Click to play videoNew Delhi: India's Intelligence Bureau has been ranked among the top 5 intelligence outfits in the world. According to a survey conducted by Strategic Forecasting, or STRATFOR, India’s IB exhibits efficiency and a high level of sophistication.
Intelligence Bureau—which is India's main agency for domestic security and counter-terrorism has also received flak for exhibiting brutality, says STRATFOR. The agency says the IB must make more efforts to counter Kashmiri militants.
The STRATFOR report says IB's strength lies in its ability to conduct electronic surveillance with microphones. This comes as a relief to the Indian intelligence community, embarrassed by claims of its ineptitude by a key aide of former British PM Tony Blair.
Alastair Campbell had claimed Indian intelligence bugged Blair's Hotel room when he visited Delhi in 2001, but the British security service easily discovered them.
Strategic Forecasting, Inc, more commonly known as Stratfor, is a private intelligence agency founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas. Stratfor's client list is confidential, but the company's publicity list includes "Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies".
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