LAHORE- According to AS Dulat, former head of Indian intelligence agencyRAW (Research and Analysis Wing), Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is inbreakable and RAW could not dent it.
He said India’s biggest intel failure was that they couldn’t turn an ISIofficer or had any ISI officer working for them.
He made these revelations in his book, co-authored by ex-head of ISI, *TheSpy Chronicles RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace. *While answering thequestion asked by the moderator of the conversation between two formerchiefs, Dulat said, “Our biggest failure against Pakistan is that we’ve notbeen able to turn around an ISI officer or have an ISI officer working forus. Or not to my knowledge, at a level where it counts.”
“If you go back to the Cold War, what was the main task of a CIA officer?It was to somehow find a defector,” shared Dulat and added, “If a CIA guyfound a defector then for the rest of his career he didn’t need to doanything, because he had done what was supremely required.”
According to Dulat, while RAW tried to find a defector in ISI, theycouldn’t, and that’s the biggest failure of Indian spy agency.
A defector is someone who turns against his own agency and starts workingfor the enemy.
While Dulat showed his disappointment for not finding anyone in ISI whowould turn against Pakistan, Asad Durrani, former ISI chief, shared thatthey have had pretty good intel from India in 1965.