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Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Role of a Mole in WOM ( CI/ CT OPs)

ROLE OF A MOLE IN WOM (WAR BY OTHER MEANS) OR CI/ CT (Counter Insurgency/ Counter Terrorist) OPERATIONS !

I have been a long votary of use of inside information or the moles to successfully handle Insurgency/ Militancy operations. If you have right informers at right places, you do not have to conduct large scale military operations, which become the cause of nursing resentment and hatred amongst local populace against the security forces. Their usage prevents the disturbance of population foliage. Thus, security forces can snatch initiative from the insurgents/ terrorists. This is the primary requisite to defeat Insurgency/ Militancy. Remember : GUNS DO NOT WIN BATTLES, IT IS THE "VIBHISHANAS OF RAMAYANA",  WHO DO IT. Unfortunately, India fails to learn this lesson from her own great epic. No wonders,  it grapples in the dark when it comes to deal with Insurgency and terrorism.

Elimination of Abu Ismail and his another colleague  on 14 September 201, in J& K,  both Pakistani Terrorists of LeT , responsible for killing of 8 Amar Nath pilgrims and wounding 20 others, had undoubtedly highlighted the importance of actionable and pinpointed information in “War by Other Means” (WOM). This can only be possible once security forces develop moles or “inside informers” within militant organisations.

My battalion had successfully done this in 1990-92 against ULFA in ASSAM. We did it without causing any disturbance to General public. I called it tackling NEEDLE IN THE HAY STACK. This has been amply explained in my recent book, ULFA INSURGENCY UN ASSAM, published on 01 March 2018. I have advocating this strategy since then. Unfortunately,  Army had dithered from this in the last few years. It had committed a big mistake on dismantling Technical Support Division (TSD) , which was doing a wonderful job in the Kashmir valley. With the recent elimination of some top militant leaders in the valley, it seems the army operations are back on track. The role of moles in Militancy infested areas has been fully justified. Moles help you to avoid disturbing the population foliage in the urban jungles of concrete.

However, India has been reluctant practitioner of this need. In fact, it had been persecuting its intelligent people who indulge in extracting such information. Ishrat Jahan elimination based on IB inputs in the recent years had put the poor police offices in great difficulties. . The case of DGP Vanzara and others is well known.  Indian politicians sacrifice national security for their short term political gains. This was done in the case of Lt Col S Purohit who was deliberately entrapped in Malegaon  Blasts and Samjhauta Express terror attack for political gains. The truth on his activities was well known to everyone who was anyone in the power structure of the country. And result was Lt Col Purohit had to incarcerate in Jails without trial for almost nine years.

A WIKILEAKS revelation suggests that much hyped and honoured ex Maharashtra Police ATS Chief,  late Hemant Karkare, might have been on the pay roll of US Embassy in New Delhi. He might have been a CIA MOLE in the Indian establishment, with links with political masters. It has been revealed in an article that he had met a very senior US DIPLOMAT in New Delhi. When he had got killed in MUMBAI 26/11 terror attack, it was resented by his handlers in US Embassy. The day, Karkare was eliminated in a pre-planned ambush during the Mumbai attacks, a cable sent to the US read : " --we have lost an important link and a vital evidence".  This is how intelligence agencies rope in High officials of administration to get inside information.

While whole nation is mum on this revelation by WIKILEAKS,  since 2010, but Lt Col S P Purohit had to suffer almost nine years in Indian jails without a trial on trumped up charges by the same police officer, who was allegedly on the pay roll of US Embassy. There are no doubts that Lat Col Purohit being from Military intelligence had penetrated some anti national organization but with high up links in the Indian establishment. He might have collected information on some of these Indian collaborators.  Was Hemant Karkare and some politicians along with some Indian military intelligence operators were part of this collaboration? You never know.

But revelations being made by LT Col S Purohit after his release on bail by Supreme Court(SC) do suggest that such a collaboration existed and his frame up in Malegaon blast case was a frame up to cover up some big fish. He has now alleged that Dawood Abraham, the noted underworld gangaster, responsible for Mumbai Blasts in 1993 was in Mumbai in 2005. He has also stated that a top Kashmiri leader, while in Givernment, used his red beacon vehicle to ferry Kashmiri militants and fake currency. This needs investigations because recent arrest by NIA of some Kashmiri separatists for Hawala Money do point towards such a possibility.

It has now come out that Army Court of Inquiry had cleared Lt Col S Purohit of the allegation of possessing RDX as was alleged by the Maharashtra ATS under Hemant Karkare. Even the ATS witnesses have retracted and stated that they were forced to make statements by the ATS Boss. Why did Hemat Karkare do this? Was he covering  his CIA connections and exploiting the need of some politicians to rake up Hindu Terror to garner Muslim votes. Were the politicians and ATS chief complementing each other's need to survive? It was definitely a marriage of convenience with gaping holes which are now emitting stinking gasses.

We also need to know as to what was Lt Col Purohit doing before he was splashed with Malegaon blast conspiracy accusations. It was no doubts. I do not blame CIA or USA , it is their job to create MOLE in our administrative structure. And as ATS boss in Maharashtra, HEMANT Karkare was a good catch for USA. It seems he must have played a vital role in not only influencing US decisions on denying VISA to Narender Modi but also propping a canard on "Hindu Terrorism". It is surprising that his gallantry award has not been withdrawn despite this revelation by WIKILEAKS.

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