A. S. Dulat

Amarjit Singh Dulat (born 1940) was a spymaster and a former special director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau and former Secretary of Research and Analysis Wing from 1999 to 2000.

After retirement, he was appointed as an advisor on Jammu and Kashmir in the Prime Minister's Office and served there from January 2000 to May 2004.

[2] He served in Kashmir as Joint Director in the Intelligence Bureau from 1988 to 1990 which was arguably the most troublesome time in the valley.

[3] In 2018, he co-authored The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace with Asad Durrani, former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence.

[8] In Dulat's book, A Life In The Shadows: A Memoir, published in 2022, a full chapter was focused on Doval strategy of "muscular power" in Kashmir.

Dulat (left) with his successor, former chief of R&AW, Vikram Sood .
The Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari releasing the book Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years authored by Dulat in New Delhi on 21 July 2015. Also visible are Farooq Abdullah and Najeeb Jung .