CIA Reading Room cia-rdp06t00412r000606740001-7: INDIA AND THE SIKH CHALLENGE
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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 J Directorate of Intelligence Secret India and the Sikh Challenge A Research Paper 25X1 Secret NESA 87-100/5 March 1987 Copy 2 6 5 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 25X1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 Directorate of Secret Intelligence India and the Sikh Challenge Directorate of Operations. A Research Paper This paper was prepared by Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, with a contribution by~Office of Leadership Analysis. It was coor mated with the Comments and queries are welcome and may be addressed to the Chief, South Asia Division, NESA, Secret NESA 87-10015 March /987 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11 :CIA-RDP06T00412R000606740001-7 India and the Sikh Challenge Summary India is slowing the growth of an incipient Sikh insurgency in Punjab. Information available Indian Government officials estimate that security forces have captured or as 4f 10 February /987 killed one-third of the extremist lea