DEVELOPMENT OF NEPALESE FIGHTING FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100110025-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Nepal
'Development of Nepalese Fighting Forces
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1. An Indian military mission headed by Major General Y.S. Paranjoe has been. in
Nepal since Fob 1952, engaged in a two-year,program of building up a Nepalese
fighting force.
2. There have been organized: 15 infantry battalions, 2 mountain batteries, .2
engineer companies, a machine gun company, a transport company, and a supply
organization.
3. Further plans provide for equipping and training 7 more infantry battalions.
Supply and provisioning are provided for by a special agreement between Nepal,
and India..
4. The mission of these troops is to secure the Nepalese border against Chinese
and Tibetan infiltration and to combat Nepalese bands.
The Indian military mission presumably provides an effective support for Indian
Influence in Nepal.
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