When discussions remained so focussed on the London-based PR firm, it would definitely make everyone tense about arrangements for post-ceasefire peacekeeping troops in Ukraine.
Ukraine that could defend itself against aggressive war from Russia would not be able to hold its peace without help from Paris or London.
The above implied political blackmail, and it had been pulled against Antara in January 2015. Chetla had called her, said people in Kolkata always wanted to know if she drove a BMW or a Saab. Antara assumed automobile makers were being discussed.
As it turned out, the reference was to a former OSS spy called David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, who, had been appointed chief of a unit called Special Activities/Bruce or SA/B.
This SA/B was the secret intelligence branch of the OSS, and by 2015, Kolkata, amazed at Chetla's success in the US, was making detailed inquiries, it would accordingly play its games there.
The biggest upper-hand for Kolkata was if Bruce of SA/B had been captured at Normandy on D-Day (June 1944). Bruce didn't acknowledge it but surely the Germans and Kolkata knew better.
For the London-based PR firm, Bruce was important for other reasons as well. Bruce was the son-in-law of Andrew Mellon, the Treasury Secretary, and SA/B was the reason why developmental economics was so popular in Kolkata.
March 31, 2025.
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