Recently declassified JFK assassination documents revealed CIA maintained secret bases in New Delhi and Kolkata, India.
By Aniket Chakraborty
Mar 21, 2025
The CIA's New York division oversaw multiple covert bases across Asia, including sites in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, South Korea, and Japan.
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Approximately 2,200 previously classified documents were released by the US National Archives following an order by former President Donald Trump.
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Some CIA facilities, known as "black sites," have faced legal scrutiny over allegations of holding detainees without formal charges or trials.
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The released documents are part of a larger collection of over six million pages related to the Kennedy assassination.
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In 2013, declassified information revealed India had allowed the US to use Charbatia airbase in Odisha for refueling CIA spy planes.
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After gaining independence, India sought American assistance in developing its intelligence framework, with collaboration beginning in 1949.
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India's Intelligence Bureau director T.G. Sanjeevi worked with the CIA primarily to monitor Communist China.
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The CIA provided support to Tibetan resistance fighters following China's annexation of Tibet in 1950.
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Following the 1962 India-China border conflict, the CIA established a secret military base in Odisha for reconnaissance flights over Chinese territory.