I've discovered the secrets of the USSR that are above the water, what seems to be below the water is going to be much more painful and harder to find, but I'm not giving up just yet

here I go explaining again

The KGB(secret service of the Soviets) had so many agents and sources that then KGB chief Yuri Andropov turned down an offer by an Indian cabinet minister for a payment of $50,000 in exchange for information. Suitcases of cash were sent to then prime minister Indira Gandhi for her party's war chest, not to mention vast sums of money funnelled to the CPI.

All this and much more is alleged in two chapters of The Mitrokhin Archive II, due for publication in India next month. Extracts, however, appeared in the press, leading to a blizzard of denials and protestations from the Congress and the Left.

Their injured innocence has failed to dent the credibility of the book and its intriguing contents. When The Mitrokhin Archive was published in 1999, the book created a tsunami in western intelligence circles because of the authoritativeness and detailed information copied from thousands of KGB files.

that's more about the Mitrokhin Archives, now to focus more on what all stuff the KGB did in India.

Indira Gandhi with Leonid Brezhnev in Delhi

The first book was on KGB operations in Europe and the US. The sequel, also co-authored by Christopher Andrew, a leading scholar on intelligence matters, focuses on KGB penetration in other parts of the world, including India. The book's thesis is that the Soviet Union decided the Third World was the arena in which it could win the Cold War by proxy.(Proving that India was just a toy for the USSR to win the cold war and gain more power along with influence)

Two chapters titled The Special Relationship with India detail the scale of KGB operations in India and the extent of the penetration. Judging by the contents, both were pretty successful.

The book claims that the maximum operational effort by the KGB in a Third World country during the Cold War was in India and that the number of KGB agents in India during the 1970s was the largest outside the Soviet Union. The more sensational disclosures include:

Indira Gandhi, codenamed VANO by the KGB,was sent suitcases of money meant for the Congress coffers. On one occasion, a secret gift of Rs 2 million from the Politburo to the Congress(R) was personally delivered by the KGB head in India Leonid Shebarshin. Another million rupees were given on the same occasion to a newspaper supporting Mrs Gandhi.

In 1978, the KGB was running over 30 agents in India, 10 of whom were Indian intelligence officers.

In 1977, KGB files identified 21 non communist politicians (four union ministers) whose election campaigns were subsidised by the KGB.

The CPI was funded in many ways, including transfer of money through car windows on Delhi roads.

In 1959, CPI general-secretary Ajoy Ghosh agreed on a plan to found an import-export business for trade with the Soviet bloc. In little more than a decade its annual profits grew to over Rs 3 million.

During 1975, a total of 10.6 million roubles was spent on active measures in India designed to strengthen the support for Mrs Gandhi and undermine her political opponents.

V. Krishna Menon, as defence minister, was persuaded to buy Soviet MiGs and not British Lightnings. His election campaigns in 1962 and 1967 were funded by the KGB.

By 1973, the KGB had 10 Indian newspapers on its payroll plus a press agency. During 1975 the KGB planted 5,510 articles in Indian newspapers.

Promode Dasgupta, the communist stalwart,wasidentifiedby theKGB asan Intelligence Bureau (IB) informant in the Indian communist movement.

(Proving that we were a huge source of power and influence that could help them win the cold war)

The question being raised in India is whether the authors have sexed up the spy story. CPI General-Secretary A.B.Bardhan says, "It is a slander." The truth is that there have been any number of sources and books, including the Cold War International History Project in Washington, which detailed the KGB penetration in India.(Which I will try to find the online versions of and then update more about this, I'm not giving up on finding everything I can on this)

Two earlier memoirs of KGB officials, including Shebarshin, former KGB resident in Delhi, also detailed its operations in India. M.K. Dhar, former IB director, in his book Open Secrets, wrote that the IB had succeeded in "identifying four Union ministers (in Indira Gandhi's cabinet) and over two dozen MPs who were on the KGB payroll".

He went on to state that "the most surprising area of KGB penetration was the Defence Ministry and those layers of the armed forces which were responsible for military procurement". Andrew told INDIA TODAY much the same (see interview).

The main objections to the latest revelations concern Mrs Gandhi and the money allegedly paid to her by the Soviets. Here again, the book states, "The primeminister is unlikely to have paid close attention to the dubious origins of some of the funds which went into the Congress coffers.

till now we've found out that the USSR wanted to keep Indira Gandhi in power for as long as they could. Why? because she was shameless enough and she was willing to SELL India to USSR, thankfully she was assassinated in time.

now I had questions about this, and I've found the answers and will be explaining them here too

Q. How credible is the book?
A. The difficulty of forging a truckload of material which must not contradict anything that is in public record, is impossible. Meaning, it is very true and this was all recording by the KGB agents in India, so there are proper records and files of this happening along with other undeniable evidence.

Q. The reaction from India?
A. There are people who take the view that Indian political parities are models of propriety ... others took a less sanguine view. The archives have been public record. There are other sources about the KGB's penetration in south Asia. So meaning, most Indians eventually found out but were helpless and couldn't do anything.

Q. But there are no names.
A. There is Oleg Kalugin, the youngest general in the KGB, and Shebarshin, the KGB's India specialist, who personally supplied convertible roubles and rupees to Indira Gandhi's Congress.

Q. The spin being given in India is that KGB agents were exaggerating their exploits.
A. This may be slightly controversial, but no. It's not exaggeration, there's too many evidence which shows its all real. Reality is harsh and painful, especially this reality of the true intentions of the Soviet Union.

This was largely left to her principal fund raiser L.N. Mishra, who-though she doubtless did not realise it-also accepted Soviet money." In fact, claims about Mrs Gandhi accepting money were also made by former US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan. (But it is true that Indira Gandhi was hugely accepting Soviet money)

He wrote in his memoir A Dangerous Place: "We had twice interfered in Indian politics to the extent of providing money to a political party. Both times the money was given to the Congress party,which had asked for it. Once it was given to Mrs Gandhi herself."(Meaning, Indira most probably knee the Soviets wanted to either buy India or use India. And she fucking went along with the plan)

What is suggested is that these were funds meant for the party and not for her personally, but Congress sycophants have overreacted in assuming the allegation is to do with Mrs Gandhi's personal integrity. "She always kept herself meticulously out of political funding of any kind," says V.C. Shukla, former minister and Congress veteran.(Which is suspicious and makes it more clear that it may have happened and they are trying to cover it up)

What does come across clearly is the book's premise that "the openness of India's democracy combined with the streak of corruption through its media and political system provided numerous opportunities for Soviet intelligence".

KGB operations in India expanded rapidly in the '50s and '60s, and not just within Indian borders. The book reveals that an Indian diplomat, codenamed PROKHOR, in the embassy in Moscow was recruited via the classic honey trap, compromised by a female KGB agent with the delicious code name of NEVEROVA. PROKHOR provided the agency with the embassy codebook and other material and was paid Rs 4,000 a month. Two other diplomats were also compromised.

Soviet efforts were clearly helped by India's anti-American policy at the time and the fact that strategically, American reliance on Pakistan as a counterweight to Soviet influence in India, pushed Delhi into Moscow's orbit. The book details how the then defence minister Krishna Menon, openly anti-American, was backed by the KGB on the assumption that he would succeed Nehru, a prospect that ended with the Chinese invasion in 1962.

The KGB then set out to woo Mrs Gandhi. Khrushchev presented her with a mink coat on her first solo visit to Moscow (Mrs Gandhi had earlier criticised an ambassador's wife for accepting a similar gift) and the KGB surrounded her with "handsome, attentive male admirers".

Apart from funding the CPI and other leftwing groups during the 1967 elections, the agency also funded several Congress candidates, including an "extremely influential" minister codenamed ABAD. The KGB was also helped by India's decision, started in Menon's time, of getting almost all its arms requirements from Moscow, which began arriving by the early '70s, as then Delhi's KGB resident head Shebarshin noted in the files, "in an endless stream".

Not that the KGB was the only agency active in India. Another noting by Oleg Kalugin, former KGB major-general, says, "It seemed like the entire country was for sale: the KGB and the CIA had deeply penetrated the Indian government."(Which shows that the Societs in a way were thinking of India as land to buy, showing they never cared about us and just used us)

Not just the government. The book alleges that the KGB had recruited one of India's most influential journalists, codenamed NOK. His anti-US articles were considered a major coup in the Lubyanka. However, they had other ways of stoking anti-US sentiments. In 1969, according to The Mitrokhin Archives, Andropov informed the Politburo in Moscow that they could "organise a demonstration of up to 20,000 Muslims in front of the US embassy in Delhi and that it would cost Rs 5,000. I request consideration." Leonid Brezhnev wrote, "Agreed on Andropov's request."

Where the KGB seems to exaggerate about its coups in India is in its conviction, noted in the archives, that they were able to influence Mrs Gandhi's anti-US policy. Certainly, Mrs Gandhi's anti-Americanism is a matter of public record. The signing of the Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty in 1971 was the icing on the bilateral cake. The fact is that it was strategic rather than ideological reasons that dictated Mrs Gandhi's pro-Soviet foreign policy.(Another reason why the Soviets wanted Indira to stay in power)

The book does have some other intriguing facts that have not been publicised. The KGB was keen to alter Sanjay Gandhi's open distrust of socialism. The book says they recruited a close friend of his code named PURI. The book also admits that the KGB tended to exaggerate its influence. The KGB miscalculated the post-Emergency election of 1977 too and failed to factor in the possibility of Indira losing by a landslide to the KGB's bete noire Morarji Desai.

but because of Soviet funding and help(which is considered electional fraud) Indira Gandhi won and ofcourse, it would benefit the Soviets.

they used our country in every single damn way they could.