The secret link between Indian external intelligence agency RAW and Israel’s Mossad is now open. During Modi government at Centre, Mossad has set up its biggest ever base of Mossad in New Delhi. No wonder several joint covert operations of RAW and Mossad are underway and most of them are targeted at Pakistan.
Sources said that after decades the President of India Pranab Mukherji will be visiting Tel Aviv soon. It would be followed by PM Narendra Modi’s visit next year. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has already visited Israel in a bid to propel a coordinated intelligence efforts between the two agencies.
Doval seeks help of Mossad in surveillance against D company
Mossad’s compulsion of joining hands with India is its increasing worry of the growing threat of the international terror groups to Pakistan nuclear’s installations. Mossad apprehends that ultimate goal of terror networks like ISIS is to gain access to Pakistan’s nuclear installation and technology. India too apprehends such threats from IS as well as other radical extremists groups like Tehreek-e-taliban and Jaish –e-mohammed.
Taking advantage of the saffron centre, sources said that Mossad has also spread its arms to border areas and metros like Mumbai and Banglore, the new hub of jihadist’ techno cells. But National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s present concern is more focussed on India’s most wanted don Dawood Ibrahim’s operation in Pakistan and his involvement in anti-India dealings. Dawood may be of no importance to Mossad but the agency considers that its help to Doval relating to D company could forge a strong bond between the two countries.
Sources said that under Doval’s tenure the RAW as well as IB is pro active on Dawood front. Both agencies are now better equipped with the state of the art surveillance equipments.
Since its inception in 1968, RAW has been guided by Mossad. Both agencies have carried out several joint operations despite India’s closeness to Palestine leaders. For years muslim organisations in India have been accusing RAW for playing into the hands of Mossad. However subsequent RAW chiefs have been successful in most of their secret operations which went undetected by media. However an ongoing corruption case in Delhi High Court has unveiled a secret operation authorised by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in the late 1980s.
A disproportionate assets case filed by R.K. Yadav, 62, a former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official against Anand Kumar Verma, 81, who retired as RAW chief in 1990, mentions two companies as alleged conduits for diverting secret funds. Yadav alleged that Verma, who was chief between 1987 and 1990, had amassed properties now worth over Rs 100 crore. It now emerges that two of the three flats bought by the RAW front firms were safe houses for Israel's secret service Mossad to operate covertly in New Delhi.
RAW has reportedly given offices to Mossad in Connaught place area. The offices were located in a building near CP. On February 18, 2013, a special CBI sessions court asked the agency to investigate the ownership and value of Verma's properties. These include a bungalow in Noida's Sector 26, and shops in Archana Shopping Complex, flats in Janakpuri and Feroze Shah Road, farmhouses in Bijwasan, Mehrauli and Sultanpur, a computer factory in Okhla and two flats in Bangalore. CBI submitted an application on March 8 stating its intent to challenge this order in the high court. But buried in Yadav's innocuous October 2009 petition are details of the two companies, which offer a glimpse into how RAW uses civilian companies to conduct its business.
Leading magazine India Today adds that the two companies were to serve as operational fronts for the India station chief of Israel's external intelligence agency Mossad. RAW insiders say the operation was carried out to camouflage the Mossad agent. This was because India did not have full-fledged diplomatic relations with the Jewish nation, but valued intelligence ties with it which it nurtured under its legendary founder R. N. Kao in the late 1960s.