Many global interests would have been jeopardised as ISRO proposed to provide
Story behind the ISRO scandal
Many global interests would have been jeopardised as ISRO proposed to provide
services for satellite launches at half the US rate. So a section of the IB, working in tandem with the Kerala police, came up with the sensational cock-and-bull story of a spy ring involving ISRO scientists, an inspector general of police and two Maldivian women. Finally, it was left to the CBI to expose the entire CIA-sponsored plot. With access to the victims and to official documents, Nair could perhaps have done better justice to the subject. When truth is stranger than fiction, it's best to let the truth speak for itself.