency.

To ensure success it mounted a major operation, codenamed KASKAD, involving over 120 meetings with agents during the 1977 election campaign. Nine of the Congress (R) candidates at the 1977 elections were KGB agents.

During 1975, a total of 10.6 million roubles was spent on active measures in India designed to strengthen the support for Mrs Gandhi & undermine her political opponents.

Picture : THE GREAT BEAR HUG: Mrs Indira Gandhi with Leonid Brezhnev in Delhi

By 1973, the KGB had 10 Indian newspapers on its payroll plus a press agency. During 1975 the KGB planted 5,510 articles in Indian newspapers.

Just Imagine How Our Country was during this Period of Congress Ruling

Source : The Mitrokhin Archive II written by Vasili Mitrokhin