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"The External Affairs Ministry virtually functions as a wing of the Kremlin ... The Defence and Foreign Ministers shuttle back and forth between Kremlin and Delhi like errand boys." https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1354750026027737092
"[W]hen Manmohan Singh was trying to dissuade me from becoming the foreign minister because of Washington's active opposition to my name, he confided in me about the all-pervasive influence of the Americans in the Indian power set-up." - Natwar Singh https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/natwar-singh-cia-upa-sonia-gandhi-manmohan-singh-congress-202848-2014-08-04
“It seemed like the entire country was for sale; the KGB and the CIA had deeply penetrated the Indian government ... neither side entrusted sensitive information to the Indians, realising their enemy would know all about it the next day.” - Oleg Kalugin https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-kgb-papers-it-seemed-like-the-entire-country-was-for-sale/cid/1023636#
"Kalugin recalls one occasion on which Andropov personally turned down an offer from an Indian minister, to provide information in return for $50,000, on the grounds that the KGB was already well supplied with material from the Indian Foreign and Defence Ministries."
"The KGB, in Kalugin’s view, was more successful than the CIA, partly because of its skill in exploiting the corruption which became endemic under Indira Gandhi’s regime.
Suitcases full of banknotes were...routinely taken to [her] house [she] did not even return the suitcases."
Suitcases full of banknotes were...routinely taken to [her] house [she] did not even return the suitcases."
