Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oahu. They are the I-14, which carried two aircraft while submerged; and the I-201, one of the fastest attack subs of WWII. The submarines are widely believed to have been intentionally sunk by the U.S. Navy at the end of the war to keep the technology from the Soviet Union.

The announcement of the discovery was made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Undersea Research Lab at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and by National Geographic Channel (NGC), which documented and partly funded the search mission for the upcoming special Hunt for the Samurai Subs, premiering Tuesday, November 17, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT during the network’s second annual Expedition Week.

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Monday, September 22, 2008 (Day 1)

I arrived in New Delhi on American Airlines Flight 292 from Chicago, completing the first leg of my journey to the recently discovered crashsite in Arunachal Pradesh, where my uncle and his seven crewmates were killed on January 25, 1944. I am the only member of my family to visit India in 65 years, my MIA (missing in action) uncle, US Army Air Force 1st Lt. Irwin Zaetz, having been the first one. A car from the hotel picked me up at the airport and took me to my hotel, in the downtown Karol Bagh district, which is a busy commercial area. (Later on, I learned that this area of New Delhi had been victimized by murderous jehadi terror bombings only a few days before.) Although the area is kind of poor, the room in the hotel is very nice – the Presidential Suite. On the way to the hotel, I saw a number of cows in the street – there was even a bull. I could have reached through the window of the car and touched its horns, it was so close. I also saw a rat cross the street ahead of us.

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A minister of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet betrayed India’s “war objectives” to the Central Intelligence Agency in December 1971, causing an abrupt end to the Bangladesh war under vicious US arm twisting.

This is the highlight of the book CIA’s Eye on South Asia by journalist Anuj Dhar. Published by Delhi-based Manas Publications, which is facing government’s ire for coming out with a book on the R&AW, the book compiles declassified CIA records on India and her neighbours. It specifically spotlights what arguably has been India’s biggest spy scandal.

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