Bhola Nath Mullik was an Indian civil servant,
spymaster
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and the second director of the
Intelligence Bureau of India (IB).
He served as the director of IB from July 15, 1950, to October 9, 1964.
He was known to be a hardworking official, with close contacts with the then
Union government
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It was reported that Mullik had been a close associate of
Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat—
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, the erstwhile Indian prime minister
and assisted Nehru to keep a watch on the movements of the relatives of
Subhash Chandra Bose in the aftermath of Bose's disappearance in 1945.
It was on his advice, that Nehru ordered for the establishment of
Special Frontier Force (SFF) (also known as Establishment 22) for defending against the Chinese army in the
Sino-Indian War of 1962.
The
Government of India
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awarded him
Padma Bhushan, the third-highest Indian civilian award, in 1964.
Publications
* B. N. Mullik (1971). ''My Years with Nehru: The Chinese Betrayal.'' Volume 1. Allied Publishers.
* B. N. Mullik (1971). ''My Years with Nehru: Kashmir''. Volume 2. Allied Publishers.
* B. N. Mullik (1971). ''My Years with Nehru, 1948-1964''. Volume 3. Allied Publishers.
See also
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Death of Subhas Chandra Bose
Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose died on 18 August 1945 from third-degree burns sustained after the bomber in which he was being transported as a guest of Lieutenant General Tsunamasa Shidei of the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army c ...
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R. N. Kao
Rameshwar Nath Kao (R.N. Kao) (10 May 1918 – 20 January 2002) was an Indian spymaster and the first chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) from its founding in 1968 to 1977. Kao was one of India ...
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