Former chief of India’s premier spy agency (RAW) said Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), is the most powerful in the world.
While addressing a session at the Times Lit Fest in New Delhi, AS Dulat said, “The most powerful intelligence agency is either KGB which no more exists or ISI, because they are very anonymous.”
“I believe we’re as good as anybody else. We don’t have technical abilities but are fast catching up,” he said when asked to rate RAW against the spy agencies of the rest of the world. the former spy master said,
Earlier in July, in another startling revelation, Dulat admitted Indian intelligence agencies have over the years paid militants and separatists, along with mainstream politicians and political parties in Indian Kashmir to compete with Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI.
“So what’s wrong? What is there to be so shocked or scandalised by. It’s done the world over,” former RAW Chief AS Dulat said, while speaking to NDTV’s Barkha Dutt.