New Delhi: In 1971 India missed out a chance to annihilate Pakistan "so that it never attempts to challenge India in the future". Why? Because a CIA agent operating out of Indira Gandhi's cabinet leaked out India's war objectives in the Bangladesh war.
A minister of Indira Gandhi's cabinet betrayed India's "war objectives" to the Central Intelligence Agency in December 1971, causing an abrupt end to the Bangladesh war under vicious US armtwisting.
This is the highlight of the book CIA's Eye on South Asia by journalist Anuj Dhar.
The book compiles declassified CIA records on India and her neighbours. It specifically spotlights what arguably has been India's biggest spy scandal.
