The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew

Author:Christopher Andrew [Andrew, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, True Accounts, Espionage, History, Europe, Ireland, Military, Intelligence & Espionage, Modern (16th-21st Centuries), 20th Century, Russia, World
ISBN: 0465003117
Amazon: B001J2VU48
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-05T04:00:00+00:00

At the elections of February 1971 Mrs Gandhi won a landslide victory. With seventy seats more than the undivided Congress had won in 1967, her Congress (R) had a two-thirds majority. The Congress Forum for Socialist Action had the support of about 100 MPs in the new parliament. Mrs Gandhi made its most vocal spokesman, the former Communist Mohan Kumaramangalam, Minister of Mines; one of his first acts was the nationalization of the coal industry. Kumaramangalam seemed to be implementing a ‘thesis’ which he had first argued in 1964: that since the CPI could not win power by itself, as many of its members and sympathizers as possible should join the Congress, make common cause with ‘progressive’ Congressmen and compel the party leadership to implement socialist policies.43 Another leading figure in the Congress Forum for Socialist Action was recruited in 1971 as Agent RERO and paid about 100,000 rupees a year for what the KGB considered important political intelligence as well as acting as an agent recruiter. His controllers included the future head of the FCD, Leonid Shebarshin (codenamed VERNOV).44

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