Bhola Nath Mullik

Bhola Nath Mullik
Born
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Occupation(s)Civil servant, spymaster
Known forhis service as the director of Intelligence Bureau
Awards

Bhola Nath Mullik was an Indian civil servant, spymaster and the second director of the Intelligence Bureau of India (IB).[1][2] He served as the director of IB from July 15, 1950, to October 9, 1964.[3] He was known to be a hardworking official, with close contacts with the then Union government.[4] It was reported that Mullik had been a close associate of Jawaharlal Nehru, the erstwhile Indian prime minister.[5] It was on his advice, that Nehru ordered for the establishment of Special Frontier Force (SFF) (also known as Establishment 22) for defending against the Chinese army in the Sino-Indian War of 1962.[6] The Government of India awarded him Padma Bhushan, the third-highest Indian civilian award, in 1964.[7]

  1. ^ Anne F. Thurston; Gyalo Thondup (16 April 2015). The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet. Ebury Publishing. pp. 141–. ISBN 978-1-4481-7596-3.
  2. ^ "A spy and a gentleman". Kashmir Sentinel. 3 January 2003. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Paul Maddrell; Christopher Moran; Mark Stout, Ioanna Iordanou (1 February 2018). Spy Chiefs: Volume 2: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Georgetown University Press. pp. 268–. ISBN 978-1-62616-523-6.
  5. ^ Sinha, S. K. (20 October 2012). "The guilty men of '62". The Asian Age. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  6. ^ Sanyal, Amitava (14 November 2009). "The curious case of establishment 22". Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Padma Awards". Padma Awards. Government of India. 17 May 2018. Archived from the original on 15 October 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.