Experts say RAW’s powers and its role in India’s foreign policy have varied under different prime ministers. Founded mainly to focus on China and Pakistan, over the last forty years the organization has expanded its mandate and is credited with greatly increasing India’s influence abroad. VK Singh, a retired army officer who did a stint in RAW, in his 2007 book, India’s External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing.Īs a result, India established a dedicated external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing. During that conflict, “our intelligence failed to detect Chinese build up for the attack,” writes Maj. But after India’s miserable performance in a 1962 border war with China, the need for a separate external intelligence agency was clear. Until 1968, the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which is responsible for India’s internal intelligence, also handled external intelligence.
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