Internal Intelligence Agencies

Intelligence agencies are the biggest attack on humanity. If one were to read Dhar’s book “Open Secrets” on the working of Intelligence Bureau (IB), one of the internal intelligence agencies in India, one would learn that intelligence officers do what a common man can’t even imagine. And they don’t only work in “national interest”.

The internal intelligence agencies more often work in the interest of politicians. Dhar himself helped Indira Gandhi as well as sanghis in elections. He worked to bring down governments through governors. And they help target political opponents: Morar Ji Desai would target Indira Gandhi through IB, and Indira Gandhi would target Maneka Gandhi through IB. Now with technology, it’s not just political opponents. Anybody with contrarian view can be targeted.

External Intelligence Agencies

External intelligence agencies are no different. They won’t accept, but they indeed propagate rebellion into “terrorism”. B. Raman’s book lists many such instances. They carry out covert assassin operations and conduct insidious intelligence operations. They are basically persona non–grata anywhere and everywhere. And they also do petty corruption like smuggling foreign goods without paying duty.

Earlier, the external intelligence agencies used to rely upon human intelligence, but, now with insidious technology, they can read each single mind remotely through signal intelligence. They carry out “concentration camp” like experiments on people and don’t stop even when exposed. They re-conduct the same experiments with impunity under a changed name. I fail to understand why should any country have external intelligence unless it has expansionist tendencies.

Intelligence Agencies May Disappear

What is the importance of states now except to propagate obnoxious nationalism? What purpose do they really serve? Why should a single person like Obama or Modi become so powerful? Why should the states have preferential access to information through intelligence agencies?

I am an #AntiNationalHumanist and have also written an essay on the same. I don’t challenge the utility of states but do question the nationalism associated with them in the present paradigm where states exist as nation-states, reflected in their membership of the United Nations. Intelligence agencies, who normally comprise the officers from the military, are the most important tools of spreading and safeguarding nationalism.

As elaborated above, the intelligence agencies don’t follow any law. They have been granted immunity from law to subserve the interest of a few ruling elites, who depend upon nationalism for maintaining their power status quo. Internally, these elites use intelligence officers to target opponents and win elections. Externally, they use them to become “vishwagurus“. There can be no doubt that hidden behind nationalism was Hitler’s personal agenda of becoming the most powerful man in the world.

Earlier, when there were empires, the emperors didn’t have to resort to hypocrisy to become all powerful. The unsophisticated society allowed them unrestrained access to resources without doubting their privileges. However, presently in democracies and republics (or even communist states), the rulers are answerable to the public; so, they have to first illusion the public through nationalism and then appropriate unrestrained resources in the name of nationalism, as fake trustees of the public.

Intelligence agencies and their officers are the shields of these rulers. They perform the most important function of protecting the illusion of nationalism from being exposed. Both domestically and globally, they attack any rebellion of whatever magnitude at its roots without ever coming out in the open. Of course, they just can’t operate without attacking humanism. At the most fundamental level, nationalism is the enemy of humanism, and the duo can’t exist together. Undoubtedly, the intelligence officers and the intelligence agencies are the biggest threat to humanity. Sooner or later, both have to disappear, so it’s better if they quickly disappear for good — and those journalists who double up as intelligence officers may disappear for good immediately.