We have to set to rest any further controversy over why Antara and her husband moved to Delhi in early 2008. Both of them had joined the same media company. They moved because the media company had no other reason to exist than to recruit Antara and her husband when the time came.
As it happened, Antara and her husband arrived less than a year before Barack Obama became US President.
Certain crisis-laden questions were immediately flung at Antara, as soon as she joined, whose importance to Wool's career she had not understood. "Look at these Indians, they have an elaborate intelligence apparatus but where was their own intelligence profile, their own work?"
It implied that Indians had collected information on the Nazi Holocaust and were merely guarding it, they didn't undertake fresh assignments, didn't branch off into new projects. Some of the bosses in that media office were raising those concerns, on behalf of Kolkata's women.
"Where would Wool sit once he had taken over? Was there a suitable front for him? Wouldn't everyone laugh at him, this guy managed the Bureau back in the US, his entire life, and now he was a nobody?"
There was nothing extraordinary about the above scenario. Since 2008, most analysts have understood the Indian instability episodes in these terms. Except that Joe Biden made a terrible mistake, interpreting the presence of Bengali women in that media office, some of them newly-married with the hint of bridal finery, as being about 'contact-corroboration'.
As discussed earlier, it was Biden who had introduced 'contact-corroboration', something to be controlled or prevented, into the global lexicon.
Had Biden attended schools like Asansol AG Church, he would have known that someone fleeting past with hints of bridal finery indicated those personalities inside Washington DC who were destined for a higher intelligence profile, to be mentored separately, given assignments that were not open to others. Some occasional prominence for them, and everyone else would know that the higher levels in DC were churning.
In the absence of it, the likes of Chetla would have to run around, wondering why Antara or other Indians were getting any support from DC officials at all. Shouldn't the rest of DC have known their place by now?
Private Military Company Redut, or PMC Redut, also known as Redut-Antiterror or Centre R, was formed in 2008 in Russia. As its name indicated, it was a private militia. It was involved in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022, and also in subsequent battles.
You might assume that Redut formed in 2008 as a response to the Delhi media company's problems with Indians and their intelligence ops, what it had made clear to Antara.
Anecdotes and news reports about Redut's activities indicated that it was higher than Prigozhin and his Wagner Group. It was described as an 'Expeditionary Volunteer Assault Corps', reminding one of the United States Marine Corps, also an expeditionary force.
In recent years, Antara had been repeatedly asked, "Why did the ACJ Field Trip of December 2005 (of which Antara was a part) divide into five groups and deploy separately? Didn't it remind one of the Marines at Bocage (Normandy, WWII), even the more recent Iraq invasion and the Battle of Fallujah?"
Redut's origins were from a group called PMSC Antiterror-Orel, founded in 2003. Antara was at home that year, preparing for her UPSC exams. Through the later summer months (July-August), her mother was extremely unwell, with high fever, basic antipyretic medication was proving of no use.
"I have never had fever in my life, what was happening, such high fever for me?" Antara's mother kept asking.
Antara had not known her narrative, else she would have connected it to Florian Klein, the gunman involved in a school shooting at Coburg, Bavaria, Germany, in July 2003. Klein had perished in the attack, but news reports had mentioned that he was a fan of the Swedish black metal band 'Dark Funeral'.
If Wool had figured out that Bavaria and the Swedish music scene controlled the metal information, then he'd alert both the Kremlin and the White House accordingly.
April 14, 2025.
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