INDIA ACTING TO IMPROVE TIES WITH U.S.

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Washlncton Post Foreign Service
NEW DELHI, Dec. 29 -,011's toes. It is co id^_rai~l;'
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi milder than editorial con,
and her ruling Congress Partyilnents on the bombing appear.
are hard at work menciin',fIin'f in most Indian newspa?i
fences with the Nixon admin- pers.
istration. For its part, the Nixon ad-
After a full year in which I ministration has taken several
relations between the two steps intended to please India.
countries slipped from bad to One important move was the
worse, often with not-so-gentle' U .S. role in rescheduling In-
nudges from India, Mrs. Gan?i d1a's debt to the World Bank.
dhi and her colleagues now Another has been the recent
are seeking to mollify the: appointment of I111-yard acad-
United States, 1 emlcian Daniel Patrick Moyni?I
The surest sign to date; Marl as the new U.S. amhassa-
emerged Wednesday night when dor to India.
Congress Party leaders althouiii -,in, liberal Indians are
critical, refused to condemn atrait.ing Moynihan's arrival l
outright the current heavy with an enthusiasm not felt!
U.S. bombing of North Viet.r since the urbane John I:en.
Want, as they did the U.S. min. nc,ll C'aibraitr was U.S. atn?
J1111 of North Vietnam's gar b,ssacior here in the early
bors last May 119(iUs,
In fact, a foreign policy The halcyon days of Indo-
statement adopted by the American relations during the
party at its annual 1': orking, 190s went on the skids a year
Committee meeting in Cal- cl"o? 'Che descent. ~.t?hich began
cutta avoided even naming the \lith \Ir, \ixon's "tilt" toward
United States. North Vietnam, Pakistan during 'the Bangla-
the resolution stated, wag dcs11 confrontation, plunl-
'?bein, subjected to indiscrimi- meted when the President clis.
nate bombing of its civilian Patched shins of the 7th Fleet
population in a senseless dc- into the Bay of Bengal during
sire to impose the will of an. the two-week Indo?Pal:istian
outside power." % ar'.
There are indications that' India emerged from the war
the statement would have as the unquestioned dominant
been even further watered power in South Asia. For a
down were it not for pressures % ilile. Indian leaders appeared
from militant delegates. to bciieve they could afford to
'Replying to criticism from alienate the United States,
the floor, Foreign Minister 'bile turning incrcasingly to
Swaran Sin ,h said, "1': e have the Soviet Union for support.
spelled out tile content of con- This calculation went awry
demnation in the resolution i because of an ancient fact of
instead of using` the word it- life in India: ciorcnt^_11t. 1W,ithin
self." , the last. few months. the ;toy-
Last May, Swaran Singh felt el-11111011t has aciratted that the
free to use ,the word itself" country is faced ~%,ith a
when he called on both llou~es chronic food shortage as a re.
of Parliament to ',join the 1,ov- suit of the failure of the last
erntncnt in condemnin'g' the i 1110nsoon.
United States for minin This same rain failure, ironi?I
North Vietnamese ports. r?allY, hit the Soviet Union,
The language of the new leaving India no choice but to
party resolution appears eaten- I turn to the Unitcl States fur
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officials were charging U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency
operatives with interfering in
India's affairs, other Indian of-
ficials were in Washington
contracting for grain.
Charges against the CIA
have faded into oblivion today
and Mrs. Gandhi went out of
her way to eliminate any
doubts over whether the
United States was any longer
interfering in Indian affairs.
Commenting on a statement
she made Wednesday that
"certain powerful forces arc
ranged against us," the Prime
minister said she had not been
referring to any particular
co-try. better days clearly
are
coming, U.S. diplomats
and Indian leaders are cau-
tioning that even at best, rela-
tions between India and the
United States will not dupli-
cate the period of a decade
ago.
At that time. the relation-
Ship worked because India
had to rely upon the United
States for a seeminely unend-
ing, stream of aid. Today, both
sides say they arc looking for-
ward to what Swaran Sinch
has termed a relationship
based on "equality, reciprocity
and mutual respect."
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SOME TOUGH TIMES lie ahead for India, and the crunch is likely to come
early in 1973.
Both economic and political troubles have been growing in recent weeks,
spawned in part by India's decision to go to war with Pakistan just one year
ago to help create the independent nation of Bangladesh.
The real cost of that decision now is being felt.
On top of the strain the war placed on the economy, India has suffered
a serious harvest failure, amounting to a drop in foodgrain production of an
estimated 15 million tons.
The grain shortage and the heavy government spending for defense and
the Bangladesh war have led to a significant increase in inflation.
Industry, plagued by mismanagement and apathy among workers both in
the private and public sectors, remains stagnant.
With the government of Mrs. INDIRA GANDHI still undecided on a formula
for industrial ownership---trying to find a happy compromise between the
extremes of state ownership and unrestricted private enterprise---no one is
much interested in risking new industrial investments.
Compounding these problems, and adding to an increasingly tense political
atmosphere, is the mounting unemployment...especially of-young and highly
educated Indian professionals.
Although Mrs. Gandhi's ruling Congress Party maintains a substantial
majority in Parliament, the opposition---both left and right---has grown
much more vocal and critical of the government.
The government first tried to divert attention from the country's rising
food and other prices by blaming the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for
stirring unrest and demonstrations. It then quickly tried to back off.
The opposition elements, however, have kept the issue alive in order to
further embarrass the government.
Right-wing opposition elements have been growing bolder in their expres-
sions-of concern over the close relationship Mrs. Gandhi has been forging with
the Soviet Union.
But the main source of dissent and trouble for the government is the
deteriorating economic situation and particularly the continuing increase in
prices of food and other essential goods.
With the next harvest---due early in 1973---likely to be far below
original expectations, more trouble for India can be expected. The situation
bears watching.
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Indian Love Call
Indian Foreign Minister Swaran Singh's call for re-
newed "friendly and cooperative" ties with the United
States signals a welcome change in the poisoned atmos-
phere that has estranged the world's two largest de-
mocracies since last year's Indian-Pakistani war over
Bangladesh.
New Delhi was understandably bitter over overt Amer-
ican support for Pakistan during the repression of the
former Bengali state and the subsequent subcontinental
conflict. But the Indians carried their pique to ridiculous
lengths when top governmental officials leveled absurd
charges against the C.I.A. for alleged meddling in Indian
affairs and placed a stifling ban on the exchange of
scholars between the two countries.
The sober second thoughts reflected in Mr. Singh's
friendly overture may have been induced by a serious
crop failure in India which requires the Indians to seek
grain imports that only the United States could provide.
Further easing Indian-American tensions has been the
move toward peace in Indochina, long a source of friction
between the two countries; United States recognition
and generous support for Bangladesh, and growing'Indian
wariness of the close ties with the Soviet Union forged
during the Indian-Pakistani conflict.-
Whatever the immediate causes of India's change of.
heart, it deserves the warm response it has already re-
ceived from. Secretary of State Rogers. As Mr. Singh has
noted, the two countries "cherish common values of an
abiding nature such as our belief in democracy and a
democratic life, individual liberty and human dignity."
In a world where those values are everywhere threat-
ened, neither India. or the United States can afford to
indulge in petty quarrels.
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Overtures from India indicate a will-
ingness on that country's part to join
the movement toward world stability.
The pace was set earlier this year by
the United States, Russia, China and
the opposing factions in Europe.
India has followed an erratic course
over the past few years. Last year's
Pakistan-Bangladesh war caused Incli-
an-U.S. relations to sour; a brief bor-
der war a decade ago with China em-
bittered relations between the two
countries.
Now, Foreign Minister Swaran Singh
says India is ready to normalize diplo-
matic and other relations with both
China and the United States.
"So far as America is concerned
we have much in common witil the
great country and its people," he told
India's parliament. "There is no rea-
son why our relations with the United
States would not only be normalized
but become friendly and cooperative."
'I'bis is a welcome change from the
anti-Americanism of the p as t few
months such as the undocumented
claims about U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency snoopiiigii" tt,7---'_.
The same problem that helped im-
prove Russian-U.S. relations is playing
a part in once again normalizing Indo-
U.S. relations-the need for wheat.. In-
dia faces a serious threat of famine
because of drought and depletion of
grain reserve. About 2 million tons of
wheat must be imported quickly, and
most of it will have to come from the
United States.
This year, U.S. food grants to India
amounted to $108 million. While
friendship cannot be measured in dol-
lars, India would find it difficult to
argue away the value of such aid.
As to China and India, Singh said he
sees no reason why the two countries
should not be able to settle their dif-
ferences "bilaterally and peacefully,
in their mutual interests and in the
larger interest of peace, stability and
progress in Asia and the world."
This realistic attitude obviously was
influenced by significant accomplish-
ments in detente around the globe as
well as by India's own needs. A
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ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE ACCUSED OF PLOTTING 'ARAB TERRORISM'
[Article by V. Simonov, APN (Agentsvo Pechati Novosti; Novosti Press
Agency) correspondent: "Who Fired in Cafe Prince? -- Details on the
Provocative Conduct of Israeli Intelligence Service in Brussels";
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, Russian, 30 November 1972, p 3]
"My name is Mohamed Ahmed Rabbah. I have information on an attack
that is being prepared against your embassy. Details will be furnished
at a personal meeting,."
This nocturnal phone call caused lights to burn in the windows of
the Israeli mission in Brussels. Shortly afterward the 42-year-old
Israeli diplomat Zadok Ofir hurried to keep, the appointment in Cafe Prince.
Rabbah was waiting for him, his hands in his pockets. There were no
"details" there. There was a revolver from which Rabbah fired four bullets
point - blank at the Israeli.
Only a week had passed since the Munich incidents and the Western
press did everything in its power to carry the shots in the Brussels cafe
to the ears of its millions of readers. The tone of the communications
was set by the Tel-Aviv tuning fork: the attack on Ofir was cited as a
typical example of Arab terrorism. It was intimated that the responsibility
for this and "similar" actions must be borne by the governments of the
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Washington Post Foreign Service tion" had eliminated the need following the President's re- ceived less than 60 per cent of
NEW its normal annual rainfall.
election, Mrs. Gandhi sent
DELHI, Nov. 26--Far. for continuing food imports. ~
ing the growing likelihood of Even as the drought tight- 1 him warns congratulations. For instance, Andhra 1 1 a-'
cued its grip during last stmt- The President responded later desh, which normally sends
"`famine which could affect Go mer, the government claimed in the month with greetings 600.000 to 800,000 tons of rice
`million persons, the Indian that its grain reserves, said to on the prime minister's birth- 1 each year to other Indian
J total 9.5 million tons, would clay. I states, this year needs to i nt-
a,ovcrnntent has a complicated I port I million tons of Pice ]plus i
dilemma allout how to deal avert a crisis. Kid Glove 'treatment coarse grains for human and
with it. Now it develops that the Since then, Indian govern- I animal consumption.
evolution" has not ment ministers in Parliament
Tile, ba.sic fact is that India "Green P
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must import between I million been the success it was made] have prayed down an canned , about," said one Indian 1 1'1
and 2.5 million tons of reheat out to be and food stocks are ( series of attacks on the U.S.I aout?al expert, "is 60 million
-or more--and it must begin quickly being drained. Accord-'I Central Intelligence Agency.,! I cultue facia extreme hard-
doing it quickly. ing to one reliable source, gov "All of a sudden, they re
government is at-, m nmcnt reserves are ah?cad>- treating us with kid gloves," l ship. All these terins the ov-
1~'hile the ernment uses, like drought,
below 4 million tons. At the said an informed U.S. ob-
tentpting to create the arou d scarcity, shortages, are simply
sign that it is shopping around current rate of distribufion, ? server. American diplomats in euphemisms. There is only one
the world for the grain, the the entire reserve will be do New Delhi hesitate to link the `void: famine."
only. country which can meet pleted in four months. impending grain purchase
India's needs is the United The government claims the with India's evident desire to
States, with which New Delhi wintei? crop will produce 4.6 I mend fences.
has had badly strained rela- million tons of grain to be "What is happening is that '
Lions. added to the reserve. But. last India realizes it is going to
The crux of India's dilemma: year, when weather conditions: have to live with Mr. Nixon .
is this: were far better than now, only for. four more years, and there
3.2 million tons were pro- .,is no point in carrying on a
Serious droughts here are duced. vendetta that long," said an
expected to lead to massive
food shortages. But Indian no- By having to turn to the embassy source.
l United States for its imports,; As to the grain purchase,;
gotiators have been trying to appear none himlly informed Indian
withhold the full magnitude of the government could a
the situation in an effort to to be backing away from its source said it would take place
-Jcecp 'American wheat prices vehemently anti-American !"in bits and pieces" and possi-
from going above their al- posture of tile last year. bly with a few small contracts
ready high levels. Dent in Reserves ;going to one or two countries'
other than the United States.
This has involved New Delhi To prepare public opinion Government officials main-
in a vicious circle. To keep In- for this, the government has l tarn that feelers are being put
than dealers from raising do- declared that India would not out in Canada, Australia, Ar-
mestic prices, the government', "go begging" for handouts, gent ins and elsewhere. But,
has been forced to inform the !but would purchase the food it according to Indian and U.S.
Indian public that it plans to (needs with hard cash.
purchase 2 million tons of Newspaper commentators authorities, this is largely' a
wheat abroad. But these local have generally applauded this j pretense. "These other coun-, .
announcements have tipped independent-minded stance. al- tries are all committed," said
foreign grain negotiators, who though at present prices 2 mil- one Agricultural M i n i s t r y
are maintaining their high Ilion tons of U.S. wheat deliv- source. "The only viable
Noting that the recent So- (million, making an important 1?-,", - -- ---- -
?viet purchase of U.S. wheat dent in the country's SI billion need is the United States."
,had already raised American foreign exchange reserves. Hope Hope for Rain
prices by more than 30 per In the past, India has rc- A senior official of the Alin-
cent, the Economic Times of ceived most of its grain im- istry of Food is known to have
Bombay commented last week, I ports from the United States
"Our Food Ministry thus en- (under Public Law 480 (Food: been in Washington earlier
ters the market at an inoppor-'for. Peace), and paid in rupees.) this month to discuss pur-
tune time and in a blaze of I Thus, the United States hash chases, although the gover-
publicity. that is likely to make acquired a huge rupee ac-1, meat has so far denied it.
the.prices climb even llgher." (count. `Following tile' decline: The, government appears to
The government's problem in Indian-American relations be trying td delay its decision
'is further complicated by sev- ,i during last year's Pakistan- I as long as possible. There is
eral' other domestic and inter-. Bangladesh war, India insisted still a faint hope that some
.national considerations. it would no longer seek P.L. winter rains will fall in the
Government Exaggerations 480 aid. next month, improving the
.Mrs. Gandhi and her top ad- size of the crop now in the
Until the extent of the con- visors believe that use of the gr'owld.But this entire weest-
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Minister Indira Gandhi and In ct e
(drive toward self-reliance. [wheat producing areas, has re-!
ether leaders had been saying
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"We Spit on freedom". 't'hat attitude
electorate and seize power.
In 1972, another facet of the
diseased human mind led Mrs.
Patricia Nixon and her hen-wit-
fed daughter, Julie Eisenhower, to
proclaim in defence of Richard
Nixon's Vietnam 'policy that they
were willing to immolate them-
selves on behalf of the Saigon
stooge, Thieu.
a
THAT EXPLAINS TO A CETI-
TAIN 1,XI NT WHY Till!
A M E it I C.AN ELT;CTOPATI?
DROUGHT ABOUT A. LANU-
SLIDE VICTORY FOIL 1tI-
C IlAIlD NIXON, TTlE MOST
CON'fr'MI'T)PT.E, TILE MOST
UNLOVED FIGURE IN A:SIT,-
IIICAN POLITICS OF TILE
TWENTILTIi CENTURY.
BLACK RECORD
Richard Nixon's rc-election as
Preside;-.( of the US proves corn-
plete erosion of moral values in
American society, What has been
the recnrd of this man as Presl-
deut of the US it, the last four
years?
Notwithstanding the pantomime
mimicry of Dr. Kissin ;er's secret"
n,gcti 'l;ons with Hanoi, Nixon
has int_nsifed the Vietnam 1','ar.
He h?'; eevastaJ_'d North and
F euth L`ietnam with fifteen mil-
lion tors of bombs and a million
Asians ' dead. And one Is inclined
to agree with LF.Stone, the cele-
brated American columnist, that
the Vietnam War may go on un?
ii1 1971;.
Richard Nixon has lowered the
respect for the United States
Supreme Court by appointing
non-entities ready to carry out
their master's will.
He has bullied the national
press into subservience and with
his secret. electoral funds of P.45
million, provided by the military-
industrial complex, bought tele-
vision to portray him every night
as a man of peace hijacking his
way to Pelting and Moscow.
Ile has employed electronic de-
vices to spy on his political op-
6 r
1~:-1
of mind of !I-ie
bamboozle the
be chaos and not revolution. For
revolution we require character
and integrity. Alas, we cannot
boast of these characteristics and
we witness the dismal spectacle of
politicians who blatantly defend
Two tolls of opium and
1'~I~.ITICS ~ r+ IILI~ OIN
Inot?phine were sci7cd aboard
a tool in Hong lt;oul fear-
Lour. 't'his was (lie second It is In this connection I give
l+ig't;est seizure. The tv:o-below a summary of the account
million-dollar worth of con-Which has appeared in The New
trablr.tcl narcotics is Part of Fork Review of Books of 21 Scp-
thc CIA-nmastet?rninded cirttr'ternber 1972. A book enli?led The
td?tafiie to Sorth-East f Sian Politics of Heroin in Sovilirast
cotlniries to lull them into '' by Alfred W. McCoy was to
submission to the American he published .by the well-known
One v:ould Lave thought that
this repulsive
record t:'as ettout;h
for any decent roan to renounce
Nixon in ciisqu~~t, Howvever, the
American ballot box turned out
to be 'another Idiot box, And the
most of luent society In the world
showed itself as the most sick
society, Consequently one must
say farewell lint only in the Ame-
rican Dream but to freedom at
large.
SICK S0CI11"IFFY
To advance my thesis I must
turn to The New York Review of
Ilooks of 21 September, 1512, the
sea-mail copy which has just ar-
rived in Bombay. Before doing so
I may be permitted a pertinent
aside.
In the midst of all this, the
"White Russians" of Indian so-
ciety are tip in arms as their ori-
ginals were trying to attack and
dislodge Lenin. The Indira Gov-
ernment is subjected to the most
vicious attacks from the deshi
"White Russians." They seem to
forget that drought Is not an
Indian phenomenon only. It pre-
vails in the Soviet Union and in
Maoist China as well as in India.
It has compelled Russia and
China to buy American wheat
worth billions of dollars in hard
cash.
Drought is not the only Indian
calamity. Corruption at all levels
in our society has brought about
a state of affairs which -
in only
publishers, Ilarper & Rovr.
On Tune 1, 1972, Cord Meyer,
a CIA official. visited the New
York office of Harper & Row and
requested the management to
provide him with a copy of the
galley-proofs of McCoy's forth-
coming book. ?
TILE I'FASON WAS THAT
IN Tills EOOI.C, Mn. BICCOY
WAS SHOWING THE COMPLI-
CITY OF TIM, CIA AND THE
STATE DEPARTMEN r - IN o1t-
GANISI'NG SOUTIlEAST
ASIAN DRUG TRAFFIC SINCE
1.050.
At this very time the author,
Alfred McCoy, was testifying be-
fore the .Senate Appropriations
Committee his findings into the
Southeast Asian drug tr adie. AIc-
Coy's researches includcvl during
18 months of study more than 250
interviews with heroin dealers,.
police officials and intellit;encC
agents in Europe and Asia.
It was Cord Meyer's contention
that Mr. McCoy's book would be
full of inaccuracies. It would em-
barrass the United States govern-
ment and perhaps involve the
publishers in libel suits. (As a
CIA official, Cord Meyer had been
in the past in charge of provid-
ing financial subsidies to organ-
ise lions such as the National Stu-
dents' Association, Encounter
magazine, and the Congress for
Cultural Freedom.)
CIA CENSORSHIP
STATINTL
.
end in chaos. We are a corrupt The publishers got in touch with
the author and informed him that
and degraded lot. There is no they had decided to let the CIA
doubt about it. But who Is (hero exemine the galley?proof. The
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I USSEL J. SMITH, boss of the
CIA at the ITS Embassy
at New Delhi, is. conducting
the ma3jor? ANTI-INDIRA GOV-
EFtNMP,'NI' operation launched
by the US since the Indo-Pali
war. From his private brief-
i.ngs, it is surmised that.ClA
agents are now working to ex-
ploit the foodgrains scarcity
and economic Crisis to force
Caovernnlenf,'s capitulation to
Washington, beginning with
the resumption of PL-230
imports.
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operates i
Pii"I
Hindustan Times Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Nov. 16- -The
Government of India is not indif-
ferent to Soviet intelligence acti-
vity in this country. It has been
noted that apart from a political
party, there are some others who
act as agents for the purpose.
Prime A;:nister Indira Gandhi is
understood to have pointed out at
the last meeting of the Congress
Farliarnentary Party_ executive on
Monday that it would be wrong to
think that only the CIA was ope-.
rating here. The Government had
in its possession the information
on how and where the CIA had
worked. It would not be in the
public interest to divulge this in-
formation.
At the same time, she warned
the partymen not to be compla-
cent about the working of those
collecting secret information for
the USSR. They included the
members of'o political party and
several others. Sne reportedly
named the party also.
While she was reluctant to dis-
cuss the matter at length for Itn
obvious dinloniatic implications,
Mrs Gsndh had trken into ac-
count the pressures sought to be
O:ercised by the super powers (in-
cluding the Soviet Union). No 1n-
telIieence agency of any sort could
be welcome and, therefore, the
country should be vigilant on all,
fronts,'she emphasised.
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From Our Own Correspondent , vities of the CIA in Indian,edu-I
Delhi, Nov 16re i.; - cational institutions.
The opening of the new session The evil hand of the American'
of the Lower These wits en-! .secret service was also detected
livened :h ere this week by the. behind the troubles in Assam
ap Ce ranee of 1Tr? Piloo Mod?y,; where more than 30 people have
leader of the right?win Sivatan? been killed and some, 760
tea Part.,y, wearing a badge ;With' d'ijured in several months of
the lo-end : " I art a CIA agent." disorder caused by a linguistic
dispute.
Tit is satirical comment on the Tn. September' Dr . Sliaakar
recent s a:+tc of alle ations about .Daval Sharma, the president of
the a"tis tics in Tndin of the 'the , ruling Congress.' Party,
Amer'c..an Central Tnteiligence accused the CIA of. fomentin
A !ency slid not go down too ill-feeling betc~een India and
well. The Speaker solemnly ran,^-.ladesh. Lr+.ef 'month Mrs
ruled that it was ,in affront to, Indira Gandhi,.the Prime Minis-
is the dignity of the FIoe. ter, ? lent her - support to the
l Tr i!4ody might well have allegations.
objected that his amiable clown-; It is not for us to prove that
ing was hardly' less dignified; this agency is working in our
than the daily shouting matches. country ", Mrs Gandhi declared.
and iYrunglcs of-car procedut-e.' "It is for't:hc CIA to l5rove'that
11e r'eniOvcd the badge, hou-ev r? it i.i not active in -Tndia." .
which is now said to be irurn by Whatever the ,iu atification for
his dog..,' ?? ; . lndinn euspiciuns-and the CTA
..The CIA hare was set running would -hardly he 'doing its lob
as luny at;o as la tMuy. Mir were it, not, l?t esetit in Tndi;t-?-
C..rant. the 'Minister for the affair has now clearlygot
TTdntc!' Afl';virs, then announced out of hank] and is becoming an
that a r,losc yt?atel, it as being kept! cmhnrrassnient. for the Govern-
.1)11 the alle8ctlly 'subt'craice auti-' ntent.
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India has proof of CIA subversion, Premier says
NEW DELIii - Reliable sources in New Delhi revealed Wednesday
that Premier Indira Gandhi told a closed meeting of her ruling Congress
Party that India has "conclusive proof" of subversive activities of the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in India. '
Mrs. Gandhi told the executive committee of the Congress Party's
group of deputies in India's parliament that India will take "all neces-
sary steps" to protect itself against the CIA, which she defined as an or-
ganization engaged chiefly in sabotage and subversion against the de-
veloping countries. The CIA is thought to be especially active in the Kash-
mir area.
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Garbo and Insults:
Relations between India and the
United States turned sour last year
when the Nixon Administration sided
with Pakistan in the short-lived Indo-
Pakistani War. Even so, the United
States had so long supported India's
"experiment in democracy" that most
observers felt that after a reasonable
cooling-off period, the giant of the
West and the giant of South Asia
would soon be smiling at each other
once again.
Not so. Under the peace-loving,
iron-handed rule of Prime Minister In-
dira Gandhi, India has created a cult
of anti-Americanism that would do
any two-bit African or Latin American
country proud. According to Indian of-
ficials, the United States is respon-
sible for just about every ill imagi-
nable, except perhaps the circum-
stance that Mrs. Gandhi was1 not born
a boy. Leading the list of American
bad guys is the Central Intelligence
Agency, that fascist-loaded organiza-
tion which preys on poor, defenseless
nations at every opportunity.
Indeed, Indian Communists now
claim that the United States will post
Ambassador Carol Laise from Nepal
to New Delhi as part of an expanded i
CIA sabotage effort. Wife of that well-
known CIA operative, Ambassador to
Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, Miss Laise
was described the other day as a
"CIA Mata Hari," whose appointment
to New Delhi would be "another insult
. . . to India"-an insult, no doubt,
akin to the U.S. cutoff of aid to India
following the December hostilities.
In fact, Indian anti-Americanism
has grown in direct proportion to the
number of days during which India
has been forced to struggle on without
sugar from Uncle Sam: fewer dollars,
more charges of CIA interference. So
all the United States needs to do is to
start providing financial support
again, and Miss Laise will not have to
worry about being compared to Greta
Garbo.
Then again, Mrs. Gandhi probably
would claim, even as she stuffed her
piggy bank, 'that the Nixon Adminis-
tration was trying to insult her with
money.
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xIn1r sadors
I/;
AU the fault
the "C'i HA ?
Walter Schwarz, New Delhi, on the genesis'
of an Indian myth
What goes wrong in India used munist Party as the agency's.
to be blamed on the British, or stooges.
the failing monsoons, or the Nobody offered evidence ".'. It is
Pakistanis, or. the pro-Chinese not up to us to prove it but it is
Communists. Now, suddenly, it's I up to the CIA to disprove it,"
the CIA. said Mrs Gandhi haughtily.
In the last few weeks Mrs Gandhi This remark provoked.Mr Rogers
and her top party officials have into raising the whole matter with
named the CIA as responsible for India's Foreign Minister in Wash-
riots in Delhi and Bihar, language ington. Mrs Gandi now explained
disturbances in Assam, student that she had meant that the CIA's
demonstrations in Punjab and doings were already well enough
Kerala, unrest in Kashmir, hostile documented up and down the
processions in West Bengal and, world.
most sinister of all, the emergence The Americans reacted quietly.
of a grand alliance among opposi - The Embassy in Delhi put out a
tion parties. two-line statement calling Di
ember when the Congress Party
President,. Dr Shankar Dayal
Sharma, said at a press confer-
ence that "the CIA is creating
conflict in my country and using
its stooges for making peaceful
demonstrations violent."
Whether this was the opening
shot. in a deliberate campaign to
make India spy-conscious is not
.clear. Perhaps having come out
with it, Dr Sharma could not dis-
own it, and his - Prime Minister
could not disown him. Perhaps it
was such a popular thing to say
that Dr Sharma went on saying it
and the others joined in.
Whatever the reasons behind
the timing, it is fairly clear that
Mrs Gandhi, Dr Sharma, and a
great many other Indians believe
the charges to have more than a
grain of truth.
What Dr Sharma thinks the CIA
has in mind was explained at his
next. press conference. It meant
"to show after all that India is
not strong, but economically weak
and politically disjointed and Mrs
Gandhi's victory on] y an accident."
For her part Mrs Gandhi said she
agreed there was a "cult of
violence" and that this was
fomented by "foreign Powers which
hate to see India. strong." More
specifically, she said the CIA had
"lain dormant" during the Bangla -
desh war "because the people
were united." Its activities had
nowbeen "revived."
After this stamp of approval,
Chief Ministers and party bosses
all the way from Kashmir to
,Kerala came out with what the
CIA had been doing to rock their
.-particular boats. , The Chiet
Minister of Punjab found the CIA
behind the demonstrations of the
ultra -right -wing Ajlkali Dal Party,
while his j=~'~ ~~i
singled Mkt' ~f ri'e!
rageous and totally devoid of fact."
Then it kept quiet, waiting for the
storm to blow over. Mr Rogers
assured Mr Swaran Singh that no
CIA activities were harmful to
India.
Sceptics in Delhi put the whole
thing down to political manoeuvr-
ing. "Methinks the lady protests
too much," said the Indian
Express, while the Hindustan
Times found it "difficult to resist
the feeling that the Congress
Party is casting about desperately
for allies and scapegoats for its
relatively poor performances in
the economy."
It was indeed a time of food
riots after a drought, and of mount-
ing popular exasperation over
rising prices and corruption, The
~Ttfe. 99r0c9pg19qh9re-7has
been an object lesson in how to k o v, --) "d'"
give aid and win enemies. In the we
last twenty years India got more
than ten thobsand million dollars'
worth of American aid - more
than from all other countries put.
together. In one drought after
another, American surplus wheat
and rice staved off famine. The
"green revolution" which has
begun to make India independent
of food imports was partly financed
by American dollars, as was nearly
every branch of education, welfare,
industry, and development.
The dependence bred resent-
ment. And now that the aid has
been cut off as a result of the war
with Pakistan, there is fresh
resentment. A veteran of the Con-
gress Party's freedom struggle
and now one of Mrs Gandhi's
senior colleagues assured me that
"Americans are far more arrogant
than the British ever were. Aid
was for their own benefit, not
ours." This minister said he saw
a pattern running through all the
riots which suggested to him that
the CIA was master-minding them.
The wheat and rice used to he
paid for in rupees which were
banked here for American use.
Some of the money went on
internal aid projects. A lot of it
paid for the hugely staffed diplo-
matic and aid missions here -
and also paid the expenses of an
army of visiting American
scholars. These scholars did much
to lengthen the CIA's shadow here
because they were always going
off to sensitive border areas like
West Bengal or Assam to write
their theses. Some who were not
CIA did not help matters by
publicly declaring that the CIA
had "approached" them.
The American profile has now
been drastically lowered. Even
before the war the food stopped
coming in because it was not
needed. The war stopped all aid
not tied to projects - which still
Congress Party was about to hold leaves about a hundred million
its annual committee meeting, dollars a year coming in. The
where the leadership was expected Indians themselves have put a
to be attacked from within by the stop to the wandering scholars by
left wing. And both Left and Right insisting that they operate in the
opposition parties were planning framework of a local university.
nation -wide demonstrations. As a No doubt the CIA is still here,
scapegoat and a diversion, the though perhaps it has pruned its
CIA filled the bill. numbers as drastically as the US
Politics may account for the. Aid Mission has. The embassy still
timing of the anti-CIA campaign. lists 108 diplomats in Delhi (the
But the proposition that the United British 51, the Russians 67). The
States is actively interested in American mission includes a
preventing India from-; becoming . "defence supply representative"
strong is very widely accepted - and two assistants, though no
and Mrs Gandhi is clearly among American arms have arrived here
the believers. For most Indians for many months. (An embassy
the final doubts were dispelled spokesman said these people are
;wring the Bangladesh war. when being phased out.")
-le Seventh Fleet carrier appeared In addition to fact-finding, the
;;i the Bay of Bengal. CIA may well give funds to
The correspondence columns of political parties and individual
Delhi newspapers have been less political friends, just as the
sceptical than the editorials. Russians are widely assumed to
Among scores of irate anti-CIA finance the pro-Moscow Conn-
letters the least violent was from munists and the Chinese to help
a kind soul who sought to excuse their' own faction. But the notion
~8 `ie ,P, Y" ; fib IPSO-o1 ii$1st'' u~en 'iSM t0, S has
yet to be proved, or even made to
sound plausible.
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By Charlotte Saikowski
Staff correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
? Washington
For weeks now the Russians have been
1shrilly playing up India's charges that the
V Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is med-
dling in its internal affairs.
Sensitive about their own relationship with
New Delhi, the Soviets appear to be trying to
drive an even deeper wedge between India
and the United States and to prevent the two
from moving toward any healing dialogue.
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sionary groups were located in s
defense regions.
the CIA, working through such philanthropic
organizations as - Asia Fund, was inciting
separatist sentiments in Nagaland and trying
to sour relations between India and Bangla-
desh as well as between India and the Soviet
Union. It described these alleged activities In
minute detail.
As U.S. officials assess it, the Soviet
campaign must be viewed against the back-
drop of .Moscow's own position in India. That,
despite the treaty of friendship, has never
been as firm as the Russians would like and
they apparently want to shore it up.
Economic relations with New Delhi, for
instance, have been complicated over the
past few years. The Indians, for one, have not
been willing to give the Soviets the desired
credits.
A coolish Kremlin view of the Indian
economy is reflected in a recent commentary
in the Soviet monthly Peoples of Asia and
Africa on the 25th anniversary of India's
independence. The article points out that
India is on the capitalist road of development
and that the socialist program of the Con-
gress Party is not socialist by Soviet stan-
dards.
Firm base in question
The Russian reader is thus left with the
impression that Soviet relations with India
are not based on ideological affinity and
therefore are not firmly based.
The Kremlin's concern is understandable.
Some segments of Indian opinion are critical
of the Russian influence on the subcontinent
and generally the Indians are thought to
place too high a value on their independence
to fall under the Soviet thumb.
Hence the Soviet leadership may not be too
confident about the stability of its relations
If the Kremlin's vociferous anti-CIA cam-
paign points up anything, say U.S. officials, it
is that the detente between the Soviet Union
-and the United States does not put an end to
the political or ideological rivalry of the two
powers. Moscow continues to pursue its own
national interests and in the given case that
interest lies in expanding its own influence in
southern Asia and removing that of the
I
Americans.
The Russians also are trying to discredit
U.S. relations with the Philippines. On Oct. 25
Moscow Radio, in an English broadcast to
Asia, said that Washington is irritated by the
recent developments in Manila and sug-
gested that the CIA had been involved in
engineering and financing actions against the
Marcos government.
Indian allegations against the CIA were
first leveled by the head of the Congress
Party late in September. They were then
picked up by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
and, although they have never been substan-
tiated, they have stirred a storm in Indian
politics.
Some Indian media have in effect blamed
the American intelligence organization for
India's domestic troubles.
Soviets exploit situation with New Delhi and the anti-CIA campaign
The, Russians moved in quickly to exploit can be interpreted as an effort to make sure
that there are continuing problems between
the situation and Soviet news media have . the United States and India and that the
kept up a steady drumfire of accusation, current alienation is not patched up.
often citing elaborate particulars that do not U.S. officials express dismay at the present
even appear in the Indian Press. coolness in Indian-American relations -
In sum, they charge the CIA is engaged in a engendered in part by Washington's policies
concerted program of subversion aimed at during the Indo-Pakistani crisis, the CIA
.,undermining India's political and economic 'Delhi's pro-Hanoi CIA
fndependence" and "whitewashing the impe- alongathe allegations, and New Delhi's
Vietnam war - .and would
CIA A is States
using ing welcome moves toward a dialogue. But this is
in Astsia.." " The siSo Sovlietts say say y the the United
n Asia." to be a difficult process given Mrs.
scholars, scientists, and teachers in this Gandhi's present mood.
effort. Meanwhile, the Russians are having a field
Varied ruses charged lay.
-Broadcasting in English to Asia on Oct. 20,
m le the Njoscow-sponsored
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CIA threat scored by India's Communists
NEW DELLII - The Indian government's moves against the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency's subversive operations were strongly sup-
ported in a Sunday declaration by the Central Executive Committee of
the Communist Party of India. CPI General Secretary C. Rajeshwara
Rao said in New Delhi on Monday that unity of all democratic forces in
India is necessary to defeat the CIA and Indian reactionaries, who are
trying to sabotage the socio-economic reforms being carried out by the
government of Premier Indira Gandhi. Sunday' CPI statement de-
scribed the CIA operations as a "serious threat" to India's national
security and normalization of relations between India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh.
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NEWS OCT 3 1 1972
E - 26,636
New Delhi Phantom
is I ~ a~ ? c~
It is a favorite tactic for rulers who are unable to
deliver on their promises to attempt to put the blame
on someone or something else. But India's Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi has developed an obsession
with theA ,~1?m,,., ,-_
The American intelligence agency lately has
been taking the blame for any number of failures in
Indian society. Mrs. Gandhi's most recent outburst
named the CIA as responsible for large-scale riots by
Indians against deteriorating economic conditions .
What the riots realty were about wer.
unemployment, inflation and failure of the govern,
nient to relieve poverty and social pressures .. Th
CIA hardly could have created all. those problems
land the size of India.
.India's continuing economic problems are the
result of its leadership deficiencies and chronicly
bad weather. The CIA doesn't even made a Mod
scapegoat.
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"A canard of the basest
sort," said a State Depart-
ment stu,k'sman of charges
by C:ornr,iunists in India that
Carol C. Laise, the United
States Anibassador to Nepal,
is a "C.I.A. \1ata Bari." Mist,
Laise, who is the wife of
Ellsworth Bunker, the Am-
bassador to South Victr:am,
has been reported in India to
be a possible successor to
former Ambassador Kenneth
1:. Keatin; in New Delhi.
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Mrs andhi 's
A cartoon in the influential Indian Express recently
showed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi receiving a report
from her party president, S. D. Sharma, v:llo tells her:
"This week's C.I.A. activities include four price-rise denr-
onstrations, seven buses hijacked by students, plus one
cyclone in Orissa."
Indian officials haven't actually accused the American
intelligence agency of instigating India's chronically had
weather---so far. But Mrs. Gandhi and her aides have
raised a storm in India in recent weeks, trying to pin
blame on the C.I.A. for a host of other troubles, including
widespread rioting precipitated by sharply rising prices,
unemployment and the Government's failure to make
good on its promise to ease poverty and social injustice.
Challenged to document her charges against American
agents, Dirs. Gandhi haughtily replied: "Everyone knows
that the C.I.A. has been active in India and there is no
question of proving it."
The Indian Government no doubt has reason to be
concerned about foreign intelligence activity within
India's borders-Soviet as well as American. Mrs. Gandhi
has good cause to be impatient with an American Govern-
ment that continues to "tilt" toward Pakistan ten months
after the Indian-Pakistani war.
However, leveling unsubstantiated accusations against
the C.I.A. for instigating incidents that are clearly rooted
in domestic problems will not help solve India's diffi-
culties. Mrs. Gandhi's diversionary charges only serve
to undermine her Government's credibility with percep-
tive Indians and with friends of India in the United
States who seek to restore the old warn ties.
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Freeze Appears to Harden
10 Months After War
By SIDNEY H. SCHANBERG
Ldal to The :Ie:v York Times
NEW DELHI, Oct. 21-The
soured relationship between
the United States and India
remains unrelieved by any ef-
fort to improve things and
there are, in fact, signs that
the alienation has become
deeper and more frozen.
Last year, when the Nixon
Administration was "tilting" to
Pakistan during the Pakistan
repression of what is now
Bangladesh and during the In-,
dian-Pakistani war that for-
lowed, American diplomats ini
New Delhi were saying that)
Indian-United States relations'
had hit rock bottom.
Now, 10 months after the
war, though anti-American
public demonstrations here
have become less virulent, it
Appears that relations have de-
teriorated even furtl-,er.
There are many negative
signs:
When the war broke out,
the United States halted devel-
opment aid to both India and
Pakistan -- in India's case,
$87.6-million in aid already
contracted for-on the ground
that development could not)
proceed in the face of the hos-r
tilities. Development programs
have, of course been resumed,
but the aid to India has not
been resumed. On the other
hand, Washington has granted
about 5100-million in loans and
debt relief to Pakistan since the
war last December.
(The aid mission at the
United States Embassy here isl
being reduced in' personnell
from well over 100 Americans
to a skeleton staff of 30 or
per1r ps fewer.
'The Indian Government has
blocked visas for several hun-
dred American scholars, includ-
ing Fulbright scholars. The Gov-
. ernment took that step even
though it was aware that the
stanchest support for India in,
the United states was from the;
candemic community. I
4The Government is investi-
gating charges of misuses by
the American Emb.rssv of rupee
funds acquired through the sale)
of Public Law ?1B0 surplus
wheat to India. Public Law 4,01
provides for the sale abroad of~
a ricultural surpluses and sa vs.
JPrime Minister Indira Gan-
dhi and other top Indian offi-
cials have stepped up criticism
of American policy in Vietnam.
cThe United States Embassy
has ben without an ambassador
? Reaction of the Press
Abu Abraham, a member of
Parliament and one of India's
most trenchant political car-
toonists, dismissed the contro-
since July, when Kenneth B.! versy in a cartoon inThe Indian
}:eating resigned alter threes Express. It shows Mrs. Gandhi
years where, thoug: President( receiving a report from the pres-
new ambassadors to other
countries, including neighbor-
ing Sri Lanke, fo:,nerly Ccylon,
without waiting for tr.e out-
corr.e of the American Pres-
idential election.
C.I.A. Is Under Hire
Officials of India and the
United States agree that iti
would take a major move, such
as a commitment to a fresh and
serious dialogue, to get rela-
tions back on a positive course.
"All I want," an American
Embassy official said the other)
day, "is for both sides to come
together and recognize their
honest, basic differences, and
then go on and build from
there." But he acknowledged
ruefully that there had been
absolutely no movement in
that direction by either side.
Since the latter part of Sep-
tember, Mrs. Gandhi, her Cabi-
net and key state government
officials of her New Congress
party have been accusing the
United Statcs Central Intelli-
gence Agency of stirring trou-
ble against the Gandhi Govern-
ment all over India.
Demonstrations and bloody
riots in protest against sharply
rising prices, unemployment and
the Government's failure to
ehovi results on its campaign
pledge to "Garibi Hatao," to re-
move r.ovcrty, have all been laid
to tho agency and its alleged
Indian a.}ents.
However, no informed Indian
believes this, because the out-
bre:aks have clearly been the
result of real grievances. It is
impossible to measure the effect
of ilhe C.I.A.-conspiracy charges
on the illiterate masses, hut ed-
ucated Indians tend to ridicule
the accusations.
who tells her: "This week's
C.I.A. activities include four
price-rise demonstrations, seven
buses hijacked by students, plus
one cyclone in Orissa."
Some leading newspapers
have called on Mrs. Gandhi
either to name the C.I.A. agi-
tators and throw them out of
the country, or to stop repeat-
in,, the charges. Mrs. Gandhi
says that since much has been
written about the CLA. role
i.n trying to overthrow the gov-
ernments of developing coun-
tries, it is the agency's respon-
sibility to prove that it is not
guilty of intrigues in India.
Beyond the apparent attempt
to take people's mind off their
very real pocketbook problems,
the charges about the agency
probably reflect a feeling on
the part of the Indian Govern-i
meat that relations with Wash-!
ington, with President Nixon
looking like a winner on Nov.
f, are not likely to improve for
a long time,
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By I.c b: Simons
15'as3in;;.on?i' t1ore':nt;cr?,ice
NEW D:L,IIt, Oct. Ia ?--
TVit a day Mum to Po by
lately ill whicil e'v''C::' news-
paper front pc -,. its town
isn't shout n:, .i uiit the dire
effect the rC.nfr :h In'el-
Iigmte , 2- ?.,c is Navin;;,
jcn't haw.;; or
ing on India'; i
r'i ty.
rise; Warns irs. C;,;ndhi ,,
the sober and :'or 'feted
daily 11indtt 1:r r, i:,ia ed yes-
terday across four calun:ns
ill the middle of pave one.
There would he "no in-
quiry into CIA activitie ,"
count.r'retl tl:e ectt~ally presti-
gicu . Statesman on the
same day, csp181]ong fur-
ther in t.ile sub he;:cline that
G :ndhi rejects opposi-
tion dc!ynand."
` "CI;k hand in phones" was the c c-cectcit,ir
on a small but widely used
item distributed by the
Preis Trust of India earlier
in the week.
In the tribal areas of
Arunachal Prrdc+sh, readers
were told, CIA agents were
suspected of l,hssinr out
cardboard record players
and plastic clines which, al-
t.hough they had not yet
been iran-~laied, "Perhaps
carried messages preaching
Christianity."
The propaganda outbursts
against; the CI,A were
started by leaders of the rnl-
.in ; Congress I'arty in as
yet undisclosed reasons. But
then. as the gavcrnrnent
sought to cool off tm usue,
-Opposition forces sensed an
opporttill ity to embarrass
the ConcrNNs Party and are
not letting the matter die.
And, as though conceding
the obvious confusion
orison; goverrltrent leaders,
politicians, newspaper edi-
tors and just folks, the
ri? ihtl?ing Motherland enti-
tied its latest otiering ml
CIA: "It's here, it's not here,
it's growing,."
That "it's h ere" is l,eyond
doubt. Not even officials of
much - a fact of American
lire in India as is the i lealny
vii'' pond in the center of
this embassy buGdiii
Put beyond theif there is
dociat. Ni. (me really khlm,s
the rstcnt of CIA Operations
in India except the CIA, c,iid
they're not Odl;ing.
Much of the c:oulit even be
at.tabuted to the on-a;.'ain,
o?t-'strain approach Prime
ttini to Indiia Gandhi and
her senior ministers halve
taken anct 1.11c;' rcfu;al to
come forward lvithh any evi-
d'_nCe more solid than a
cardboard grahnophone to
prove that CIA activities
were detrimental. to Ind.;,.
"lsvcryorie lcnolvs that the
CIA has been active in India
and there is no question of
pi'oVihl t it.," i11rs, Gandhi
huif2d last week. But her
pallIIcal oppoiheots Are not
pilling to let it go at that.
During a meeting last Fri-
clay of the pa rlia.ncntin'y Con-
suiti_t.iVe ewntllittee, a sort of
nhini P;arIianlcnt in the off-
sca,nn, three opposition lead-
ers demanded that the gov-
er.lrnent publish a white
pc:'cr on CIA activities,
The prime minister rc-
portedly refused. According
to opposition members who
attended the session, die first
claimed that CIA activities
were under conk of but later
said they "are on the in-
Crease and we mast continue
our - vigil."
This the confusion.
It all began No weeks an
when the president or ADS.
Gandhi's ruling Con Tess
Party, Dr. Shankar Uayril
Sharma, proclaimed that the
shadowy hand of the CIA
was behind a spreading rash
of student riotin CorcIrittc~~.
hlt_hust pr:(lcv-!li%Taili? hotly of
her nruionai rail!;,, part'.'.
'L'llc li.,u?ty presi~.ici.~, Shankar
! `',ilarn;a, i::d t 1i11d(
I)a}
the char e about talc CIA.
?,Tay Ii e pclnicl(cd
UiJPI'v('I'C.
But, c.ccordin; to
the, pltl'lc>^. (if the Mack on
the Ci:1 could h:;ive ball the
result of panic by the Inciian
g3CCI'j 1) C1"! 7trlcr IlliCSSifl
an incieas ;1:; hip,: i X11 irtt'1 fcr
ence ill Ii1,2 iutcrT;i;, atia.rs of
the co_tntr,;. It, 8150 l.c;icved~
that it rllav ]hive been '2111,
ittcnlpt (o (:' lil(li~i:, for_
einn r(1 t,ons sine t.r; r;in
Of t1w, ii:dO-``o 1.^t
frictclship Iasi August, is si1nificn1, observers
1 cc~ Il ti' ~t t lc cii,t c 1 S
1eV(CC1 i,;.Ili C thr, CI , t}lr'i
eve of th pro-llos-l". C'c !n-
mur.ist pr:?! lrllncll. , of a
n};tUJi1v.'1(iC tl'ill!(,!L' ! , -ai_a 11;('.'
c!iri' Lac;, on icolui III( i,oti..
Gies by Airs. G:Iridl'i`s too', Crn-
li'n't an(l ako ",aJii:>1 C'i. al
t.l ic. Dui tlt n t ?o'. r. The
Ican,;i t li., l India
(0 m;:I(c coni'c~~ions to i akl
;stun for a d;lrab,c pca('.c.
11 h1'C ), iI's. Gandhi is not
kno,:n to talcr,ite im, interfer-
eilce in I ia's i?II(ill'~:, it was;
itaiCd that the h11=51a115 were i
tr} ill" to est her luvaity fol-
low!':(-', liii'iC' C\]tal`_;!On frolil
t. ,vpt d; spite. ircaly of
fl. 1('iidSl~!p. 1ht' Ii llSsialls re-
jpor!_l! Ir_ (i1;it nn;r that Mrs.
s ac!,.ct'cri s!i;:
has szi out
mc:;t of P,11;istan-she mm?
dSii the Ii~iss ans to mind nd (belt
o'a:t) l:Itmts.
Mr: G imlhi rccrr;ted het'
friend hip with Russia and
1-11. ri that it, was the only
tt that stood by India in
difficult days 1;:,1 year.
i;.' shn told the local Comrnu-
1;.sts that their ways m'c nei-
t ;er l',i!nt to brln^, do.'.'n
prices Iior solve India's staff
nrlii cco;1o1'.15',
IIm.'.cver, Mrs. Gandhi 1a=t
nl:Itt a crcd an C. diet re-
about the CIr1, siil'iJOl't-
ilI? h thesis that it w" ;S ac-
tu-+11y aimed at other sources
!.al;entin, trouble than tl;e
Not a gm'stiou of prl vilib it
Elie h: r Said cill'll('l' -t I",-m-
chi. in i;i!1_tr s(atc, lily( it
was for III CIA to prove that
it is not ac-live in India." L?>`1
Ilig;ht she s ill, ever\' nuo imev.'
it the CIA 11,-;d been -ciiv("
in India and it wwz?_s r,ot a
qucs,tion c~ proving it.
Arnericatts tnemselvc's 111(1
+'rit(cn l;oc,';s telling; Nov.- the
CIA 1'n:rl attompted irl ',' r'a':;en
,nr tc; plc! solve forei;u Lovcrn-
;n1cnts t..hicll did not fall !n Lnc
v,ith [ho-, U.S.
It is lnatler of record that
the ]!(hall govc.t.11llellt p:o')-l-
bly was onc of the Icw coun-
tries v:hich i:new ah U1 the
Soviet cfforls to topple. I!lC
Saclat
and tiie Indian ovcrnnlcnt
was far from pleased tt ilh that
prospect.
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PRIME 1"INISTER Indira Gcnn.hi refused to day to give Secretazy of State William P.
Reefers the Proof he is repo. ted to have requested to suastaniiat;e her charges that
t7 U.S. Central Int elh Bence Agency is active in India.
QEver'yone ii-as inert CIA has been active in India and than is no question of
proving it,e the Prime Minister told a na:io pal convention of her Congress Party in
central Ahnsadal;ad city according to Indian news actencies.?
-when any fc::ign intelli-
gence agency comes here,
what does it do ? This does
not need any proof.
Air. P.o;e:?s . was understood
to have .:;I-.v d foreign :,iiniater
Swaran )''in h during a meet-
ing in New York last Thu.urs-
day for proof of charges that
the CIA was interfering in
India's internal affairs -? a
charge denied ' by the State
1 Department.
I Opposition politicians and
leading Indian newspapers also
have urged the government to
back up the charges, which
were first made three weeks
a'o by the Congress Party
President Shankar _u Sharma.
Airs. Gandhi personally enter-
ed the controversy last. Tues-
day warning partymen in East-
ern 1311ar state to be vigilant
against the CIA.
Welcomed a=stirance
She repeated the warning
at the national convention.
At the s.nine time, she wel-
comed Mr. Rogers assurance to
Swaran Singh that the United
States did not want to inter-
fere in the internal affairs of
other countries.
(If this signifies a change
in policy, we welcome it))) she
said,)) but we must always be
vigilant.))
The Prime Minister said that
even foreign scholars had been
used for CIA purposes. She
did not alaborate but claimed
her government had informa-
tion that scholars had been
given cot-ner taskse beside re-
search.
The 'Indian Governn.ent, with
rare exceptions, has stopped
issuing visas to American seho-
Lars in th_ past .several
months. - AP.
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]llore Trouble In India m the numerous past crises in India,
iwe will do our best to see that Indians
a time when India's non-alignment
inst the United States is reaching a
"Coexistence by itself does not pre- stay alive, at whatever price it takes
when the crisis hits.
elude policies, separately or in concert,
`which are detrimental to the freedom And judging by India's past record,
and interests of third countries," says when it's over or even sooner we will
be told to go fly a kite or perhaps be
tt(e Prime Minister.
spat upon again in the good old Krishna
;Even though India, since Nehru's lIenon way.
time, has been inveighing loudly against
choosing sides for a cold war, when pos- . But there is some kind of cosmic jest
itive steps at last are taken to reduce in all this. Though America is gradu-
the friction, we still can't be right -in ally deciding that it should not be the
world's gendarme, it is finding the role
Indian eyes-for being so wrong, of world Samaritan much harder to put
Now there is the excitement about aside, even when it is reviled while
supposed CIA men, first voiced Sept. coming to the rescue.
21 by Shankar Sharma, president of the Of course, as Prime Minister Gandhi
Congress Party, and then taken up but writes, "Each country has its own her-
without a single factual detail by Mme. itage and distinct personality . . . " And
Gandhi at another party meeting. Our ours appears to be a three-way split:
embassy says it's "outrageous" but pro- Uncle Sugar, Uncle Shylock, Uncle Sap.
tests get nowhere.
,pew point of frenzy, wit h absurd
harges that the country is swarming
with our CIA agents, it appears that
India will soonij`in a desperate situ-
ation for food again. And there is lit-
erally no place for her to turn for help
but here.
It is as fine and delicate.a diplomat-
ic kettle of fish as anyone could ask for.
.India has been making sanctimonious
noises all over the world about its prog-
ress, independence (despite that treaty
with the Soviet Union) and wholesome
right-mindedness in such matters as the
Bangladesh civil war - while casting
America in the villain's role at every
opportunity.
The current issue of Foreign Affairs
Quarterly contains a long and tedious
piece by Mme. Indira Gandhi, India's
prime minister, outlining how saintly
. her country has been for the past 25
years and how little our assistance has
been of assistance.
(Among o t h e r inaccuracies, s h e
charges America p o i n t blank with
"openly backing Pakistan at the cost of
basic human rights" last December.
As more objective observers recognize,
American leadership in a y privately
have been "tilted" toward keeping the
status quo insead of launching even
bloodier times, but "openly" we did
nothing at all.)
So the shrill tone of Indian polemic
continues apace. Even the building of
American bridges to Peking and Mos-
cow is harpooned by Mme. Gandhi for
devious motivations if not results, and
her suspicion is broadly hinted that
Washington and Peking, if not Moscow
too, are getting closer in order to per-
petrate some outrage against New
Delhi.
And there are elaborate Indian ex-
planations in the United Nations on why
those 90,000 Pakistani soldiers haven't
been sent home yet, nearly a year after
the civil war and their capture by the
Indians. (Americans might be critical?
Confuse them with oratorical footwork!)
In the midst of all this oratory comes
news that there has been a severe
drought on the Ganges plain this year
and the crops of food grains may be the
worst in a long while. And population
has gained another 3 percent in the past
year, as usual.
of its new closeness with its
treaty partner, the Soviet Union, it
might be expected that India could ob-
tain some help there - if the Soviets
themselves had not experienced such a
disastrous crop year that they are buy-
ing grain in the American market at a
tremendous clip.
Thus, as one writer has put it, "ev-
erything comes back to the United
States, the specialist in concessionary
food programs." Judging by our record
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Campaign HGs U.S. Embassy Guessing
Whether It 1s at Bidding of Indira Gandhi
BY WILLIAM J. DRUMMOND
Times Staff Writer
NEW DELIH-A month
ago Shankar Da"-,al Shar-
mem-
V ma was just another
.
ber of the faceless collec-
tion of middle-aged men in
New Delhi humbly doing
the political bidding of In-
dira Gandhi.
Sharma was handpicked
by the prime minister last
May to be Congress Party
president. She was looking
for loyalty. and not neces-
sarily brilliance.
Thus, everybody expect-
ed that Sharma, an educa-
tor and lawyer from Mad-
hya Pradesh, would oper-
ate in his post 1w'hile keep-
ing an extremely low pro-
file, as his predecessors
had.
But almost overnight
Sharma has become a
lightning rod of controver-
sy, all because of his one-
A an campaign against the
U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, which he accused
of fomenting violence in
India.
Little Enthusiasm Seen
Since Sharma is the
good-natured jovial fellow
he Js, his friends do not
think he has much zest for
playing the role of the fire-
brand anti-American.
Is he doing Mrs. Gand-
hi's bidding? This is the
question that has the U.S.
Embassy here guessing.
Embassy spokesmen call-
ed Sharma's CIA charges
outrageous and without
basis in fact.
The real truth is a bit too
brutal for the embassy to
make clear -to the Indian
Of course, the CLk is
here, but mostly shadow-
ing Russians.
The CIA charge has been
made repeatedly here for
years. The only thin, new
this time was that, the
source was the president
of the Congress Party. It
was particularly strange
coming from Sharma. lie
likes America and Ameri-
cans and follows the Har-
vard Alumni Magazine.
His recent plunge into
the. world of count er-
espionagc has earned him a
thorough roasting in the
Indian piers, but he pic-
tures himself as being
locked in desperate com-
bat with an evil spy net-
work sponsored by the
CIA.
His mission, which he
happily decided to accept.,
Is to expose this American
"sonawallah," the Hindi
equivalent of Goldfinger.
Trip to Party IICI.
To get to the bottom of
the Sharma question, one
insist. take- a short trip to
Dr. Pajenclra Prasad Road
In New Delhi. Amid a
large garden sits a low-
lying brick bungalow that
Is the headquarters of the
All-india Congress Com-
mittee. Sharma's office is
a s .p a r t anly furnished
room ? with cloth curtains
over the doors and a beat-
up old air. conditioner
churning in the window.
Sharma enters suddenly
through a parted curtain.
The first impression he
makes is of great volume.
Perhaps this is due to his
dhoti-a garment of billow-
ing linens that makes him
look like he's under full
moustache. He looks ex-
actly like what he is-a 54-
year-Old Congress wallah.
"Thcre.are attempts be-
ing made to interfere in
our internal affairs by
backing one political party
or another. We are in eco-
nomic difficulties now-a
price rise and unemploy-
ment," he tells a visitor.
"The CIiA has always been
around, but this is the first
organized attempt to ex-
ploit di.c.ontent? and create
violence and oppose the
government."
Why does the govern-
ment not act. against. the
agents?
. "The administration
may not speak because of
certain n a t it r a l inhibi-
tions, but. it is my duty as
a political leader to warn
the people about these
conspiracies," he said.
Before dismissing Shar-
ma, one must. keep in
mind that. this is a man
with a doctorate in consti-
tutional law from ' Cam-
bridge and lie is a former
Brandeis fellow at 1-lar-
vard Universitv, Ile
knows what he is doinfr. if
he is deliberately being
wrong, there is a reason
for it.
But what? '
Most observers are be-
ginning to think tnat the
Congress Party is looking
for a scapegoat to blame
for the unrest sweeping
the cities. Demon tratioll,;
against high prices and
unemployment are becom-
ing increasingly strident,
and it is easier to blame
the unrest on the CIA than
to admit the government's
eco;iomic programs have
flopped.
Speaking in Bihar on
Monday, M r s. Gandhi
added her voice to the
anti-CIA clamor:
"It is not for us to prove
that this agency is work-
public. Washington just sail. He wears a white ing on our counir~. ]t is
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fluence Indian internal upper like . is . g rnished
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NEW DELHI - U.S. Embassy sources in New Delhi were quoted
by Western newsmen as e:cpressing alarm on Tuesday concerning the
speech by India's Premier Indira Gandhi in which she blasted the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency for stepping up its hostile, anti-Indian activ-
ities. Mrs. Gandhi spoke Monday to local workers of her ruling Congress
Party at the industrial center of Ranchi in northeast India, a steel-mak-
,ing and coal-mining area.
Premier Gandhi told the Ranchi meeting that Indians should be on
their guard against the CIA and act to foil its operations. Her remarks
produced a violent reaction among U.S. officials, who said in New Delhi
that U.S.-Indian relations are already at an all-time low and appear to
be headed even lower. It was learned that in Washington the Nixon Ad-
ministration quickly and indignantly told Indian diplomats that Mrs..
Gandhi's remarks were "not constructive." However, former U.S. Am-
bassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, has written about a substan-
tial CIA presence in his embassy in New Delhi. At one time, there were
more than 1,000 officials posted to the New Delhi embassy, whose duties
Were not clearly defined to Galbraith.
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Alleges CIA
Activities
NEW DELHI, Oct. 3 (UPI)
-Prime Minister Indira Gan-
dhi's attack on the activities of
the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency in India raised fears
in U.S. embassy circles here
today of further damage to In-
dian-'American relations.
Mrs. Gandhi told a local
Congress Party meeting yes-
terday that she had informa
tion that the CIA had become
active in India.
. She asked the party workers
to be vigilant and to counter-
act the CIA's activities.
Mrs. Gandhi did not say pre-
cisely what the CIA was doing
in India. It is not for us to
prove that this agency is work-
ing in our country," she said.
"It'is for the CIA to prove
that it is not active in India,"
Sniping at the CIA has be-
come traditional in India.
Shankar Dayal Sharma, presi-
dent of the Coigress Party,
resurrected the issue on Sept.
21 at a news conference. He
accused the CI-1 of involy-
ment in recent civil disturb.
ances here.
At the time.- a U.S. embassy
spokesman said "Such accusa-
tions are outrageous and have
no basis in fact." But the em
bassy declined to comment on-
Mrs. Gandhi's remarks. -
' In Washington, State De-
partment 'officials denied her
charges. Department spokes-
man Charles W. Bray was
asked: "'Are you privy to what
the CIA is doing?"
"We are quite satisfied," he
replied.
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`Stirrin g Up the Indian Masses'
707 some years in Washington ma have to back up his charges?
.ui'.. ii vas iasnionaoie to say mar
the initials of-the Central?Intglli-
genceAgency - CIA - stood for
"Caught In the Act."
,And, along the line, it has also
become fashionable to accuse the
CIA of every bit of chicanery im-
aginable.
} Seldom, however, has anybody
made so flimsy a case against the
CIA as did an official of India last
week.
. The president of the Congress
Party, India's dominant political
party, accused the CIA of being
responsible for clashes between
citizens and police in various parts
of India.
Dr. Shankar Dyal Sharma said
the purpose behind the agitation is
to' attempt to show that "after all,
India is not strong. It was militari-
ly, victorious but it is economically
weak and politically disjointed."
To the credit of the Indian
press, it did not let Sharma off the
hook so easily.
What proof, it asked, did Shar-
He replied that he had concrete
evidence, but then refused to di-
vulge it.
Asked why' he did not lodge ar
formal protest, he replied that
course "would not be worthwhile."
Asked whether there couldn't
be violence without CIA instiga-
tion, he replied that "the Indian
masses are generally peaceful."
Asked whether there were not
other intelligence agencies besides
the CIA active in India, he re-
plied: "There may be but no oth-
ers have caused us trouble."
But the Indian people, despite a
low in India-U.S. relations in the
aftermath of the Indo-Pakistani
war, were not ready to swallow
the allegation.
The Indian Express published a
cartoon depicting Sharma as
blaming the CIA for a recent cy-
clone.
This time, it seems it was Shar
ma, rather than the CIA, who was
"caught in the act." - i
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a farmer May order the sex of a calf. More research is neces- when the Fleet Street press interpreted the import of his research
in sensational fashion.
Bulls in Evening? "They made a lot out of the
potential human application," he
torn and reared in Jessore, in what is now Last Pakistan, Dr. was said
was p" ' egnanthey a lot of t withiouafirst child. i~Ihey asked twhetherlwellv anted
khattacharya said he was always fascinated by science. Ile at- a boy or girl. We said, 'a girl.' When the baby turned Out to be a
tended Bengal Veterinary College on a scholarship. girl, the
papers implied the had arranged it that v:ay.,,
He was working with the Department of Animal Husbandry at Dr. Bhattacharya said he prefers to think of sex pt-eclcter-
Calcutta University when he first became interested in sex deter- urination in terms of its benefits to animal husbandry. "It ctin
urination. make an enormous contribution to an increased food supply, par-
"I was helping with artificial insemination," he said, "and I tlculerly protein,,' he said.
noticed that farmers insisted on bringing their cows to its in the A Iific7li, lie believes the use of his discoveries by humans _-
evening instead of in the Morning. I asked about this and I permitting parents to have their "wish" ill terms of their
learned they were convinced that calves which were conceived in children's sex - would create "all kinds of social problems, in
addition to religidus problems,"
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the thousands of sleepers ndled line n duty and 343 wounded in fights with "The beauty of Calcutta," Police Sgt.
the sidewalks every night, bundl Maoist 'terrorists over the last nine S IS. Chakrabarty said last week, "is
rags against rnuscluitoes and rats.
months, according to police statistics. that people can be fighting on tlas side
The richest in this crowded, cram- "The most vulnerable man in Cal-
of the street and women and childre
who ing city are like that his businessman
wife e cotta, former Police Commissioner will be passing b
who was told recently that ?n.:_ by over there."
would be given a local anesthetic. His Ranjit Gupta said, "is the poor police Sometimes this localization of the
reaction was instinctive: "Oh no," he constable who has to live In the violence becomes almost comic. One
sident tells of watching from his
bout $25 a month
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instructed the doctor, "make sure she slums.
imported one." and there aren't enough guns to allow bedroom window while two rival politi-
gets an They number their servants (called him to take one home. cal factions faced each other In the
an living in the street below. One leader from each
li
cem
bearers) by dozens or scores, get their The off-duty po
whiskey from bootleggers, smoke slums tries to pretend he isn't a cop. group stepped forward carrying a
black-market American cigarettes and "My wife has never seen me in my bomb in a Calcutta version of "High
live behind high walls. uniform," .one 15-year veteran said. Noon." After lengthy exchanges of
Now, all but the most carefully But almost every day there is a news- threats and verbal abuse, the men
watched of walls are stenciled with the paper report of a constable being burled their bombs, which were weak
hammer and sickle of the Marxist wounded or killed near his home. anti did little damage. Everyone
t walked away unhurt.
Communist Party and a trip down o~rn
is occasionally made Unpleasant by the 'High Level of Tolerance' A wealthy man was called from a
discovery of a corpse In the road, LTIIOUGH THE WAVE of political garden party for 200 guests several
hacked to death and left untouched for violence causes serious concern, months ago to answer the telephone.
hours. Calcutta, despite its misery, has not "You've got 30 minutes to get all
Long infamous for its poverty and as had an upheaval the size of Watts' or your guests out," the caller told him.
a nightmarish example of the pros- Washington's. "If you don't, we throw bombs over the
lens common to large urban areas, A year ago, when the largest of the wail."
Calcutta has developed another spe- The man lied that the party was his
wedding celebration and thereby a
clalty-political murders. three Communist parties called a mass
most important day in his life. "I can't
By official police count, 244 people rally and filled downtown Calcutta's
enormous part. with farmers and the
have been killed for political reasons send all my guests away from my wed.
poorest of workers, there were predic-
over the last 10 months. Everyone ding," he said.
agrees that hundreds of other killings bons of imminent disaster. "If they had been told to burn the "Ididn't realize It was your wed-
go unreported, in large part because city clown, they would have burned it ding," the bomber replied. Forgive
they happen in sections of Calcutta down," aman who watched the rally me for bothering you." Half an hour
where the police have given up patrol- from a safe distance believes. later, the bomber called back to offer
ing. are relatively - Gloomy predictions have fuller, more polite congratulations on-