Articles in Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW
Role of R&AW during Emergency
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 12 Jul , 2023
When Kao had come to Paris to introduce me to Alexandre de Marenches, he was in receipt of a top secret coded message from a senior leader of the Congress (I), a Kashmiri, who was known to be...
The Khalistani Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 07 Jul , 2023
In the first few years after India’s independence, the Sikh migrants from Punjab constituted the largest single group of Indian origin in the Indian diaspora in the UK, the US and Canada. Some...
Role of R&AW in Liberation of Bangladesh
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 27 Nov , 2021
Covert action capability is an indispensable tool for any State having external adversaries. Its purpose is not just collection of intelligence, but the protection of national interests and the...
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 20 Sep , 2020
Till 1985, the IB was the over-all in charge of the security of the Prime Minister — while he or she was in Delhi as well as during his or her travels in India and abroad. The IB’s...
R&AW and Bofors
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 28 Sep , 2019
I was posted in Geneva as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN organizations based in Geneva from April 1985 to May,1988. I handled work relating to the International...
The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 05 Nov , 2018
A few months after I had retired and settled down in Chennai, the late S.A. Subbiah, who had succeeded me in Geneva and subsequently became the head of the Sri Lanka division in the headquarters,...
Rajiv Gandhi and R&AW
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 25 Oct , 2018
During the little over five years he was the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi had three chiefs of the R&AW. G.C.Saxena, an IPS officer of the UP cadre,who had taken over as the chief in April, 1983...
Indo-French intelligence cooperation: High expectations, poor results!
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 26 Aug , 2018
The 1971 war highlighted two major deficiencies of the R&AW. The first was its poor capability for the collection of maritime intelligence in the Indian Ocean region. The second was its lack of...
Angry & Bitter with the State Department
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: The Kaoboys of R&AW | Date: 25 May , 2018
Throughout my 26 years in the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency, I was known as a man with a poker face. As someone, who showed no emotions or passion on...