News India No need to dignify Henderson Brooks report: NSA

No need to dignify Henderson Brooks report: NSA

Thiruvananthapuram: National Security Advisor Shivashankar Menon today said there was no need to “dignify” the Henderson Brooks report on India-China war in 1962 as it was not critical to the current national security.It was an



Menon said the report was meant for the the army from the security point of view and not to tell the whole world “what your weaknesses were,” he said

“After that it was leaked in bits and pieces, but it makes no differences. It was history. Everybody involved in that had their own memories and versions on what happened”, he said. It was a report by two officers at a key point of time on what they knew of that time,” he said.

On the need for making available to researchers old defence files, Menon said steps had been taken in this regard.

“Large number of files has been transferred to archives and some of them have been digitized. A reading room has been set up where researchers could go through such files,” he said. However, matters concerning to Indo-China border and boundaries have naturally to be locked up.”

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