Unmasking Sonia Gandhi

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>Unmasking Sonia Gandhi

>S Gurumurthy

>September 20, 2004

>http://forumhub.com/indhistory/22278.10606.16.50.16.html

>

>There is no time for side shows. Let us go straight to the heart of the

>issue.

>The Indian spy agency, RAW, formed in 1968, had established a clandestine

>network with its counterparts in different countries __ with the USA, UK,

>Israel, France, West Germany and other countries which possessed the

>capability

>for exchange of information on terrorism, insurgency, China and similar

>subjects.

>

>The RAW did not consider Italian spy agencies as worthy of such

>association, as

>they did not have any capability. So India did not bother about them.

>

>Rajiv Gandhi entered active politics after Sanjay’s death in 1980. He began

>to

>participate in the classified briefings of the RAW even though he held no

>position in the government. Not just he, he wanted Arun Nehru and Arun

>Singh

>too to participate in such briefings. The agency protested saying that they

>had

>no official position. But Indira Gandhi stepped in and asked RAW to allow

>them

>to be present. The agency agreed reluctantly, but told Indira that their

>names

>would remain unrecorded in the briefing.

>

>This was when Rajiv was not in the government and was just a general

>secretary

>of the Congress party. Soon, even though he had nothing to do with the

>Government or the RAW, Rajiv began insisting that the RAW should liaise

>with

>the Italian spy agencies. Why Rajiv should have insisted on Italy? Did he

>study

>the importance of Italian assistance to India? Nothing of that sort. The

>reason

>is Obvious. Sonia.

>

>Rajiv had married her in 1968. The RAW felt that it would be a waste of

>time and

>money. But Rajiv would not relent. The agency finally gave in. So after

>more

>than a decade, the RAW was forced into accepting liaison with the Italian

>spy

>agencies whom they considered not worthy of association. Want to know who

>acted

>as the go-between for the RAW with the Italian spy agencies and arranged

>the

>first clandestine meeting between RAW spies and Italian spies? Believe it:

>Sonia!

>

>Obviously, she was in touch with Italian spies. An innocent and devout

>housewife, unconcerned about politics and state, was deep in her contact

>with

>the Italian spy agencies. This was when she was still an Italian national,

>had

>not yet accepted Indian nationality which she reluctantly did much later.

>Being

>in the Prime Minister’s household, she was in touch with the spies in

>Italy. So

>even when she was just a housewife and Rajiv was not yet in the government,

>she

>was linking the Italian spies to India.

>

>An aside. One of the reasons why the RAW would not touch the Italian

>agencies

>could be the presence of Sonia in the PM’s house. If they officialised the

>liaison with the Italian agencies, their reach would not be limited to RAW,

>but

>may extend to the PM’s house.

>

>Next, when after terrorism broke out in Punjab and the security agencies

>advised

>Indira Gandhi to travel in bullet-proof car, she wanted the Ambassador car

>made

>bullet-proofed. As India developed this capability only much later in 1985,

>a

>German company was chosen for the job.

>

>Want to know who brokered the contract with the German company? Walter

>Winci,

>the husband of one of Sonia’s sisters, Anushka! The RAW suspected that he

>got a

>small commission out of it. But the more critical was that a sensitive

>security

>work was given through Sonia’s brother. Look at the Italian influence Sonia

>had

>brought in even when Indira was alive.

>

>It is the same Walter Winci who, two years later, in 1986, insisted and

>received

>cash payment made by the Indian government. This was for arranging training

>by

>Italian security for SPG which had been established in 1984 for the

>protection

>of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

>

>The cash payment was first attempted through the RAW official posted at

>Geneva.

>Walter Winci refused to come to Geneva to receive that cash and wanted the

>RAW

>official to send it to Milan in Italy. Winci ‘assured’ the RAW official

>that

>that he had ‘good contacts’ in ‘Swiss’ and ‘Italian’ customs and he would

>not

>be checked. The RAW official would not budge.

>

>The recalcitrant official was finally told to tell Winci that the operation

>had

>been cancelled. But the money was delivered to Winci through the Indian

>Embassy

>in Rome.

>

>Want to know what for the cash was to be sent? For funding the traveling

>expenses of the Italian security officials to come to India and train

>Indian

>SPG commandos. This is the payment B.G Deshmukh, who was then the cabinet

>secretary, has mentioned in his latest book. But this training ended in a

>fiasco.

>

>The Italian trainers treated the SPG trainees rudely, and even slapped one

>of

>them. The RAW brought this to the notice of Rajiv and told him such

>ill-treatment may develop a grudge in the minds of the SPG against Rajiv

>which

>might be a security risk. Panicked Rajiv forthwith called off the training

>by

>Italians arranged by Walter Winci.

>

>After Rajiv was assassinated, Sonia began openly relying on Italian and

>western

>security for Rahul and Priyanka when they travelled to Europe. When Rajiv

>went

>to Paris in the year 1985 along with Sonia, a RAW official proficient in

>French

>was asked to go to France to liaise with the French security agencies.

>

>At Leon in France, the SPG officials panicked as Rahul and Priyanka were

>missing. But Winci told them not to worry. He told them that they were in

>the

>safe care of Jose Valdemaro, the husband of another sister of Sonia, Nadia.

>Winci told them that the two had been taken to Madrid in Spain, where

>Valdemaro

>hails from, by train and the Spanish authorities were taking care of them.

>

>The Indian security officials were stunned that, not they, but the Spanish

>and

>Italian security agencies were aware of the Madrid visit of Rahul and

>Priyanka.

>It is not just that Sonia did not want to trouble the Indian security

>system,

>or take the favour of Narasimha Rao who was the Prime Minister then. It was

>simply that she did not trust them.

>

>You want more clear evidence of her distrust of India? Here it is: In 1986,

>the

>RAW official stationed at Geneva was told by Jack Kunzi, the Commissioner

>of

>Police at Geneva, that the VIP children had returned safely to Italy after

>their visit to Geneva. Who were the VIP children? The RAW official had no

>clue.

>He knew nothing about their visit.

>

>The Swiss police official who was the RAW official’s good friend told him

>their

>names. You have any doubt who they could be? They were Rahul and Priyanka.

>They

>had come to Geneva by car with Walter Winci, said the Swiss official. He

>also

>informed the RAW official he was in the picture and the RAW official was

>not.

>He said that the Italian foreign office was the co-ordinator. It had

>informed

>the Swiss foreign office, who in turn informed the Swiss police.

>

>Jack Kunzi taunted the RAW official who was his friend, ‘‘Your Prime

>Minister’s

>wife does not seem to trust you or your embassy. She gets the security for

>her

>children co-ordinated by Italians.’’ Humiliated, the RAW official makes the

>usual complaint to his boss. The boss files the complaint. There ends the

>story

>of humiliation of India in Switzerland and Italy.

>

>Remember this kind of information spreads like wildfire in geo-politics

>through

>global spy network. That Sonia did not trust the Indian officials, or the

>Indian embassies, or the Indian security is now a matter of global

>geo-political information. Want to know more on this? Read on.

>

>After Rajiv’s assassination, the RAW official who was in charge of security

>arrangements abroad for SPG protectees which included Sonia, Rahul and

>Priyanka, knew less about her and her children’s travel plans than western

>intelligence and security agencies. The Indian agencies knew nothing or

>very

>little.

>

>George, her secretary, used to directly communicate to western agencies

>through

>Italian Embassy in Delhi and the Italian foreign office in Rome. The

>upright

>officer informed the RAW chief before he retired that the western agencies

>were

>better informed of Sonia’s and her children’s travel plans than the Indian

>agencies. He charged that this had created the unfortunate impression that

>Sonia did not trust the Indian agencies. His complaint went to Narasimha

>Rao

>who was the Prime Minister then. He felt unhappy that George, that is

>Sonia,

>was informing the Italian embassy, not the Indian agencies, but he could do

>nothing about it. You ask him now. Even now he will not tell the truth. But

>the

>RAW official would.

>

>So she was linked to the Italian spies and was familiar with bringing about

>spy

>connections, a highly skilled and scary business, as early as the early

>1980s.

>Yet she pretended, even now does, to be an innocent housewife.

>

>She brought her family into the security matters of India even when Indira

>was

>alive. She forced Italian security on India even when Rajiv Gandhi was

>alive.

>She openly distrusted Indian security and diplomatic system and privately

>liaised with the Italian diplomatic system for her security. If she did

>this

>when Indira was alive; if she went as far when Rajiv was alive; if she did

>this

>when she was just out of the Congress and out of power, what will she do

>when

>put in power?

>

>Or what she will not? Yet she pretends to die for India. This is not real

>Sonia.

>The whole western world, not exactly the friends of India, knows about her.

>But

>not we, in India. We do not know the real Sonia.

>

>(Writer’s email: comment@ gurumurthy.net)

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