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.
In post-independent India, the Intelligence Bureau acted as both an internal and external intelligence agency. However, due to lapses on ....
