According to the archive, the KGB’s presence in New Delhi was the largest outside of the Soviet Union. The documents claim that:
Vikram clicked open the file on his tablet, scrolling past the preface to the section marked India . mitrokhin archive india pdf
The “India PDF” has become a political weapon. Stripped of footnotes, context, and Mitrokhin’s own biases, it is often used to paint India as a Soviet puppet state – a gross oversimplification. India was a strategic partner of the USSR, not a colony. The archive also shows KGB failures: they never recruited a top Indian nuclear scientist or a senior military strategist. According to the archive, the KGB’s presence in
The Mitrokhin notes detail how the KGB used Indian journalists and academics to spread anti-American and anti-NATO propaganda. Specifically, the archive claims that the KGB helped plant stories in Indian newspapers suggesting that the CIA was responsible for the creation of Bhopal's Union Carbide disaster or that the US was plotting to assassinate Indira Gandhi (which ultimately happened via Sikh extremists, not the CIA). The Mitrokhin notes detail how the KGB used
Years after the initial revelations, a cache of Mitrokhin Archive documents related to India was leaked online in the form of a PDF. The documents, which had been obtained by a group of investigative journalists, detailed the KGB's operations in India, including the names of agents, informants, and Indian officials who had collaborated with the Soviet intelligence agency.