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The book ‘JFK Forgotton Crisis: Tibet, The CIA and the Sino-Indian War’ is written by Bruce Reidel, former officer of CIA. It states that the 1962 China-India War and how Nehru wrote to Kennedy to provide fighter aircraft against aggressive China to India. This book also throws light on Nehru and his diplomacy when the country was facing challenging time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that those who interested in foreign policy should read the book ‘JFK Forgotten Crisis’, which throws light on the meetings of Jawaharlal Nehru with US President John F. Kennedy. This comment is seen as a response to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s claim in Parliament that the government sent the Foreign Minister to the US to “three or four times” to invite PM Modi at the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump. PM Modi said, when the country was facing many challenges, what was going on in the name of foreign policy, it is being exposed through this book.
This comment came a day after Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Congress has infiltrated the Indian land as the Make in India initiative has failed. The book ‘JFK Forgotton Crisis: Tibet, The CIA and the Sino-Indian War’ is written by Bruce Reidel, former officer of CIA. It states that the 1962 China-India War and how Nehru wrote to Kennedy to provide fighter aircraft against aggressive China to India. This book also throws light on Nehru and his diplomacy when the country was facing challenging time.
The book also throws light on the state visit of John Kennedy and first woman Jacqueline Kennedy to India in March 1962. The embassy had rented a villa for Kennedy to stay, but after his arrival, Nehru insisted that he stayed in a guest suite at the Prime Minister’s residence. It was the suite that was often used by Edwina Mountbatten.
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