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Conclusion

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Paul M. McGarr
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King's College London
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Spying in South Asia’s conclusion addresses the impact of the end of the Cold War, and the onset of a ‘war on terror’, on British and American intelligence relationships with India. It explores the rationale behind Indian governments’ softening of anti-CIA rhetoric from the mid-1980s, and the implications for New Delhi’s intelligence agencies of the precipitous collapse of the USSR, and the abrupt conclusion of the Cold War. It assesses factors underlying the post-Cold War recovery of Western secret services from the position of public pariahs in India to that of New Delhi’s principal partners in intelligence and security matters. In 1947, as the Cold War dawned and the newly independent subcontinent confronted formidable threats to its stability and security, New Delhi turned to London and Washington for covert support. Some half-a-century later, after decades of what might best be described as circumscribed cooperation compromised by conflict and conspiracism, the intelligence services of India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, once more found compelling reasons to put their differences aside, and work together as close partners in a new secret war.

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Spying in South Asia
Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War
, pp. 257 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conclusion
  • Paul M. McGarr, King's College London
  • Book: Spying in South Asia
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919630.012
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  • Conclusion
  • Paul M. McGarr, King's College London
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919630.012
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  • Conclusion
  • Paul M. McGarr, King's College London
  • Book: Spying in South Asia
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919630.012
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