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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00826A001300010003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 28, 1960
• Content Type: MF

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28 September 1906
i Deem in Indian Politics
onto involvi Dessi (Airgram 231, 16
Delhi has produced an excellent su ary
and his aloofness from direct involve-
machinations keeps it that way. The
Li's position has been something of an
lost the succession battle to hrs.
annex).. We concur in its t.lys is .
8. The Xl report "Indian Prime Minister Gandhi:
204mU and. imp ts" was published just before rumors
b*Vm to circulate in Nov Delhi that Dessi might be brought
baek into the cabinet. At the time s of Dent's past
tste8 ire in the news as active critics of Mrs. Gandhi's
ertiliaer and exchange rate policies. s ai himself, how-
l, vas energetically chairing the government's admin-
trat refs investigative co ittee and holding to his
tasding vow never to criticize either the Congress
icy or the goverment in Public.
3.
coos lderably oversimplified; most party
chary of binding c i tments to anyone.
t UnaraJ , and Venal. We believe
a factional split within the Congress
rate groups crystallizing around *m.
krth+l a, rarj l * s sudden rgonco--at least
level--as a prospect for a major cabinet poet
Laos* within party ranks about the Image of
tainty now being projected by the
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rant. y party members probably fool that
me eat*e backbone. On balance, however,
baeay'ss nt that major cabinet
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are unlikely before the
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Gandhi to quite ible,
go badly, we see little chance
will improve suftictently to
I accept a senior
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strong then as
lesser need for a party-uni
Distribution:
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September 21, 1966
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I received today your OCI report, "Indian Prime Minister
{ an~ll,i, P+'rforroa.Tlce'. and Prospects" and hasten to thank you for it.
tib,, only .,urpriso in it girt itH ti-cat>>.ient of the posi-
tion of t:lio former Fin;'tttce Minister, Morarji I)csai. We would have
thought that Desai's position deserved a few more sentences. I won-
der, in retrospect, what your analysts would say to this point.
i :~i,all pass along your study to the Vice President and let
you know it he has further needs. In the meantime, thank you very
m ucli. -
Office of the Deputy Director
for Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley, Virginia
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