Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Daniel Moynihan

Author:Daniel Moynihan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2010-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Journal entry about the arrest of an Indian naval officer accused of spying for the United States, leading Moynihan to conclude that the U.S. should simply pull all C.I.A. operations out of India, since they learn little anyway.

AUGUST 6, 1974

TUESDAY

Grimsley arrived first to report the Indians have arrested a naval officer who has been providing us useless information about the Russians. We do not work against the Indians. We work with them. But evidently we cannot resist a Lieutenant Commander who comes up at a dinner dance and tells some spook he would like to get on the payroll. He has told all. Three Americans must depart immediately. And so now I have a CIA source in jail in Bombay, an ex-CIA informer on bail in Delhi (they let Drobot out), and two poor kids in jail as spies in Calcutta, the judge there having announced he will try them under the Official Secrets Act and in camera. . . . What may I ask is a man to do with the rest of a day that begins in such manner? I content myself with a long letter to Eagleburger saying that Kissinger must pull the C.I.A. out of India. It is a devastating liability while it remains. . . . Unquestionably we would get better and cheaper information. The alternative is to remain on the front page of the Indian press for yet another decade, with a quarter of the charges true and three quarters believed to be true by the most sophisticated and best informed people in government.

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