India's NTRO spy agency spooked by internal spies

Alarm bells are ringing for India’s youngest spy agency — the National Technical Research Organsation (NTRO) — as many vital “targets” in Pakistan and China under its electronic surveillance have started “disappearing” from its radar.

Thanks to the so-called “whistleblowers” from within the NTRO, and some former officers using the “right to information” weapon, the agency has suffered major setbacks recently.

In the aftermath of the Kargil war, the NTRO was established in 2004 as the top technical intelligence-gathering agency. It is on the pattern of America’s super espionage agency — the National Security Agency. Said to be more powerful than the CIA, the National Security Agency is a cryptology intelligence agency of the US Department of Defence. It is responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting American communications and information systems.