IB is India’s premier internal intelligence agency to gather intelligence from within India and also execute counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence tasks.
The agency was created in 1887 by the British Secretary of State as a “Central Special Branch” in London, to monitor Russian troop deployments in Afghanistan to prevent a Russian invasion of British India through the North-Western region. The agency was later renamed as ‘Intelligence Bureau’ in 1920. After independence in 1947, the agency was placed under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Following the recommendations of Himmat Singh Ji Committee (North and North East Committee), the Intelligence Bureau was entrusted the ....
