The Kaoboys & R&AW: Down Memory Lane
B. Ramanjoined the Indian Police Service in 1961 and served in Madhya Pradesh as a police officer from November 1962 to July 1967. He joined the External Intelligence Division of the Intelligence Bureau of the government of India in July 1967 and moved to the Research & Analysis Wing (R &AW;) of the Cabinet Secretariat, when it was created in September 1968 as an external intelligence agency of the government of India. He served as the head of the Counter-Terrorism Division of the R&AW; from 1988 to 1994, and has been a member of numerous intelligence groups. He testified on terrorism before the US House Armed Services Committee in 2002, and before a subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee in 2003. He is the author of four books-Intelligence: Past, Present & Future, A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally, The Kaoboys of R&AW;: Down Memory LaneandTerrorism: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow-all published by Lancer Publishers of New Delhi.