![]() In a statement to the Lok Sabha after taking over as Home Minister, P. Flow of preventive intelligence and follow-up action on even the limited available intelligence were unsatisfactory. The 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai brought out gaps in the functioning of the MAC. ![]() Neither the Vajpayee government nor the Manmohan Singh government revisited the recommendations of the Saxena Task Force in the light of the 9/11 lessons. gave up the CTC after 9/11, the Indian model of the MAC, patterned after the U.S. It was placed under the Director, National Intelligence, who is part of the President's personal staff. The Bush administration, therefore, set up a National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in 2004 as an independent institution not under the control of any existing agency. brought out serious gaps in the functioning of the CTC of the CIA. Therefore, no legal powers were recommended for the MAC. It looked upon the MAC as a clandestine wing of the IB, itself a clandestine intelligence collection organisation. ![]() The Vajpayee government set up the CTC, under an executive order, as part of the IB but for reasons not clear to me, it named it the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) and not the CTC. Since in India, the IB had over-all responsibility for counter-terrorism and liaison with the State police, it suggested that the CTC should be part of the IB and should work under its Director (DIB). Inter alia, the setting-up of a CTC on the U.S. In India, the Vajpayee government set up a Task Force in May 2000 - I was one of the members - for revamping the country's intelligence apparatus. The CTC had officers taken on deputation from different agencies. The CIA had a Counter-Terrorism Centre (CTC) for tasks of co-ordination and follow-up action on the intelligence collected by various agencies. The responsibility for co-ordinating preventive action was, therefore, vested in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which handles external intelligence. Before 9/11 forced a rethink, the United States considered terrorist threats from abroad more serious than home-based threats. ![]()
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