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 NEW DELHI (AP) - India's government was infiltrated in the 1970s by the Soviet Union's feared KGB intelligence agency, which bribed officials with millions of dollars in order to hold sway over its South Asian ally during the Cold War, according to a recently released book.
"The Mitokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World," says a high-ranking KGB officer used agents to persuade then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to declare a state of emergency in India in 1975. The officer was identified as Leonid Shebarshin, who served in New Delhi in the mid-1970s.
The emergency allowed India's government to arrest opposition politicians and freeze civil liberties for 19 months.
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