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Kamala Harris’ pro-Russian uncle, who long advised India’s defence establishment, bragged about India deceiving the CIA on India’s nuclear weapons tests. Because the US shared satellite intelligence with India, they could calculate when to do their nuclear weapons work, and when not to. Her uncle has a PhD in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and long worked as an advisor to India’s Ministry of Defence. Did he do the calculations himself? Around this time, Kamala’s mother was working at a US National (Nuclear) Lab: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which was a good location and cover for spying.
Declassification of the image tweeted out by Trump is a good reminder of the dangers of intelligence sharing: “Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows” November 18, 2022 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has officially declassified an image first tweeted by President Trump in 2019. “it was photographed using one of America’s most prized intelligence assets: a classified spacecraft called USA 224 that is widely believed to be a multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.”
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-image-from-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
1998 is the same year that the Government of India and the Government of Russia started making missiles together in the BrahMos Joint Venture: “Brahmos” is ready to supply missiles to the Russian army: Co-director of “Brahmos” Maksichev: the company is ready to supply missiles to the Russian army” 08/29/2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220831150746/https://ria.ru/20220829/bramos-1812793653.html
In a May 15, 1998 article, Kamala Harris’ uncle, a nuclear researcher from India, G. Balachandran stated, “It’s not a failure of the CIA. It’s a matter of their intelligence being good, our deception being better. An action that further assisted the Indians in their deception campaign was the “sharing” of intelligence and overhead imagery by the United States. In an effort to thwart a nuclear test in December 1995 and January 1996, the United States had shared this information with the Indians to convey the message that “We know what you are doing and do not approve.“ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000935281.pdf “R.R. Subramanian, a nuclear physicist with New Delhi’s independent Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, said hiding preparations for the tests was merely a matter of choosing the hours when the satellites were looking elsewhere to move the necessary people and chemicals…. the orbit of such satellites is easily predictable, and U.S. officials now believe India’s nuclear test operators were able to halt suspicious activity during the periods when the spy satellites were passing overhead.” https://irp.fas.org/news/1998/05/may16_cia.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_India IDSA is funded by India’s Ministry of Defence and advises them. So, it’s not really “independent”.
Kamala’s Uncle Balachandran, to whom she’s always been close, visited her in DC shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. The Government of India and the Government of Russia are Joint Venture Partners in the production of BrahMos missiles, which may be used in Ukraine. India should be sanctioned under CAATSA, but is not: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/kamala-harris-uncle-explains-importance-of-us-presidency-to-india-for-by-passing-nuclear-related-other-sanctions-india-buys-most-weapons-from-russia-previously-from-soviets/
Kamala’s Uncle Balachandran continued to write, do research, and advise the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), which is funded by India’s Ministry of Defence, while she was a sitting US Senator on the Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees. He co-authored a chapter in a book published in 2021, after she was VP, by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/biden-vp-kamala-harris-uncle-co-authored-2021-book-chapter-on-us-china-relations-for-institute-funded-by-indias-ministry-of-defence-concludes-that-the-future-is-not-bright/
The Government of India and the Government of Russia are Joint Venture Partners in the production of BrahMos missiles, which may be used in Ukraine: “Brahmos” is ready to supply missiles to the Russian army: Co-director of “Brahmos” Maksichev: the company is ready to supply missiles to the Russian army“ 08/29/2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220831150746/https://ria.ru/20220829/bramos-1812793653.html
Kamala Harris’ Uncle Gopalan Balachandran bragging about India deceiving the CIA: “India readily admitted that it knew how to deceive the United States. It referenced information the United States had shown it in the past and also downloaded tools freely available from the Internet. In an Associated Press article of 15 May 1998, Indian nuclear researcher G. Balachandran stated, “It’s not a failure of the CLA. It’s a matter of their intelligence being good, our deception being better, An action that further assisted the Indians in their deception campaign was the “sharing” of intelligence and overhead imagery by the United States. In an effort to thwart a nuclear test in December 1995 and January 1996, the United States had shared this information with the Indians to convey the message that “We know what you are doing and do not approve. By demonstrating the US capability to track India’s actions and…
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This is the 2013 bio for Kamala’s uncle, G. Balachandran, at the IDSA.
His niece, Kamala, sat in the US Senate on the Intelligence and Homeland Security Committees from 2017 until she became Biden’s Vice President. G. Balachandran appears to have left most of these posts when the Congress Party lost power, with the exception of IDSA: “Dr. G. Balachandran is a Consulting Fellow at the IDSA. He has a PhD in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin. His specialization includes issues related to economics and technology. He is associated with the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi. He is a Consultant both to the Americas Division of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and to the Confederation of Indian Industry. Dr. Balachandran has conducted studies and published widely on the India-United States Next Steps in Strategic Partnership as well as on India-US Civil Nuclear Co-operation Agreement. He has also carried out studies on Pakistan’s Defence Expenditure, on US Export Control Procedures and policy. He is currently engaged in a study on Pakistan’s Energy Security.“. http://web.archive.org/web/20130530025413/https://idsa.in/profile/gbalachandran
Article where her uncle is quoted:
“Are We Our Own Worst Enemy? Safeguarding Information Operations
By Stephen W. Magnan (Captain in the US Air Force.)
“Most articles about the US information superhighway have concentrated on the need for better physical security, while at the same time identifying many of its cyberrelated vulnerabilities.”
“The reality is that the vulnerability of the Department of Defense-and of the nation–to offensive information warfare attack is largely a self-created problem. Program by program, economic sector by economic sector, we have based critical functions on inadequately protected telecomputing services. In the aggregate, we have created a target-rich environment, and US industry has sold globally much of the generic technology that can be used to strike these targets.” Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Informaton Warfare-Defense (IW-D), November 1996
Most articles about the US information superhighway have concentrated on the need for better physical security, while ar the same time identifying many of its cyber-related vulnerabilities. Few address what possibly is the most vulnerable element–the human operators-and the inability of those operators from the policy level down to practice good operations security (OPSEC).
In a 4 June 1998 Guardian Online article by Duncan Campbell entitled “Hiding from the Spies in the Skies,” Campbell states, “The Internet has made tracking and evading spy satellites child’s play. Data and programs downloaded from the Net enable anyone to track the sarellites and work out when the spies in the sky are overhead.” Campbell also provide instructions on how to visually acquire satellites with the naked eye and even lists six Internet Uniform Resource Locator addresses where one can find programs and information on the location of the “spies in the skies.” He refers to several Internet sites in his article that offer the capabilities to track the locations, routes, and times certain satellites will pass over specific locations.
India’s Nuclear Tests
In May 1998, India conducted a series of underground nuclear tests that, according to the press, the Clinton administration learned about when India publicly announced the tests. This prompted widespread speculation about how the US multi-billion-dollar surveillance and reconnaissance assets could have missed the critical clues that revealed the impending tests. India readily admitted that it knew how to deceive the United States. It referenced information the United States had shown it in the past and also downloaded tools freely available from the Internet.
In an Associated Press article of 15 May 1998, Indian nuclear researcher G. Balachandran stated, “It’s not a failure of the CIA. It’s a matter of their intelligence being good, our deception being better.”
An action that further assisted the Indians in their deception campaign was the “sharing” of intelligence and overhead imagery by the United States. In an effort to thwart a nuclear test in December 1995 and January 1996, the United States had shared this information with the Indians to convey the message that “We know what you are doing and do not approve.” By demonstrating the US capability to track India’s actions and the fact that the United States was tracking their actions directly informed the indians that they needed to develop a superb OPSEC and deception campaign.
The commission chat was formed to evaluate why the Intelligence Community (IC) failed to predict the Indian nuclear tests concluded that the IC needs a good overhaul. It directed little attention, however, to India’s successful deception, and, ultimately, to an information operation (IO) perception management campaign. Instead, it recommended reviews of policies, changes in leadership and management philosophies, and organizational structures.
The commission’s recommendations address, in a generic manner, the
symptoms of the problems, not the causes:
The organization needs to be scrubbed, and I am talking about the IC organization, not necessarily the CIA, to improve the clarity of the structure, to fix responsibilities,
to resource the staff with appropriate tools, and to inform the organization once that review has taken place.
No mention was made of improving education or training, increasing manpower, or dedicating more assets to those who need it most—the workers. Therefore, the imagery. analysts will continue to work under a new and improved management and supervisory staff, who will tell or show the analysts how to do a better job with the available resources.
OPSEC requires the same clements as the imagery analysts do: improved education and training and increased billet authorizations. OPSEC requires as much senior-level support as do the other elements.
“The commission that was formed to evaluate why the Intelligence Community failed to predict the Indian nuclear tests concluded that the IC needs a good
overhaul.”
Furthermore, all elements of IO can no longer be common-sense based–they are not integrally linked to each other….”https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000935281.pdf
Above: Kamala Harris center and Uncle Gopalan Balachandran behind.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040203191933/http://crea.berkeley.edu/shyamala-profile.shtml
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