Omerta is not just a word out of Mario Puzo. It is a pact of silence
that exists within the exclusive club of men and women who wage war for
their country in the shadows—the brotherhood of the intelligence
community. It was cleaved apart last week when the long-standing
political war between controversial former army chief General V K Singh
and a section of the Army establishment in connivance with the
government erupted again. The casualty was the Technical Support
Division (TSD), one of India’s most clandestine and effective
intelligence units, disbanded in July 2013 after General Bikram Singh
took over as army chief in May 2012. Military Intelligence (MI) sources
say that under severe interrogation to implicate General V K Singh in
“anti-national operations,” some of its best officers who earned their
stripes in Kashmir have become psychological wrecks. Their cover blown,
facing hostile enquiry boards and fearing for the safety of their
families, the former agents have written to Defence Minister A K Antony
to provide them security. An excerpt from a letter by an officer’s wife
notes that “For reasons best known to him probably because of his
secretive nature of job he refuses to divulge organisational issues with
me but has on numerous occasions in the last two months expressed death
wish and suicidal thoughts due to organisational stress. He once did
say that all this media hype has unnecessarily exposed him as a field
operator. Therefore, he strongly believes that there is a chance of a
threat to his life and to the life of his sources/informers who operate
within inimical/terrorist organisations.” The Army’s response was to
institute a court of enquiry against her to investigate the allegations.
Ironically, she has not been summoned even once in spite of two
sittings nor is she being discharged of the inquiry
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