Quatrain LIX -- KHUL JA MITROKHIN

Italy finds sense in the Mitrokhin papers
KGB’s old Vatican coups and capers
India, she put an ostrich to shame
Excuses, excuses, excuses... lame*

* In case we have already forgotten, Senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin’s memoirs among other significant issues, also details how the KGB considered Indira Gandhi’s India a ‘model of KGB infiltration of a Third World government’. How V K Krishna Menon’s election campaigns were funded by the KGB after he agreed to purchase Soviet Migs over British Lightenings (both fighter air crafts). How prominent members of the Left and cabinet ministers in Ms Gandhi’s cabinet, the Indian embassy in Moscow were on KGB payroll. The Indian political class (including the BJP, whose protests seemed only theatrical), carefully allowed all these revelations to pass by. An Italian commission set to up to probe Mitrokhin’s claims has found in a lot of sense in his book, including a confirmation of KGB’s plot to kill the Pope in 1981. refer link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4767652.stm