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Article: Allegations of KGB infilitration rattle India; Book paints sordid picture of alliance with the Soviet Union during the Cold War
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- September 29, 2005
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NEW DELHI - The documents paint a sordid picture of India's Cold
War alliance with the Soviet Union: newspapers bankrolled by the KGB
to plant thousands of articles and agents making midnight deliveries
of suitcases full of cash to the prime minister's house.
It was a time, a KGB official said, when "the entire country was
for sale."
The revelations, in a newly published book based on KGB archives,
have embarrassed India's ruling Congress Party - in power then and
now - and have been a field day for the press.
"Indira's India was KGB playground," read the headline in India's
Sunday Times, referring to then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
But analysts said the accounts, from a recently ...