As there were no original KGB documents or copies of original documents, the material itself was of no direct evidential value, but it was of huge value for intelligence and investigative purposes. Further, the protagonist Ragini Phule states - "Mitrokhin ke report ko world ka best counter-intelligence report mana jata hai lekin India me.....ushhhh !!! Since the Pradhan Sewak [Translation: Prime Servant/helper (what the current Prime Minister calls himself)] hasn't removed the word 'socialist' from the Constitution, will Agnihotri call Modi a Russian puppet too??!! Needless to say, Mitrokhin's story doesn't seem to be credible at all. 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Download books for free. Large arms caches were hidden in many countries to support such planned terrorism acts. [3], In July 2014, the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College released Mitrokhin's edited Russian-language notes for public research. Was he controlled by Russia too?!! Why? But to get away with it for 13 years (1972-1985) is something that is very hard to believe. Had Mitrokhin photocopied the original documents and then handed those over to the Brits, then it's credibility would have been much higher. If one believes Mitrokhin's story about how he copied the contents of classified documents, then one would have to believe that he was able to copy the secret documents starting from 1972 until his retirement in 1985 without ever even being suspected. Shastri ji ke death ke 10 saalon ke andar India ko phir se colonize kiya gaya. Advance notice of this operation "was almost certainly" given to the KGB.[63]. After all, if Russia can wait for 10 years, then the US can wait for 25 years too !! Yahaan sab chalta hai" [Translation: I'm done with this ethical shit. There is a big difference between the two. SIS stated that they were clearing the UK chapters with the Home Secretary and the Attorney General, as required before publication of the book, but, the Committee found, they did not do so. This film is supposedly about the mystery surrounding the death of the second Prime Minister of India, Shri. "[9], In India, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, L. K. Advani, requested of the Government a white paper on the role of foreign intelligence agencies and a judicial enquiry on the allegations in The Mitrokhin Archive II. She further adds - "Incredibly, given the rigorous security rules in all Soviet archives, no one noticed what Mitrokhin was doing all day or checked him when he was going home at night". [In fact, at an earlier point in the movie, one can find a very similar dialog - "Mitrokhin archives world ki sabse best counter-intelligence report hai. Will somebody please explain the concept of 'Conflict of Interest' to this idiot film-maker? Still, the overall impact of this volume is convincing, though none of the material will send historians scurrying to rewrite their books. Starting in the year 1972, he started to copy the contents of important classified documents by hand on pieces of paper, take them to his house, type them at night and hide it under the floor. En 1972, il est chargé de superviser le déménagement des archives de Lubyanka vers le nouveau quartier général situé à Jasenevo. And did I mention that the original handwritten notes by Vasili Mitrokhin haven't yet been declassified by the Brits? (Senate Report 94-755, Book I – Glossary, 26 Apr 1976) In my opinion, this article proves that this movie was NOT so much a movie on Shastri ji's alleged murder but rather a Russia-bashing conspiracy theory. According to the archive, Alexius worked for the KGB as agent DROZDOV, and received an honorary citation from the agency for a variety of services. My name later appeared in the Mitrokhin Archive, as did Melita Norwood - the Granny Spy - but unlike her I have been largely ignored by those commentating on the history of espionage in the UK. Nobody in bollywood was giving me any work" !! [7], In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, who was Prime Minister at the time, established the Mitrokhin Commission in 2002 to investigate information about the KGB connections in Italy claimed in the Mitrokhin Archives. The Mitrokhin Archive was an amazing intelligence coup for the West. Apart from the Mitrokhin archives, the commission relied on various other sources including a consultant named Mario Scaramella. I, "The Sword and the Shield". Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (2000). Following his unsatisfactory performance, he was downgraded and posted to the Archives department of the KGB. "uske baad Mitrokhin ne 25,000 KGB ke secret documents Britain ko diya". Many court cases were registered based on these documents. Their injured innocence has failed to dent the credibility of the book and its intriguing contents. Here's what he had to say about it:"Mitrokhin served in the operational division of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate of the KGB till 1956. Let me explain: The British intelligence services and the British govt chose NOT to prosecute anyone named in the Mitrokhin archives in a court of law. Its findings, "The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report", were presented to Parliament in June 2000. When he defected to Great Britain, he brought the Archive with him. The priests were used as agents of influence in the World Council of Churches and in front organizations such as World Peace Council, Christian Peace Conference, and the Rodina ("Motherland") Society founded by the KGB in 1975. It shouldn't be hard to guess !!! He then defected to the UK in 1992. So the hunters became the hunted !! Would any country / intelligence agency want to kill a foreign leader on their soil and be blamed for it? And help to expose this sick propaganda hit-piece masquerading as a movie. But Vivek Agnihotri calls this report "the world's best counter-intelligence report" !!! Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin - The Mitrokhin Archive II - The KGB in the World-Penguin (2018) Dr Koenraad Elst , in his two-volume book titled The Saffron Swastika, marshals an incontrovertible array of facts to debunk slanderous attacks on the BJP by a section of the media. Sare assassinations CIA hi karwata hai? This dialog from 'The Tashkent Files' aptly describes the director Vivek Agnihotri - "I'm done with this ethical shit... Kisko chahiye facts? [22][23] Nikolai Leonov was Sub-Director of the Latin American Department of the KGB between 1968–1972. Many notable operations are alleged to have been conducted by the KGB to support international terrorists with weapons on the orders from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including: In 2002, the Italian Parliament, then led by Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition, the Casa delle Libertà, created a commission, presided over by Senator Paolo Guzzanti (Forza Italia) to investigate alleged KGB ties to opposition figures in Italian politics. [24], On September 2016, a work by two researchers (DR. Following the uproar caused by the allegations in Mitrokhin's book 'The Sword and the Shield', a parliamentary commission was set up in 2002 to investigate the claims that some Italian politicians were KGB agents and on KGB's payroll. A very bad trend for the future of India. In addition, ISC thought, "misleading stories were allowed to receive wide circulation", and the Committee found that SIS had handled neither the publication nor related media matters appropriately. Please share this article among your friends and relatives. Not even one political figure was exposed !! The movie also doesn't explain why the Russians had chosen to kill Shastri ji in the Soviet Union i.e. [25] However, Leonov stated that he became friends with many Latin Americans including some leaders, and that he and other Soviets supported the struggles of left wing groups. Also, the operational material matches western electronic intercepts and agent reports. It doesn't take a great researcher to uncover this information as one can find all these facts, and more, by a simple Google search. The author,"drawing on the KGB intelligence files smuggled out by Vasili Mitrokhin, reveals how the Russians used national liberation movements to foment race war in the United States and also provided arms to Irish terrorists to cause mayhem in the United Kingdom." There's absolutely NO LOGICAL REASON to leap forward 10 years after the alleged murder and cite an event as the "clue" to solving Shastri ji's alleged murder. As you are about to see, there are multiple mistakes in just this one dialog !! ; Discreditation of the CIA, using historian Philip Agee (codenamed PONT). Or did the director know about it and still go ahead with it?Well, at the very end of the movie, a few title cards show more allegations from the Mitrokhin archives; for eg. The old KGB front organisations may have been swept away, but Russian spying continues unabated. Everything is fair game now (i.e. He wished that he had retained "full control over the handling of his material". Not likely. 1, the Sword and the Shield) and in the Third World (depicted here in vol. Generally, there has to be at least two persons present to prevent the possibility of one person taking advantage of his being alone for photocopying or photographing files. If Indian read the Mitrokhin archives, it will lead to a civil war ]. The commission was shut down in 2006 without having developed any new concrete evidence beyond the original information in the Mitrokhin Archive. Andrew, Christopher, Vasili Mitrokhin (2000). It appears that this was the real intention behind making this movie while Shastri ji's death was reduced to a subplot. fake news etc.)] "Jab 1992 me USSR toota". i. The KGB director Yuri Andropov took suppression of anti-Communist liberation movements personally. [10] The spokesperson of the Indian Congress party referred to the book as "pure sensationalism not even remotely based on facts or records" and pointed out that the book is not based on official records from the Soviet Union. But this dialog makes it seem as if the alleged KGB agents were punished. The movie not only begins with Mitrokhin's story but also the 8-10min monologue towards the end of the movie and the title cards are based entirely on Mitrokhin's "archive". The US, British and their Western European allies (NATO) were engaged in intelligence operations and proxy war against Soviet Russia and its Eastern European allies. He had only made 5 movies in the last 15 years prior to the current one. ii. Aur bhi agencies hai" [Translation: Do you folks think that all assassinations are carried out only by the CIA? This department housed all the closed files of previous foreign intelligence operations. 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