As concerned Indian citizens, we invite your attention to the reports in the media about the Mitrokhin archives and the Benediktov diary. If the revelations reported therein are correct, then we believe very grave issues have arisen in regard to our national security.
It appears that from the time of Shri JL Nehru, many amongst our leaders (especially from the Congress and communist parties) as well as a leading section of the media, have been on the KGB payroll - and there is reason to believe the KGB continues to maintain its links with our leadership. Indeed, during Smt Indira Gandhi's prime ministership, it is alleged that, in KGB words, "it seemed like the entire country was for sale" (quoted In India Today, Oct 3, 2005) and the Soviets "virtually ran India's foreign, economic and defence policies" ( http://dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=siddharth%2Fsiddharth136%2Etxt&writer=siddha rth ).
There is also the report that Dr Yevgenia Albats, a Russian scholar at Harvard University, in her book "The State Within A State - The KGB and Its Hold on Russia", revealed that Soviet trading companies were making payments to a firm controlled by Shri Rajiv Gandhi as far back as 1982, and that the Swiss newsmagazine Schweizer Illustrierte, citing KGB archives, reported in November 1991 that Smt Sonia Gandhi was controlling in her son's name a secret account worth 2.5 billion Swiss francs.
Moreover, Shri Rahul Gandhi, in 2001 on a private visit to the USA, reportedly was detained by the FBI at Boston airport for not being able to explain the USD 200,000 he was carrying with him into their country. He was released on the intervention of our country's national security advisor ( http://in.news.yahoo.com/050308/43/2k1rd.html and http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=10397 ). Why our country's national security advisor should intervene to rescue from the American police someone apparently smuggling into the USA the current equivalent of about a crore of rupees itself demands an enquiry.
Smt Sonia Gandhi heads the National Advisory Council and has access to all government records. Her son Shri Rahul Gandhi is an MP and publicly stated he could have been prime minister had he wanted to be (Tehelka, Sept 24, 2005).
The Mitrokhin/Benediktov/Albats/Schweizer Illustrierte reports are so specific, the circumstantial evidence prima facie so persuasive and the implications for our country so explosive that we join the demand already publicly raised in regard especially to the following issues:
1. The Mitrokhin Archives Volume II (Vol. I had revealed KGB agents in the
West, who were later tried and convicted by courts of law) vindicates a demand for investigation of KGB links of Smt Sonia Gandhi and her son Shri Rahul Gandhi, and also of the KGB nexus with the Congress and communist part
