New intelligence technology feeding surge in political espionage

Early this summer, India's intelligence services were facing the most serious internal security threats since 26/11: new urban terror cells were known to be planning strikes; Maoist insurgents had expanded their reach and lethality to unprecedented levels; Pakistan's descent into chaos had threatened renewed violence in Kashmir. Few people in India's domestic intelligence service, the Intelligence Bureau, cared. Instead, a large part of the IB's resources were committed to providing the government raw information and assessments on its increasingly bleak political prospects.

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