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{{Use Indian English|date=March | {{Use Indian English|date=March 2022}} | ||
{{Infobox military unit | {{Infobox military unit | ||
| unit_name = Directorate of Military Intelligence Corps | | unit_name = Directorate of Military Intelligence Corps | ||
| image = Directorate of Military Intelligence Corps Logo. | | image = Directorate of Military Intelligence Corps Logo (India).svg | ||
| image_size = | | image_size = | ||
| caption = | | caption = | ||
| dates = 1941 – present | | dates = 1941 – present | ||
| country = {{ | | country = {{flag|India}} | ||
| allegiance = | | allegiance = | ||
| branch = {{army|india}} | | branch = {{army|india}} | ||
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| motto = | | motto = Always alert | ||
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| identification_symbol = | | identification_symbol = [[File:Directorate of Military Intelligence Corps Insignia (India).svg|100px]] | ||
| identification_symbol_label = | | identification_symbol_label = Formation sign | ||
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The primary mission of military intelligence is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence support to tactical, operational and strategic-level needs of the army. | The primary mission of military intelligence is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence support to tactical, operational and strategic-level needs of the army. | ||
It | It also conducts counter-intelligence activities to detect, identify and neutralize adversarial intelligence threats inside Indian Army.<ref name="Description">{{cite news |last1=Unnithan |first1=Sandeep |title=How Indian Army's Military Intelligence Directorate works |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/20120206-bangladesh-indian-army-military-intelligence-directorate-sheikh-hasina-757152-2012-01-28 |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=India Today |publisher=Living Media India Limited |date=6 February 2022}}</ref> | ||
==Organisation== | ==Organisation== | ||
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The agency was set up in 1941 as part of the erstwhile [[British Indian Army]] to generate field intelligence for the army, in the Second World War. After Independence, M.I. was initially tasked with generating only tactical or field intelligence in all [[Borders of India|countries bordering India]]. | The agency was set up in 1941 as part of the erstwhile [[British Indian Army]] to generate field intelligence for the army, in the Second World War. After Independence, M.I. was initially tasked with generating only tactical or field intelligence in all [[Borders of India|countries bordering India]]. | ||
In 1978, the directorate was involved in the [[Samba spy scandal]], wherein it was later found that the directorate had falsely implicated three Indian Army officers as Pakistani spies.<ref name="Scandal">{{cite news |title=The Samba Case, the Indian army's darkest chapter |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/may/29samba.htm |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=Reddif}}</ref><ref name="Samba spy">{{cite news |last1=Chawla |first1=Prabhu |title=Samba spy case takes dramatic turn as officers challenge dismissal order in HC |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/investigation/story/19800430-samba-spy-case-takes-dramatic-turn-as-officers-challenge-dismissal-order-in-hc-806631-2014-02-01 |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=India Today |agency=Living Media India Limited |date=1 February | In 1978, the directorate was involved in the [[Samba spy scandal]], wherein it was later found that the directorate had falsely implicated three Indian Army officers as Pakistani spies.<ref name="Scandal">{{cite news |title=The Samba Case, the Indian army's darkest chapter |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/may/29samba.htm |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=Reddif}}</ref><ref name="Samba spy">{{cite news |last1=Chawla |first1=Prabhu |title=Samba spy case takes dramatic turn as officers challenge dismissal order in HC |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/investigation/story/19800430-samba-spy-case-takes-dramatic-turn-as-officers-challenge-dismissal-order-in-hc-806631-2014-02-01 |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=India Today |agency=Living Media India Limited |date=1 February 2022}}</ref> | ||
==Operations== | ==Operations== | ||
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M.I. was also active in [[Myanmar]], which nurtured insurgent groups. In 1998, a M.I. operative impersonated a [[Khalistan movement|Khalistani]] terrorist and infiltrated a gun-running Myanmar insurgent group. He led them into a death trap in the [[Andaman islands]].<ref name="Leech">{{cite news |last1=Goel |first1=Kritika |title=Operation Leech: What Was This Military Op & What Went Down? |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/india/indian-army-operation-leech-what-was-military-operation-what-went-down |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=The Quint |agency=Quintillion Media Pvt Ltd}}</ref> [[Operation Leech]], as the operation was called, marked the start of the outreach of the Indian Army to the [[Burma|Burmese junta]] in the 1990s. It also aimed to offset the expanding footprint of China on the eastern border of India.<ref name=india-today/><ref name="Leech"/> | M.I. was also active in [[Myanmar]], which nurtured insurgent groups. In 1998, a M.I. operative impersonated a [[Khalistan movement|Khalistani]] terrorist and infiltrated a gun-running Myanmar insurgent group. He led them into a death trap in the [[Andaman islands]].<ref name="Leech">{{cite news |last1=Goel |first1=Kritika |title=Operation Leech: What Was This Military Op & What Went Down? |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/india/indian-army-operation-leech-what-was-military-operation-what-went-down |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=The Quint |agency=Quintillion Media Pvt Ltd}}</ref> [[Operation Leech]], as the operation was called, marked the start of the outreach of the Indian Army to the [[Burma|Burmese junta]] in the 1990s. It also aimed to offset the expanding footprint of China on the eastern border of India.<ref name=india-today/><ref name="Leech"/> | ||
M.I. has carried out operations in [[Bangladesh]] too because of safe sanctuaries provided to insurgent groups like the [[United Liberation Front of Assam]] (U.L.F.A.), the [[United National Liberation Front|United National Liberation Front of Manipur]] (U.N.L.F.) and the [[Kamtapur Liberation Organisation]].<ref name="Secret war">{{cite news |last1=Swami |first1=Praveen |title=India's secret war in Bangladesh |url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-secret-war-in-bangladesh/article2747538.ece |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=The Hindu |agency=The Hindu Group |date=26 December | M.I. has carried out operations in [[Bangladesh]] too because of safe sanctuaries provided to insurgent groups like the [[United Liberation Front of Assam]] (U.L.F.A.), the [[United National Liberation Front|United National Liberation Front of Manipur]] (U.N.L.F.) and the [[Kamtapur Liberation Organisation]].<ref name="Secret war">{{cite news |last1=Swami |first1=Praveen |title=India's secret war in Bangladesh |url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-secret-war-in-bangladesh/article2747538.ece |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=The Hindu |agency=The Hindu Group |date=26 December 2022}}</ref> Within months of the [[Sheikh Hasina|Hasina]] government taking over in 2009, the entire leadership of the U.L.F.A. and the U.N.L.F. was handed over to Indian authorities.<ref name=india-today/> | ||
In January 2012, the M.I. warned [[Sheikh Hasina]], the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh|Prime Minister]] of Bangladesh, about a coup brewing in the [[Bangladesh Army|Bangladeshi Army]] which was ultimately foiled.<ref name=india-today/> | In January 2012, the M.I. warned [[Sheikh Hasina]], the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh|Prime Minister]] of Bangladesh, about a coup brewing in the [[Bangladesh Army|Bangladeshi Army]] which was ultimately foiled.<ref name=india-today/> | ||
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Since 2005, M.I. is also involved in hundreds of cross-border counter terrorism strikes across LOC, into Pakistan. Most notable being [[2016 Indian Line of Control strike|2016 Surgical strike]].<ref name="LoC 2016">{{cite news |last1=Negi |first1=Manjeet Singh |title=Surgical strikes in PoK: How Indian para commandos killed 50 terrorists, hit 7 camps |url=http://indiatoday.in/india/story/uri-avenged-inside-story-indian-army-surgical-strikes-pok-343995-2016-09-29 |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=India Today |agency=Living Media India Limited}}</ref> | Since 2005, M.I. is also involved in hundreds of cross-border counter terrorism strikes across LOC, into Pakistan. Most notable being [[2016 Indian Line of Control strike|2016 Surgical strike]].<ref name="LoC 2016">{{cite news |last1=Negi |first1=Manjeet Singh |title=Surgical strikes in PoK: How Indian para commandos killed 50 terrorists, hit 7 camps |url=http://indiatoday.in/india/story/uri-avenged-inside-story-indian-army-surgical-strikes-pok-343995-2016-09-29 |access-date=23 June 2020 |work=India Today |agency=Living Media India Limited}}</ref> | ||
==Military Intelligence Training School & Depot== | ==Military Intelligence Training School & Depot== | ||
[[File:MINTSD.jpg|thumb|Military Intelligence Training School & Depot, Pune]] | |||
Military Intelligence Training School & Depot (MINTSD) at Pune trains intelligence professionals of Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Civil Intelligence Agencies and Friendly Foreign Countries. It started modestly in [[Karachi]] on 20 January 1941. MINTSD moved through [[Murree]] in July 1947 and after partition to [[Mhow]] in November 1947 and finally to its present location in Pune in September 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punekarnews.in/75-glorious-years-of-military-intelligence-training-school-and-depot-mintsd/|title=75 glorious years of Military Intelligence Training School And Depot (MINTSD)|date=2016-01-20|access-date=2021-05-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.philamart.com/Listing/Details/3071363/Military-Intelligence-Training-School-And-DepotIndian-Army-Postal-Cover|title=Military Intelligence Training School And Depot-Indian Army Postal Cover|date=2016-01-20|access-date=2021-05-29}}</ref> | Military Intelligence Training School & Depot (MINTSD) at Pune trains intelligence professionals of Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Civil Intelligence Agencies and Friendly Foreign Countries. It started modestly in [[Karachi]] on 20 January 1941. MINTSD moved through [[Murree]] in July 1947 and after partition to [[Mhow]] in November 1947 and finally to its present location in Pune in September 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punekarnews.in/75-glorious-years-of-military-intelligence-training-school-and-depot-mintsd/|title=75 glorious years of Military Intelligence Training School And Depot (MINTSD)|date=2016-01-20|access-date=2021-05-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.philamart.com/Listing/Details/3071363/Military-Intelligence-Training-School-And-DepotIndian-Army-Postal-Cover|title=Military Intelligence Training School And Depot-Indian Army Postal Cover|date=2016-01-20|access-date=2021-05-29}}</ref> | ||