Diplomacy and war are supposed to be in the same continuum, and so it appears are intelligence and terror. If we go by newspaper reports, it appears that ISI is a de-facto subsidiary of CIA while Al Quaida is its breakaway grouping. CIA is also engaged in the subtle and very sophisticated art of information management to engulf high offices.
These entities, all three of them have been operating with impunity, bypassing their own domestic laws, infiltrating almost every other institution, economic, governmental, religious, charity groups, sciences and arts delegations. The same ofcourse was true of KGB in Soviet era, and probably is true of many other agencies at present. Such setups have been the prime movers of terror infested era we are witnessing nowadays.
The analysis of intelligence experts like Raman, may be useful as counter-intelligence literature, but can not be expected to address these underlying issues.
