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Ajit Doval
Ajit Kumar Doval KC PPM PM (born 20 January 1945)
is an Indian bureaucrat and spymaster, who is currently Ajit Kumar Doval
KC PPM PM
serving as the National Security Advisor since 2014. A
former Indian Police Service officer of the Kerala cadre,
he had previously served as Director of the Intelligence
Bureau in 2004–05, after heading its operations wing
for a decade.

As a spy and an intelligence officer, he worked as an

undercover spy of the IB for a year in Pakistan, after
which he served for six years as an officer in the Indian
High Commission in Islamabad. Doval was involved in
Operation Black Thunder in 1988, the extrication of 46
Indian nationals in Iraq, Operation Hot Pursuit in 2015,
the sabotage of the PFI and many other Indian
intelligence and military operations. He founded the
Vivekananda International Foundation in 2009, which
he headed until his appointment as NSA. 5th National Security Advisor of India
Incumbent
Assumed office
Early life and education 30 May 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Doval was born in 1945 in Ghiri Banelsyun village in
Pauri Garhwal in the erstwhile United Provinces, now in Preceded by Shivshankar Menon
Uttarakhand.[2] Doval's father, Major G. N. Doval, was Director of the Intelligence Bureau
an officer in the Indian Army. [3][4] In office
31 July 2004 – 31 January 2005
He received his early education at the Ajmer Military
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
School in Ajmer, Rajasthan.[5] He graduated with a
master's degree in economics from the Agra University Preceded by K. P. Singh
in 1967.[4] Succeeded by E. S. L. Narasimhan
Personal details
Born 20 January 1945
Police and intelligence career Ghiri Banelsyun, Pauri
Garhwal, United Provinces,
Doval joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1968 in
British India (now in
the Kerala cadre as the Assistant Superintendent of
Uttarakhand, India)
Police (ASP) of Kottayam district.[6][7][8][9]
Spouse Aruni Doval ​(m. 1972)​
Children 2 (including Shaurya Doval)

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Doval worked in Thalassery, Kerala, for a few months in Residence(s) New Delhi, India
1972, before joining the central service.[10] He has the Alma mater Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar
experience of being involved in the termination of all 15 University (MA)
hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft from 1971 to National Defence College
1999.[11] In the headquarters, he headed IB's operations (M.Phil.)
wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of
Occupation Spymaster and Bureaucrat
the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), as well as of the Joint
Awards Kirti Chakra
Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI).[12]
Police Medal
In 1988 during Operation Black Thunder, he infiltrated President's Police Medal
in Golden temple posing as an ISI agent, did espionage Nickname James Bond of India [1]
on Khalistani separatists, Doval gathered information
about their weapons and made maps of their positions,
he became an important member in their group gave wrong advices to them to sabotaged, which
helped during Operation Bluestar.[13][14][15]

He played a role in intelligence for Sikkim's merger with India.[16][17] He was trained under M. K.
Narayanan, the third National Security Advisor of India for a brief period in counterterrorism
operations.[18] He was part of the team which was sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan for negotiations to
release passengers of hijacked aeroplane IC-814.[16][19][20]

He was later appointed on the post of director of the Intelligence Bureau.[20]

Post-retirement (2005–2014)
Doval retired in January 2005 as Director, Intelligence Bureau.[21] In December 2009, he became the
founding Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a public policy think tank set
up by the Vivekananda Kendra.[22][23] Doval has remained actively involved in the discourse on
national security in India.[24][25] Besides writing editorial pieces for several leading newspapers and
journals, he has delivered lectures on India's security challenges and foreign policy objectives at
several renowned government and non-governmental institutions, security think-tanks in India and
abroad.[26][27]

In 2009 and 2012 he co-wrote two reports on "Indian Black Money Abroad in Secret Banks and Tax
Havens",[28] with others, leading in the field as a part of the task force constituted by Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP).[29]

In 2012, IB eyed on him due to then ruling party Congress's suspicions on Doval and his think tank
VIF with the doubts that he and VIF were the brains behind Ramdev and Anna Hazare led anti-
corruption movement, which generated anger against government.[30]

In recent years, he has delivered guest lectures on strategic issues at IISS, London, Capitol Hill,
Washington DC, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne, National Defence College, New
Delhi and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.[31] Doval has also
spoken internationally at global events, citing the ever-increasing need of co-operation between the
major established and emerging powers of the world.[32]
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National Security Advisor (2014–present)

On 30 May 2014, Doval was appointed as India's fifth
National Security Advisor.[33] In June 2014, Doval facilitated
the return of 46 Indian nurses who were trapped in a hospital
in Tikrit, Iraq, following the capture of Mosul by ISIL. Doval,
flew to Iraq on 25 June 2014 to understand the position on
the ground and make high-level contacts in the Iraqi
government.[34] Although the exact circumstances of their
release are unclear, on 5 July 2014, ISIL militants handed the
nurses to Kurdish authorities at Erbil city and an Air India NSA Doval meets with United States
plane specially-arranged by the Indian government brought Secretary of state John Kerry in
them back home to Kochi.[35] Washington DC.

Along with Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag, Doval

planned a cross-border military operation against National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K)
separatists operating out of Myanmar. Indian officials claimed that the mission was a success and 20–
38 separatist belonging to Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) were killed in the
operation.[36][37][38][39] However, the Myanmar government denied the strikes. According to
Myanmar officials, the Indian operation against NSCN-K took place entirely on the Indian side of the
border.[40][41]

He is widely credited for the doctrinal shift in Indian national

security policy in relation to Pakistan.[42] It was speculated that
the September 2016 Indian strikes in Pakistan-controlled
Kashmir were his brainchild.[43][44][45][46] Doval is widely
credited along with then Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and
Indian Ambassador to China Vijay Keshav Gokhale, for
resolving Doklam Standoff through diplomatic channels and
negotiations.[47][48][49]
Indian PM Modi with the NSA Doval,
the Army Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag
In October 2018, he was appointed as the Chairman of the
and the Air Force Chief Arup Raha at
Strategic Policy Group (SPG), which is the first tier of a three- Pathankot Airbase.
tier structure at the National Security Council and forms the
nucleus of its decision-making apparatus.[50]

After Pakistan based terrorist attacked convoy of CRPF by car bomb in Pulwama which resulted in the
deaths of 40 CRPF personnel,the Indian Air Force conducted an airstrike on alleged terrorist bases in
Pakistan.[51] Doval was one of the seven persons who knew about India's classified 2019 Balakot
airstrike, including Indian Navy, Army, Airforce chiefs and prime minister Narendra Modi. Following
the airstrike and retaliatory 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes and subsequent capture of Indian
pilot Abhinandan Varthaman by Pakistani military, Ajit Doval held talks with US Secretary of State
and National Security Advisor to secure the release of the Indian pilot.[52]

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On 3 June 2019, he was reappointed as NSA for 5 years and granted the personal rank of a Cabinet
Minister.[53] Doval is the first NSA to hold such a rank. He is widely considered to be one of Modi's
most powerful and trusted advisors, with major influence over India's national security and foreign
affairs.[54]

He was also an instrumental figure in revocation of the special

status of Jammu and Kashmir.[55]

On 26 February 2020, Ajit Doval walked the streets of riot-hit

northeast Delhi to assess the situation and reassure the local
residents.[56]

On 15 May 2020, the military forces of Myanmar handed over a NSA Doval, along with Army, Navy,
and Air Force Chief meeting PM Modi
group of 22 militant leaders, active in Assam and other
northeast states, to the Indian government. This was made
possible through negotiations headed by Doval.[57][58]

On 15 September 2020, Doval walked out of a virtual SCO meeting after Pakistan projected a fictitious
map omitting parts of India.[59]

Awards and recognitions

He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University (formerly
Agra University) in December 2017; Kumaun University in May 2018;[60][61] and Amity University,
in November 2018.[62][63]
Doval was the youngest police officer to receive the Police Medal for meritorious service.[16] He
was given the award after six years in the police force.[16]
Doval was later awarded the President's Police Medal.[64]
In 1988, Doval was granted one of the highest gallantry awards, the Kirti Chakra, becoming the
first police officer to receive a medal previously given only as a military honour.[65]

In media
Doval appeared on Epic TV's show Adrishya, in which his success against Khalistani separatist
during Operation Black Thunder was featured.[15]
In film Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) his cinematic character was played by Paresh Rawal.[66]

See also
Ravindra Kaushik – spy of India. India portal
Bahirji Naik – spy of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

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Further reading
Doval, Ajit (21 November 2009). "Terrorist threat and response capability – India a year after" (htt
p://www.deccanherald.com/content/37211/terrorist-threat-response-capability-india.html). Deccan
Herald. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20091124061106/http://www.deccanherald.com/con
tent/37211/terrorist-threat-response-capability-india.html) from the original on 24 November 2009.
Doval, Ajit (12 February 2012). "Working in real time" (https://web.archive.org/web/201405280056
14/http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/Edits/Working-in-real-time/Article1-810451.a
spx). Hindustan Times. Archived from the original (http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-
on/Edits/Working-in-real-time/Article1-810451.aspx) on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 5 September
2021.

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