[Marxistindia] Home Minister's Meeting With CIA Chief

[news from the cpi(m)]

                                                          March 20, 2009


Press Statement


The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
the following statement:


                 Home Minister's Meeting with CIA Chief


The meeting of the CIA Chief with the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
marks a new stage in Indo-US collaboration. This is the first time that
an American CIA Chief has been accorded a meeting with the Union Home
Minister in India. Apart from meeting his intelligence counterparts in
India, the CIA Chief has been received at the political level,
signalling the new status of the CIA in India.


The CIA is notorious for its interventions in the political affairs of
various countries including destabilising governments considered
inimical to US interests. 


This is a pointer of how things have changed under the Manmohan Singh
government. India is fast becoming like Pakistan where the CIA and FBI
Chiefs meet with the interior minister and Prime Minister. 


The role being played by US security and military agencies in the
country and the manner in which the Congress-led government is promoting
such ties should be a matter of serious concern for all those who wish
to protect national sovereignty and the integrity of our democratic
system.

eom