Bhola Nath Mullik was an Indian civil servant, spymaster and the second director of the Intelligence Bureau of India (IB).

[1][2] He served as the director of IB from July 15, 1950, to October 9, 1964.

[3] He was known to be a hardworking official, with close contacts with the then Union government.

[4] It was reported that Mullik had been a close associate of Jawaharlal Nehru, the erstwhile Indian prime minister.

[5] It was on his advice, that Nehru ordered for the establishment of Special Frontier Force (SFF) (also known as Establishment 22) for defending against the Chinese army in the Sino-Indian War of 1962.