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INDIA’S FORMER SPY BOSS SAYS NEGATION OF VITAL INFORMATION OF LTTE LED TO RAJIV KILLING BY THEM

By Walter Jayawardhana

In a newly published book one of India’s retired spy bosses B.A. Raman has revealed that the negligence of vital information by certain responsible people about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had led to the assassination of India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

In his new book Raman has revealed that the information passed by a German spy about a LTTE operative who was a bomb expert frequenting Tamil Nadu has been negated by the Intelligence Bureau led to the security break down of the former Prime Minister who was assassinated by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber at Siriperumbudur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Raman has said that the IB had negated the vital German warning by saying that its own findings had revealed that the alleged person frequenting Tamil Nadu had scant knowledge on bomb making. Raman was an additional Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s equivalent of the CIA.

Commenting on Raman’s assessment of the situation , India’s largest selling newspaper the Times of India said, “The account is in agreement with the estimate in certain informed quarters that IB's LTTE desk had then failed to react to cipher messages used by Tamil Tigers.”

During the time of the Premiership of Indira Gandhi , Rajiv Gandhi’s mother, under her directions India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) where Raman worked was also responsible of training funding and arming of the LTTE , to spite Sri Lanka’s then president Junius Jayewardene, who was thought to be pro-US during that period of cold war international politics. But when Sri Lanka went into a turmoil US refused to help directly not to antagonize India.

Under the regime of Rajiv Gandhi , the former policy was completely reversed , and an Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was sent to Sri Lanka to disarm the LTTE , that antagonized the LTTE against Rajiv Gandhi.

Raman, an intelligence insider of the Prime Ministers office in his new book , “Kaoboys of R&AW - Down the memory lane,” has exposed intelligence failure that led to the assassination of the former Prime Minister which the Times of India said would “sure to kick up a controversy as some senior officials then handling IB affairs also hold key security assignments in the present dispensation.”
The book has also alleged that intelligence agencies of France and the United States also penetrated the Prime Ministers office and in the 1980’s the CIA had a mole in the RAW. He has also revealed that the RAW was hampered by factionalism and poor strategic planning.

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