KGB bribed Congress Government, Indian Commies and the bureaucracy!

A new book written by a former KGB head has alleged that the spies of former Soviet intelligence agency KGB swarmed the Indian bureaucracy and that it bribed Indian politicians, newspapers in the 1970s to prevent India from switching loyalties during the height of cold war.

“The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World,” being published one year after the death of former KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin says a high-ranking KGB officer paid millions of roubles to keep the then Congress led Government, media, one press agency and the Indian communists happy and not to switch loyalties. The book also says India was one of the countries successfully penetrated by the KGB outside the Soviet bloc.

“We had scores of sources throughout the Indian government: in intelligence, counterintelligence, the defense and foreign ministries and police,” former Soviet head of counterintelligence Oleg Kalugin was quoted as saying by the book’s authors, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitokhin, a former KGB officer.

The book has named former Railways Minister in the Indira Gandhi cabinet Lalit Narayan Mishra as one of the biggest recipient of KGB money. It said the KGB successfully convinced Gandhi that Mishra’s death in a bomb blast in 1974 was a “CIA hit-job.”

The book is based on files that Mitrokhin stole in 1992 while defecting to Britain. The book also accused the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. of fomenting an insurgency in India’s remote northeast and a Sikh separatist movement in Punjab.