ABSTRACT
Intelligence, mainly the Research and Analysis Wing, has been involved in the foreign policy process in a number of ways, to the consternation of Indian diplomats. Military intelligence was a somewhat disjoint composite of the intelligence branches of the three military services, the Directorate of Military Intelligence, the Directorate of Naval Intelligence and the Directorate of Air Intelligence. Research and Intelligence Section's work was very limited, consisting only of the preparation of monthly intelligence summaries. The information contained in the summaries was drawn from reports of heads of mission and from the library's resources. In the eighties, the Policy Planning and Review Division seems to have given up the great ideal of policy planning and has instead become an earnest research body. The Centre for Policy Research, in Spring 1982, began a review of Indian foreign policy which involved a number of semi-independent task forces.
