After reading the sensational report, “ >Files speak of Bose deputy’s espionage acts ” (Oct.26), I began checking the web for further information. The webpage of the National Archives of the British Government had the following factual report under the transcription menu: “Among other alleged Soviet agents in the latest MI5 release is the Indian nationalist and diplomat A.C.N. Nambiar, whose file begins at KV2/3904. Nambiar was accused after WW2 of having been a Nazi collaborator. In 1959, however, a defector claimed that he had worked from the 1920s for Soviet military intelligence, the GRU. That controversial claim needs further research . There is no relevant material on Nambiar in the Mitrokhin archive which deals only with the KGB, not the GRU [emphasis added].”
Since the official British government report on the release of the file kept by them on A.C.N. Nambiar itself cautions that the claim that he had worked for Soviet military intelligence needs further research, it would have been proper for our newspapers/media to at least have passed on that caution in their reporting.
K.B. Kannampilly,Kochi
