Shocking details have emerged after a former CIA officer, Richard Barlow, revealed that a joint covert operation by India and Israel was planned to bomb Pakistan’s Kahuta nuclear facility in the early 1980s. This was to halt Islamabad’s atomic ambition. According to him, if the planned mission went well, it could have “solved a lot of problems.” Why did India decline the mission? What happened then? Barlow explains..

‘Shame Indira didn’t approve’

Calling the disapproval of the operation by the then Indian government a “shame,” a former CIA member, Richard Barlow, confirmed that he had heard of the reported plan within intelligence circles but was not directly involved. He said he was out of government service during that period. Barlow was speaking with the news agency, ANI.

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