Anticipating an attack on India by China after the 1962 war, the then John F Kennedy administration was planning a $ 500 million military aid package for India including help to increase arms production and creation of six mountain divisions, a new book has said. The package, which was shelved due to Kennedy’s assassination, also included an aid of $ 120 million to be equally split between the United States and Britain.
But India under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted an aid package of $ 1.3 billion. Following intense negotiations between New Delhi and Washington, the two countries agreed on a military aid package of $ 500 million, former CIA official Bruce Riedel writes in his latest book.
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