There is a big difference between the two. Shastri ji ke death ke 10 saalon ke andar India ko phir se colonize kiya gaya. Why do I call it propaganda? Mitrokhin explains that he made notes on pieces of paper, stuffed them into his shoes, typed it at his home and hid it under the floor. Or should I say, this is what we have been told. 2, The World was Going our Way). archivist never had access to a copying machine, but had to copy thousands of pages in longhand. Why? Can such a director be relied upon to find the truth about Shastri ji's death? He told a story so fanciful that the CIA officers considered it to be an entirely fraudulent effort. I say this because the CIA has a long history of overthrowing democratically elected govts and replacing them with puppet govts or dictators, indulging in proxy war, political assassinations, false flag operations, terror atttacks and more. Gullible Hindus support that individual to the extreme at the cost of facts. And what's the basis for this claim? The notes allege that some 35 senior politicians in France worked for the KGB during the Cold War. Was he controlled by Russia too?!! Taking their word at face value would be as silly and ridiculous as trusting the word of Pakistan that India engages in cross-border terrorism in Pakistan !! This decision, ISC believed, was for the Law Officers to take, not the SIS. [62], The Andrew and Mitrokhin publications briefly describe the history of the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, who established close collaboration with the Romanian Securitate service and the KGB in the early 1970s. (Senate Report 94-755, Book I â Glossary, 26 Apr 1976) The commission was shut down in 2006 without having developed any new concrete evidence beyond the original information in the Mitrokhin Archive. So now, one has to take his word for it. It shouldn't be hard to guess !!! Garrison gave up on the concept of a âhomosexual thrill killingâ since he now had âproofâ of something much bigger through the Paese Sera articles. A very bad trend for the future of India. Mitrokhin, who was by that time the head of the Archives department, was assigned by the director of the First Directorate, Vladimir Kryuchkov, with the task of cataloging the documents and overseeing their orderly transfer to the new headquarters. But that's okay. Following the death of Mitrokhin in 2004, Andrew wrote another book titled 'The World Was Going Our Way' which, among other things, details the secret operations of the KGB in India. Following the death of Mitrokhin in 2004, Andrew wrote another book titled 'The World Was Going Our Way' which, among other things, details the secret operations of the KGB in India. Since Mitrokhin's archive comprises of his notes and did not include any official document or photocopy, it cannot be considered as evidence in a court of law. [not specific enough to verify] He gave Nikolai Leonov a secret program of the Sandinista movement (FSLN), which stated the FSLN's intent to lead class struggle in Central America, in alliance with Cuba and the Soviet bloc. It doesn't take a great researcher to uncover this information as one can find all these facts, and more, by a simple Google search. But, on the other hand, it does take significant effort and research to speculate what forces could have been behind the alleged murder of Shastri ji [Translation: Mr. Shastri]. So what's the problem with the movie? [81]", The author Joseph Trento commented that "we know the Mitrokhin material is real because it fills in the gaps in Western files on major cases through 1985. Here's what he had to say about it:"Mitrokhin served in the operational division of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate of the KGB till 1956. If the Americans ever wanted to kill Shastri ji, Tashkent would be the perfect place. [26][27][28], Andrew described the following active measures by the KGB against the United States:[41]. According to Mitrokhin's notes, Soviet security organizations played key roles in establishing puppet Communist governments in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan. The 42nd amendment to the Constitution of India passed in 1976 which amended the Preamble and changed the description of India from "sovereign democratic republic" to a "sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic". Many notable operations are alleged to have been conducted by the KGB to support international terrorists with weapons on the orders from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including: In 2002, the Italian Parliament, then led by Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition, the Casa delle Libertà , created a commission, presided over by Senator Paolo Guzzanti (Forza Italia) to investigate alleged KGB ties to opposition figures in Italian politics. [Translation: Mitrokhin handed over 25,000 secret KGB documents to Britain] WRONG AGAIN. World ka best counter-intelligence report? After a further meeting one month later with representatives of MI6, operations followed to retrieve the 25,000 pages of files hidden in his house, covering operations from as far back as the 1930s. He wished that he had retained "full control over the handling of his material". At that moment, Soviet intelligence officer Oleg Kalugin reported from Washington that he had gained access to "absolutely reliable documents proving that neither CIA nor any other agency was manipulating the Czechoslovak reform movement." [83]", Investigations after publication of the books, Latin American leaders accused of being informants or agents of the KGB, Middle Eastern figures accused of being informants or agents of the KGB, Disinformation campaign against the United States, Installation and support of communist governments, Support of international Liberation Movements, Preparations for large-scale sabotage in the West, UK House of Commons, Hansard Debates, 21 Oct 1999, Columns 587â594. But Vivek Agnihotri saw it fit to hide these facts !! The Brits wouldn't lie. The movie's claims are ridiculous for three reasons: i. Daba do, sab daba do" [Translation: Mitrokhin archives are considered to be the world's best counter-intelligence report but in India it has been suppresed]. They have NEVER lied !!! After basing his entire conclusion and conspiracy theory on the questionable and controversial Mitrokhin archives, the director acknowledges that these claims haven't been proven. For eg. This film is supposedly about the mystery surrounding the death of the second Prime Minister of India, Shri. Since the thesis of the movie relies heavily on Mitrokhin and his "archive" / papers, it's important to understand his background. Mr. Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGBâs foreign intelligence archive between 1972 and 1984, and had access to hundreds of thousands of files from the global network of the KGB. The defection was not officially announced until 1999. Nobody is interested in facts. Many unsolved investigations have been closed; many earlier suspicions confirmed; and some names and reputations have been cleared. It was only with the break-up of the Soviet Union and the decline in security measures at the new borders of the Russian Federation at last open the way for Mitrokhin to take his archive to the West. The author,"drawing on the KGB intelligence files smuggled out by Vasili Mitrokhin, reveals how the Russians used national liberation movements to foment race war in the United States and also provided arms to Irish terrorists to cause mayhem in the United Kingdom." The book (co-authored by British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew) represents the first public crack at a motherlode of information provided by Vasili Mitrokhin, the former archivist to the KGBâs First Chief Directorate. This is so because as a director, Vivek Agnihotri knows that it's the visuals and dialogs of the movie that matter, not the disclaimer / title cards. [51] He ordered the fabrication of false intelligence not only for public consumption, but also for the Soviet Politburo. If one believes Mitrokhin's story about how he copied the contents of classified documents, then one would have to believe that he was able to copy the secret documents starting from 1972 until his retirement in 1985 without ever even being suspected. The movie begins with the defection of a Russian ex-intelligence official named Vasili Mitrokhin. In other words, not a single person named in the Mitrokhin archives was sent to jail but the guy who tried to put them in jail eventually landed up there himself !! Still, the overall impact of this volume is convincing, though none of the material will send historians scurrying to rewrite their books. But they used the material as a propaganda tool against their old enemy Russia. "These things do take place. When he defected to Great Britain, he brought the Archive with him. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB | Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin | download | Z-Library. The editing, screenplay and the story could have been far better. The movie insinuates that Soviet Russia killed Shastri ji so that India could be transformed into a socialist country !! Why did he not remove the word 'socialist' from the Constitution? His refusal to include more info about the CIA in the movie coupled with the blatant lies against the Russians could be a hint of things to come in the future. He had only made 5 movies in the last 15 years prior to the current one. After all, if Russia can wait for 10 years, then the US can wait for 25 years too !! If you recall, the elections began on the previous day i.e. 1, the Sword and the Shield) and in the Third World (depicted here in vol. They remain in the custody of the operational branch concerned...... All intelligence agencies more or less follow the same rules of security in order to safeguard the identities of their sources and the modus operandi of the operation. [80], Jack Straw (then Home Secretary) stated to the British Parliament in 1999: "In 1992, after Mr. Mitrokhin had approached the UK for help, our Secret Intelligence Service made arrangements to bring Mr. Mitrokhin and his family to this country, together with his archive. The Mitrokhin Archive documents that the New York publisher of Joestenâs book, "Carlo Aldo Marzani," was a PGU agent (codenamed NORD), who for years had been subsidized by the PGU to produce pro-Soviet books. Active measures against the "Main Adversary" [edit | edit source] A few examples of active measures against the United States were described in the Mitrokhin Archive:. Before defecting to the United Kingdom, Mitrokhin approached the CIA with his archives and sought asylum in America. Mitrokhin joined the MGB (as the KGB was known till 1953), the intelligence agency of Soviet Russia, in 1948 as a foreign intelligence officer. Since Mitrokhin's archive comprises of his notes and did not include any official document or photocopy, it cannot be considered as evidence in a court of law. Or did the director know about it and still go ahead with it?Well, at the very end of the movie, a few title cards show more allegations from the Mitrokhin archives; for eg. Moreover, no one, however trustworthy, is allowed to work alone in a branch containing operational files. The Mitrokhin Commission ended in a scandal, and without evidence to tie any Italian politician. Neither did the founder member of Indian intelligence agency R&AW, B. Raman. And help to expose this sick propaganda hit-piece masquerading as a movie. The KGB director Yuri Andropov took suppression of anti-Communist liberation movements personally. During the Prague Spring events in Czechoslovakia, Andropov was a vigorous proponent of "extreme measures". For instance, the authors tell how the K.G.B. SIS stated that they were clearing the UK chapters with the Home Secretary and the Attorney General, as required before publication of the book, but, the Committee found, they did not do so. Mitrokhin made no attempt to contact any Western intelligence service during the Soviet Era. David L. Ruffley, "Review of Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Commons Hansard Debates 21 Oct 1999 : Column 587, Intelligence and Security Committee: The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report, Interview on Mitrokhin with Christopher Andrews, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitrokhin_Archive&oldid=999085268, Vague or ambiguous geographic scope from July 2015, Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from June 2015, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2009, Srpskohrvatski / ÑÑпÑÐºÐ¾Ñ ÑваÑÑки, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Attempts to increase racial hatred in the US by mailing forged hate letters to militant groups, Obtaining documents from defense contractors including. It appears that this was the real intention behind making this movie while Shastri ji's death was reduced to a subplot. Going by this logic, one can also say that the "economic reforms" of 1991 (Globalization, Liberalization) to make India a "capitalist" economy is proof of CIA's complicity in Shastri ji's murder !!! According to the archive, Alexius worked for the KGB as agent DROZDOV, and received an honorary citation from the agency for a variety of services. As you are about to see, there are multiple mistakes in just this one dialog !! Many court cases were registered based on these documents. Mitrokhin's Archive ... they wanted to read the book "out of curiosity" but maintained that the allegations publicised so far appeared to lack credibility. And guess what? So, to trust the Mitrokhin archives requires one to also place immense faith in the British intelligence agencies i.e. Actually, this story surfaced in Henry Hurt's Reasonable Doubt, written 13 years ago. This would help to get India away from Soviet Russia and into the western orbit in the cold war. In West Germany, the KGB was said to have infiltrated the major political parties, the judiciary, and the police. [79]", Reg Whitaker, a professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, gave a review at the Intelligence Forum about the book where he wrote that "The Mitrokhin Archive arrives from a cache under a Russian dacha floor, courtesy of the British intelligence community itself, and its chosen historian, Chris Andrew" and that the book "is remarkably restrained and reasonable in its handling of Westerners targeted by the KGB as agents or sources. He did this for a period of 12 years by which time he had typed nearly 25,000 pages of classified information. Well, here's another interesting fact. And this is where the movie is so deplorable. Some were booby-trapped with, An "immensely detailed" plan to destroy ", Andrew, Christopher, Vasili Mitrokhin (1999). ; Spreading rumors that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual. Over the years, Mitrokhin became increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system, especially after the stories about the struggles of dissidents and the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which led him to conclude that the Soviet system was un-reformable. [Also published under the title 'The KGB and the World: The Mitrokhin Archive II']. And one has to assume that he copied all the documents faithfully without committing any intentional or unintentional mistakes. With this important background information, let us now re-examine the dialog bit by bit. [Translation: Let's talk about motives now. [63] The KGB provided secret training for PLO guerrillas. As there were no original KGB documents or copies of original documents, the material itself was of no direct evidential value, but it was of huge value for intelligence and investigative purposes. forged a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to E. Howard Hunt, the former C.I.A. 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