Rajiv Gandhi Intel Shared By Israel Went Missing After His Killing

The expert said at that point, India was critical, the Soviet Union wasn't disintegrated and India was a backchannel between the US and the Soviets.

"In recent history, in the last three-four decades, the most critical information Israel shared with us was certain transcripts relating to possible threat to late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's life.

Mr Verma, according to the programme's host and Usanas founder Abhinav Pandya, has been an "expert on global geopolitics with specialisation in security matters" for decades, having also "worked closely with the government on various critical matters of security and foreign policy".

"In India, we reconstructed the material based on the correspondence with other files. We sought another copy of the transcript, but Israel never provided it.

Mr Verma said that such incidents have happened whenever global equations are changing or the existing order is challenged.

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