• The KGB first prolonged contact with Indira Gandhi occurred in 1953. The second Chief directorate... surrounded her with handsome, attentive male admirer.... Indira was overwhelmed
• KGB sent suitcases of money to her house when she was Prime Minister
• KGB names Congress leader L N Mishra as one who accepted money.
• KGB funded CPI in many ways.
• KGB financed 21 non-communist leaders including four ministers in the 1977 general election.
• KGB wood Mrs Gandhi and claimed it influenced her anti-US stance and supplied her with suitcases of cash for the party.
• Indira Gandhi, code named VANO by the KGB, was sent suitcases of money meant for the Congress coffers. On one occasion, a secret gift of Rs 2 million from the politburo to the congress (R) was personally delivered by the KGB head in India, Leonid Shebarshin. Another million rupees were given on the same occasion to a newspaper supporting Mrs. Gandhi.
• In 1978, the KGB was running 30 agents in India, 10 of whom were Indian intelligence officers.
• V. Krishna Menon, as defence minister, was persuaded to buy Soviet MIGs and not British Lightnings. His election campaigns in 1962 and 1967 were funded by the KGB
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