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Govt amends rules to allow 2 year extension in tenure of RAW & IB chiefs after completion of their fixed 2 yr term. Current govt prefers longer terms for RAW & IB chiefs. Previous intel chiefs got extension. Current chiefs are already on a one year extension.

China spends more on Internal security than on defence. CIA had built a network of informants inside china. Mostly recruiting them when they visit abroad. But then China's intel agencies busted them. Spies were dealt with ruthlessly. Many disappeared. Some were executed. NYT - Killing C.I.A...

I'm too curious about RAW's ops inside china. Quite possibly one of the most difficult country to operate. Or I wonder whether RAW's ops are restricted to Tibet. Few years ago I came across this India Today article published in 1993 which says RAW uses smugglers to do spying in Tibet. Source...

Spy Madhuri Gupta dead. Death of former diplomat buries spy case

Decades long strategy of Paki intelligence ( ISI and MI) is to recruit low level personnel in Indian security establishment. These are low cost ops but can be a hit or miss. Some of these fellows may have access to sensitive information. Surely RAW must have informants inside paki...

Have you heard of Ratan Sehgal? He was a very senior officer in IB's counter intelligence division. His own division caught him having clandestine meetings with two American diplomats( who later turned out to be CIA station chief and deputy chief). He was dismissed from his job but was not...

There are atleast 10 known incidents of defections in RAW. Mostly it's CIA. Offering green cards or citizenship or student visas are powerful incentives which CIA uses to recruit. They managed to penetrate the highest levels of mighty KGB multiple times. RAW not as good as KGB so CIA has a field...

Cross posting from Pegasus thread. Posting here as there is no separate thread for IB.

Times of India - RAW, IB training IRS officers in ‘intelligence tradecraft’ RAW, IB training IRS officers in ‘intelligence tradecraft’ Revenue service officers drawn from the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax, Serious Fraud Investigation Office, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and CBI...

It is the review of the book 'Raw: A History of India’s Covert Operations' by Yatish Yadav. The review is done by Rahul Bedi. He is brutal in his review and calls out the book's author amateurish writing & not speaking much of RAW's failures. Also says RAW is ridiculed as ‘Joke and Dagger’...

I don't endorse this authors views. Just sharing this article here. Yatish Yadav looks inside Raw, India's external spy agency

Seven personnel! Something very serious. Navy's many sensitive installations in vizag.