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above the water

I've discovered the secrets of the USSR that are above the water, what seems to be below the water is going to be much more painful and harder to find, but I'm not giving up just yet

here I go explaining again

The KGB(secret service of the Soviets) had so many agents and sources that then KGB chief Yuri Andropov turned down an offer by an Indian cabinet minister for a payment of $50,000 in exchange for information. Suitcases of cash were sent to then prime minister Indira Gandhi for her party's war chest, not to mention vast sums of money funnelled to the CPI.

All this and much more is alleged in two chapters of The Mitrokhin Archive II, due for publication in India next month. Extracts, however, appeared in the press, leading to a blizzard of denials and protestations from the Congress and the Left.

Their injured innocence has failed to dent the credibility of the book and its intriguing contents. When The Mitrokhin Archive was published in 1999, the book created a tsunami in western intelligence circles because of the authoritativeness and detailed information copied from thousands of KGB files.

that's more about the Mitrokhin Archives, now to focus more on what all stuff the KGB did in India.

Indira Gandhi with Leonid Brezhnev in Delhi

The first book was on KGB operations in Europe and the US. The sequel, also co-authored by Christopher Andrew, a leading scholar on intelligence matters, focuses on KGB penetration in other parts of the world, including India. The book's thesis is that the Soviet Union decided the Third World was the arena in which it could win the Cold War by proxy.(Proving that India was just a toy for the USSR to win the cold war and gain more power along with influence)

Two chapters titled The Special Relationship with India detail the scale of KGB operations in India and the extent of the penetration. Judging by the contents, both were pretty successful.

The book claims that the maximum operational effort by the KGB in a Third World country during the Cold War was in India and that the number of KGB agents in India during the 1970s was the largest outside the Soviet Union. The more sensational disclosures include:

Indira Gandhi, codenamed VANO by the KGB,was sent suitcases of money meant for the Congress coffers. On one occasion, a secret gift of Rs 2 million from the Politburo to the Congress(R) was personally delivered by the KGB head in India Leonid Shebarshin. Another million rupees were given on the same occasion to a newspaper supporting Mrs Gandhi.

In 1978, the KGB was running over 30 agents in India, 10 of whom were Indian intelligence officers.

In 1977, KGB files identified 21 non communist politicians (four union ministers) whose election campaigns were subsidised by the KGB.

The CPI was funded in many ways, including transfer of money through car windows on Delhi roads.

In 1959, CPI general-secretary Ajoy Ghosh agreed on a plan to found an import-export business for trade with the Soviet bloc. In little more than a decade its annual profits grew to over Rs 3 million.

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