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India still keeps 1962 China war report under the wraps
Sunday, 2nd May 2010
Why does the Indian government refuse to declassify a report on the Sino-Indian war even now, nearly 50 years later?
Its most recent manifestation was in a written reply that defence minister AK Antony gave Parliament to explain why a Top Secret report of a review commission could not be declassified nearly 50 years later.
Antony claimed the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report, which was submitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru government in May 1963 and was immediately classified, could not be made public even today because an internal study by the Indian Army had established that its contents “are not only extremely sensitive but are of current operational value.”
Publication : DNA
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