The Right Intelligence

The survival of a society or a country lies not on the strength of its people who can defend it but on the will of the people who can defend it.
This will is manifested in strong intelligence and therefore we have CIA, KGB, RAW, ISI etc.
What drives the intelligence operatives to be so ruthless and efficient? What is it that prevents the intelligence to be compromised to rivals? Why it’s not that easy for the KGB to buy a CIA man?
Make no mistake; no intelligence agency hires a person who is super intelligent. Rather it hires just like any other organization does – people with the right skill set that a particular job requires. Of course unquestioned devotion and loyalty weighs heavily among all attributes.
In India most of the people don’t believe in RAW and its capabilities. Even its full expanded name is quite uninteresting. Many don’t even know there is something called RAW but have heard ISI since birth.
The fact that RAW has got a much lower profile in India and abroad gives it a winning edge over its counterpart (rival?) ISI which along with its activities and operations are highly publicized all over the world.
Ex-President Musharraf was not completely lying when he said “Your RAW does exactly what our ISI does”. But he stopped short of saying “But only our ISI ends up getting exposed every time”.
We may not even know (and may never know) but RAW has already been delivering a very high quality of service to our Nation.
Lets not hesitate to say that our Nation has just the Right Intelligence in the form of RAW.