India and Pakistan came close to a possible nuclear exchange at the height of the 1999 Kargil war, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and Indian broadcast journalist Burkha Dutt claimed on Thursday.
The two South Asian rivals, according to two separate accounts, were ready to risk the use of nuclear weapons. In his account former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Bruce Riedel claimed in an interview with The Independent that the CIA had tipped off the intelligence to then president Bill Clinton.
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