The Unsolved mystery of the 1995 Purulia arms drop

The Unsolved mystery of the 1995 Purulia arms drop ::

In December 1995, a consignment of 2,500 AK-47 guns was dropped from the sky on a district in West Bengal. Who was it meant for?

Two decades later, the basic facts of the Purulia arms drop still beggar belief.
On December 17, 1995, a Russian plane with a Latvian crew and passengers that included a British arms dealer and a Danish smuggler flew over West Bengal, dropped 2,500 AK-47 weapons and 1,500,000 rounds of ammunition over five villages in the Purulia district and took off for Thailand.

The five Latvians and the Briton were arrested when they landed back in India and they spent many years in a Kolkata prison.
The Dane evaded arrest and disappeared, resurfaced in Denmark and eventually defeated Indian attempts to extradite him.
Meanwhile, it is still not clear whether the arms were meant for the Ananda Marga religious cult, as is the popular theory, or whether they were actually supposed to be routed to Kachin rebels in neighbouring Myanmar.

Since then, reams of newsprint have been expended trying to solve the riddle, as have a handful of television documentaries.
The latest cinematic exploration of the subject is Danish filmmaker Andreas Koefoed’s documentary The Arms Drop. The 94-minute film will be shown at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto between April 13 and May 3.
The prestigious festival represents the North American premiere for the 2014 production, which has been screened widely across Europe and has also been broadcast on television.
(An hour-long version was shown in January on the Indian channel Times Now.)

What i personally observed that 20 Years On, the Sleeping Dogs Continue to Lie..😡😡😡😡😡

Here is my finding...unfolding biggest conspiracy

It was well past midnight when the door of a Russian transport plane opened on the tarmac of Bombay’s Santa Cruz airport.
In the darkness, a wiry, blond and bespectacled man with a goatee and sunken cheeks climbed down the stairs to meet a group of men in an Airports Authority of India jeep that had driven up to the AN-26 aircraft after it was instructed to land.

After a quick chat with the men, he hitched a ride on the jeep to the airport terminus ostensibly to pay landing/parking charges.
Instead he made two phone calls to Hong Kong from a phone booth, coolly walked out of the airport building, hired a taxi and headed for Pune.

Since that night, on December 22, 1995, the man who would attain notoriety as Kim Davy, aka Niels Christian Nielsen – the so-called mastermind of the sensational Purulia arms drop – could not be traced for nearly 10 years, until he surfaced in his native Copenhagen, Denmark.

Twenty years later, the Purulia arms drop continues to remain a mystery and the putative process to get Nielsen extradited to India has proved to be a humongous failure,
the result of official lethargy, if not rank submission to the wiles and wishes of a foreign intelligence agency.

At Bombay airport, Nielsen’s guile and presence of mind, and the rank stupidity of Indian intelligence helped him escape. Over the years, some sections of an uninformed Indian media have given credence to the lies that Nielsen chose to propagate by claiming that the Purulia arms drop was a clandestine operation of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) to topple the Left Front regime of Jyoti Basu in West Bengal.

One television news channel, led by its garrulous chief anchor, frequently claimed to “break” interview-based stories on the arms drop.

But they did not even bother to ask basic questions to Nielsen: if he was indeed working for RAW, who was his case officer/handler? And when was he recruited?

A Covert Operation ::

I would only say that the Purulia arms drop was a covert CIA operation that went horribly wrong.
It had all the hallmarks of a black op – hugely circuitous, the actors spread over at least 14 countries,
the fast and easy transfer of massive sums of money through Swiss bank accounts, and behind-the-scenes shadowy activities of foreign intelligence and paramilitary men.

In other words, there was complete deniability.

My investigations, along with a corpus of classified and unclassified documents I had collected over the years because of my curiosity and spying attitude.

Also traced authentic database of  scores of interviews of knowledgeable Indian, American, Russian and Nordic intelligence officers, Interpol and CBI sleuths who investigated the case, suggest that the final end-users of the massive cache of small arms were the Kachin Independence Army.

Sufficient Link :::

I admit the link is tenuous but sufficient enough to establish why the CIA would have picked a buccaneer, a hired hand, instead of an asset to undertake this daring mission that was ultimately bungled.
If you refer to a banned  book by fucking congress a terror party of India, "The Night it Rained Guns",

you will find stark and stunning similarities between Nielsen’s Purulia operation and the manner in which a Russian arms dealer-cum-transporter Viktor Bout was used by the CIA to fly deadly weapons to some civil war-torn African countries in the 1990s.

It is my contention that successive Indian governments have buckled to pressure – from the Russians under Vladimir Putin,
from the Britain under Tony Blair, and perhaps even the Americans.

The NDA government of AB Vajpayee pardoned the five-member Latvian crew of the AN-26
(yes, they were innocent and took no part in the conspiracy), and the British MI6 agent Peter Bleach.

I am not surprised by the behaviour of the Danish authorities, including its judiciary.

All evidence – direct or indirect – point to one inescapable conclusion: the Americans nudged to protect Nielsen at all costs.

No Pressure on Denmark :::

Successive Indian governments did not put sufficient pressure on the Danes.
On the contrary, they ran an extra mile to be polite,
and promised sovereign guarantees that Nielsen won’t be mistreated in jail should Denmark decide to hand him over.
Sometimes coercive diplomacy does work.

A firm and determined approach – temporary snapping of diplomatic ties, for instance – would have had the right impact and produced the right results.

The Purulia arms drop and the investigation (which remains incomplete) that followed may not figure in the consciousness of a new generation of Indians.
Governments will continue to hedge and dodge. It is not that they want to shield a semi-competent national security bureaucracy.

The silence on Purulia will continue for another 20 years. Not because RAW was complicit in the arms drop – it was not – but because our intelligence agencies would not want to endanger the cosy liaisons they enjoy with their western counterparts.

Actually Purulia arms drop, an embarrassment to Indian intelligence agencies as well as for us also...because Indian intelligence agencies were tipped off that the consignment of arms and ammunition would be dropped in Purulia, West Bengal they failed to avert the incident.
Both the R&AW and Intelligence Bureau approached it as a routine case making it one of the most shameful episodes in the history of Indian intelligence...or its also a part of congress conspiracy against us as they did with 26/11 , samjhauta blast, malegaon blast...😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

The good news is that Modi Government going re open this case with fresh dossier...

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