You May Seen Name RAW Agency, Salaman Khan Working in "Ek Tha Tiger".
But You Know What is This.
Lets Know Something About RAW.
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is India's external intelligence agency. It was formed in September 1968.
Recruitment
Initially, R&AW relied primarily on trained intelligence officers who were recruited directly. These belonged to the external wing of the Intelligence Bureau.
In times of great expansion, many candidates were taken from the military, police and other services.
Later R&AW began directly recruiting graduates from universities. Today R&AW has its own service cadre, the Research and Analysis Service (RAS) to absorb talent.
Recruitment is mostly by deputation from the Armed Forces or Civil Service Officers.
The Civil and Defense Service Officers permanently resign their cadre and join the Research and Analysis Service (RAS).
However, according to recent reports, officers can return to their parent cadre after serving a specific period in the agency if they wish to.
Most of the Directors have been officers from the IPS.
R&AW also employs a number of linguists and other experts in various fields.
Basic Training
Basic training commences with 'pep talks' to boost the morale of the new recruit.
This is a ten-day phase in which the inductee is familiarized with the real world of intelligence and espionage, as opposed to the spies of fiction.
Common usages, technical jargon and classification of information are taught.
Case studies of other agencies like CIA, KGB, Chinese Secret Agency and ISI are presented for study.
The inductee is also taught that intelligence organisations do not identify who is friend and who is foe, the country's foreign policy does. Basic classroom training to R&AW officers are imparted at R&AW's Training Institute in Gurgaon.
Advanced Training
The recruit is now attached to a Field Intelligence Bureau (FIB). His training here lasts for six months to a year.
He is given firsthand experience of what it was to be out in the figurative cold, conducting clandestine operations.
During night exercises under realistic conditions, he is taught infiltration and exfiltration. He is instructed to avoid capture and, if caught, how to face interrogation. He learns the art of reconnoiter, making contacts, and, the numerous skills of operating an intelligence mission.
At the end of the field training, the new recruit is brought back to the school for final polishing.
Before his deployment in the field, he is given exhaustive training in the art of self-defense, an introduction to martial arts and the use of technical espionage devices.
He is also drilled in various administrative disciplines so that he could take his place in the foreign missions without arousing suspicion.
He is now ready to operate under the cover of an Embassy to gather information, set up his own network of informers, moles or operatives as the task may require.
Field training is provided in the Special Frontier Force Headquarters at Chakrata.
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