Classified 1962 India-China war report posted online, blocked ******************************************** indiatoday.intoday.in/story/henderson-brooks-report-on-indo-china-war-put-online/1/349957.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A classified Indian army report that analyses the causes of Indias military defeat in the 1962 border war with China was blocked hours after it was posted on the internet. A large section of the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report was recently posted by Australian journalist and author Neville Maxwell on his website nevillemaxwell/TopSecretdocuments.pdf . Also Read: 1962 Indo-China war veteran Brigadier Lakshman Singh shares his experience Maxwell, the New Delhi correspondent for The Times, published his controversial 1970 book Indias China War based on this report. Attempts to access his website appeared futile. The blockage set off Twitter speculation of the hidden hand of Indian government censors. The report is still highly classified and the Indian government has resisted making it public. Based on an internal study by the Indian Army, the contents (of the report) are not only extremely sensitive but are of current operational value, Defence Minister A.K. Antony told Lok Sabha in a written reply on April 2010. Only two type-written copies of the report, prepared by two Indian army generals, Henderson Brooks and Prem Bhagat in 1963, are believed to exist. One is the office of the defence secretary, the other in the Indian Armys Military Operations directorate, both located on the first floor of the South Block in New Delhi. Maxwells revelation admits to the possibility of a third copy of the report. Also Read: Army holds up declassification of the Henderson-Brooks Bhagat report Maxwell, 87, wrote in his website of the frustration in not seeing the report being declassified after over half a century. The reasons for the long-term withholding of the report must be political, indeed probably partisan, perhaps even familial, he wrote on his website. He recounted his attempts to give the report to five Indian newspaper editors since 1992. All of them refused saying the leak of the report would create a furore and that there would be little or no productive analysis of its contents. As I see it now I have no option but, rather than leave the dilemma to my heirs, to put the Report on the internet myself. So here is the text (there are two lacunae, accidental in the copying process) Maxwell noted on his website. Read Neville Maxwells explanation on author-historian Claude Arpis blog Read more at: indiatoday.intoday.in/story/henderson-brooks-report-on-indo-china-war-put-online/1/349957.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:44:14 +0000
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