Netaji deputy, Nehru aide was Soviet spy: British documents
10 years, 5 months ago

Netaji deputy, Nehru aide was Soviet spy: British documents

India TV News  

London: A deputy of freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an ‘old friend' of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and a former Indian ambassador, ACN Nambiar, has been described as a Soviet spy. "On the outbreak of the Second World War Nambiar was expelled from Germany but later allowed to return as Subhash Chandra Bose's deputy in Berlin. The declassified files also include copies of letters from Nambiar to Bose recovered from the German submarine U-boat 234 after it surrendered during the Second World War. The documents released on Friday include the latest batch of files on Britain's MI5 activities as well as seven files on British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm and his activities as a member of the Communist Party and the wartime stories of British fascist sympathisers and 'Fifth Columnists' exposed by an MI5 agent posing as a representative of the Gestapo.

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Netaji deputy, Nehru aide was Soviet spy: British documents
10 years, 5 months ago

Netaji deputy, Nehru aide was Soviet spy: British documents

India TV News  

London: A deputy of freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an “old friend” of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and a former Indian ambassador, A C N Nambiar, has been described as a Soviet spy. “On the outbreak of the Second World War Nambiar was expelled from Germany but later allowed to return as Subhash Chandra Bose's deputy in Berlin. The declassified …

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