Press Agents
Around the time of the Second Afghan War, Lord Salisbury asked Russian diplomat Nikolai Ignatyev if rumours were true that St Petersburg had agents in India. He was amazed to hear Ignatyev admit to ‘thousands’ — though Ignatyev went on to say that these agents were the Russophobes in Indian government and media, whose hysteria was destabilising India all by itself.
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