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Blast from the Past
Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew's book The Mitrokhin Archives Volume II: The KGB and the World has kicked up a storm in political circles after it claimed that India was one of the countries most successfully penetrated by the Russian spy agency and that the Kremlin spent a fortune trying to influence the press, police, ministers and the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
It said that Indira Gandhi's railway minister Lalit Narain Mishra received money from the KGB.
Besides this book, and another book called The State Within the State -- KGB and its Hold on Russia has referred to the Congress and the Communists as having taken money from Moscow.
The Mitrokhin Archives II claim the KGB penetrated the Indian political establishment -- with names of top Communist leaders revealed as having received favours from Moscow.
The KGB papers claim that deceased Communist Party of India leaders S A Dange and C Rajeshwar Rao regularly received bribes and favours from the Russians in mid-1970s and Dange even issued receipts for the money he received.
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The Mitrokhin Archives II, a book by former KGB spy Vasily Mitrokhin (inset) has kicked up a major political storm in India.
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