Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpm!cher From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang.india Subject: Recent Indian double agent story Message-ID: <127@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 10:26:59 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpm.127 Posted: Thu Feb 7 10:26:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 02:21:10 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.politics:7410 net.nlang.india:23 ----- Recently there appeared a story about a fellow that was selling Indian secrets to both East and West. I was wondering about the nature of the info he was selling: it is an important clue to the interests of ths superpowers in that country as well as to other things. It is unlikely that the object of espionage was hi-tech warfare info: India can not match the pace of military research by USSR, let alone US. Conventional military info is valuable to Pakistan, China, other neighbors, but was it worth the risk to West Germany and Poland? Or did they pass it along to more interested players in the region? Or was it just "keeping in touch" politically, with intent to be able to influence the Indian political situation when the time is "right"? Does anybody know the details of the whole story? Mike Cherepov