India’s claim to Jammu and Kashmir is “technically strong” but given the chance the Kashmiri population will want to break free of Indian control, says a new book quoting a declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) document.
An “intelligence memorandum” prepared by the CIA on “The Kashmir Dispute” on September 20, 1965, dwelt at length on the main row plaguing India-Pakistan relations in the wake of their war that year.
Explaining how Jammu and Kashmir merged with India following a tribal invasion backed by Pakistan, the eight-page “secret” document says: “India’s claim to the state has a technically strong legal foundation in the maharaja’s act of accession.