The Lesser Known Story Of R&AW
Story of gradually tearing down India’s external intelligence wing- R&AW and betraying the Kaoboys.
After India’s performance in the1962 border war with China, the need for a separate external intelligence agency was clear. Maj. Gen. VK Singh, a retired army officer who did a stint in RAW writes in his book, India’s External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing-
During that conflict, “our intelligence failed to detect Chinese build up for the attack,”
R&AW has many success associated with its name: India’s triumph in the 1971 war with Pakistan, and India’s covert assistance to the African National Congress’s anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa to creation of Bangladesh from East-Pakistan by strengthening Mukti Bahini group. RAW also facilitated the northeastern state of Sikkim’s accession to India in 1975, and provided military assistance to groups hostile to the pro-China regime in Myanmar, such as the Kachin Independence Army.
