INDIAN MILY. COMMAND COLLUDING WITH CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700290013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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The official Soviet news
MoSCow, Nov. is:
Tsss said yesterday an
Americ"i, identified as a for-
mer U.S Central Intelligence
Agency . (CIA) agent, has
charged that the military high
command of India was "tea-
miug up" with CIA agents
when he was there.
John Smith, who now lives
in Moscow, wrote that he
-s staggered by how deep:, U.S. intelligence pcnetra-
` dian military mach-
agency said, in a summary of,
another instalment of his me-
moirs in Literaturnaya Gazeta--
literary gazette.. The sum-'
mary of. the instalment was
carried. by Tass wires day.
before the magazine's pub-
lication date.
The . agents were chiefly
'"a group of highly placed
Indian military men who
were dissatisfied with Prime
Minister Jawaharlal. Nehru's
policies' and were poro-Amc
rican oriented." Tass said.
Tass did not name the
officers allegedly involved.
In his first instalment
Smith was identified as being.
from Quincy, Massachusetts.
The U.S. Stata- Depart
ment . acknowledged Ust
month the existence of a ? .
John Smith wha ?workcd as a.
code clerk in India but do- ~
nied that he ever worked for
thy CIA.--APA.
AI v, / f y~ y
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