RCS Ottawa
- Feb 2, 2017
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UFOs, H-bombs, new religion: CIA cables reveal an era of intrigue and assassination plots in India

For a good part of the last century, India and the US weren’t the best of friends.

While the US saw India tilting towards the Soviet Union, India viewed with suspicion America’s support for Pakistan. It is only in the late 1990s, after the Cold War ended, that Indo-US ties began improving.

However, all through the troubled relationship, the US took a keen interest in India. While this is understandable considering the Cold War dynamics, some of the 13 million pages of documents declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Jan. 18 reveal the extent of this interest.

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