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.”
