Lesser Known Facts About RAW, The Invisible Backbone Of India’s Defence Forces
Lesser Known Facts About RAW, The Invisible Backbone Of India’s Defence Forces 1. RAW was established on the 21st of September, 1968, in response to the Sino-Indian war. Following the failures of intelligence services, which were the responsibility of the Investigation Bureau (IB) at the time, during the Sino-Indian conflict in 1962 and the India-Pakistan conflict of 1965, the Indira Gandhi government had to take extreme measures to increase foreign intelligence gathering. This is when the government called on the services of the first director of RAW, Rameshwar Nath Kao. 2. RAW once turned around a strategic move made by Pakistan, against them. The Indian Airlines hijacking of aircraft Ganga back 1971, was in fact, a strategic move by RAW that subsequently gave India a reason to retaliate by banning flights by Pakistani aircraft. This would later have a significant impact on troop movement by Pakistani forces into East Pakistan during the 1...