Bluestar: MI5 officers visited Golden Temple as tourists

Even as the UK government has ordered a probe into reports — based on recently declassified official documents — that the Margaret Thatcher government had in 1984 advised India in executing Operation Bluestar through its Special Air Service (SAS), a book by Bahukutumbi Raman — one of the founders of the Research and Analysis Wing — first published in 2007, had stated that two officers of Britain’s Military Intelligence 5 (MI5) had visited the Golden Temple and advised Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to be patient.

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