ISLAMABAD – International Court of Justice verdict against KulbhushanJadhav comes as a blow to troubled RAW agents history across the World.
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) verdict, that upheld Pakistanimilitary court’s death sentence to Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, willfurther demoralize several RAW agents, many of whom have alreadydisappeared without a trace.
Do not take our words for it; here’s what the Indian media says.
Multiple prestigious media outlets in the neighboring country have revealedthat over the years, many RAW agents on foreign postings have vanishedcompletely. Several of them became moles to international intelligenceagencies or worked as a double agent before completely disappearing.——————————
In 2004, leading Indian Magazine *Outlook*linkpublished a detailed report on the disgruntled Indian spies who defected toforeign countries.
For the first time, the firm has admitted that eight of its key operativeshave gone missing—almost all while on critical assignments outside thecountry— since the agency’s creation in the late ’60s.
The magazine went on to report that most of them disappeared on theirposts, now living in the USA, Canada or England under assumed names andfalse passports.
A number of them, it now turns out, were well-guarded ‘assets’ in the handsof foreign agencies, a euphemism for double agents, and are now greencardholders in the United States or UK citizens.
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*Deccan Herald*link–another leading Indian daily had published a report on April 2010 statingthat RAW had a history of operatives who switched loyalties during theirforeign assignments.
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India’s external Intelligence agency RAW also has a history of officialsswitching their loyalties to foreign agencies. The most infamous case whichshook RAW out of reverie was that of Rabinder Singh who became a mole ofthe American intelligence agency.
In the same month, *NDTV*link–another renowned newspaper in India reported that an Indian diplomatstationed in Islamabad was called back after she was found to be ‘leakingimportant information’ to a Pakistani man she fell in love with.
Meanwhile, the noted former RAW Chief A.S Dulat has confessed that theIndian spy agency has failed to lure any ISI official to work as their mole.
In his book “The Spy Chronicles, RAW, ISI, and Illusion of Peace” publishedin 2018, the former Indian Spymaster wrote:
Or not to my knowledge, at a level where it counts. If you go back to theCold War, the main task of a CIA officer was to find a defector somehow. Ifa CIA guy found a defector then for the rest of his career, he didn’t needto do anything, because he had done what was supremely required. On ourside, I don’t think we’ve ever imagined it properly, and I don’t thinkwe’ve succeeded.
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Indian media is rife with the stories of officers of their armed forcesbeing ‘honey-trapped’ by ISI officials to leak out ‘sensitive information.’
Earlier this year, an Economic Timeslinkstoryhad pointed out a case where an alleged female ISI operative disguised asan Indian doctor had successfully lured at least 50 Indian army officials.
