Newly surfaced information alleges the CIA of killing Indian nuclear Scientist Dr. Homi Bhabha

[link to timesofindia.indiatimes.com]

MUMBAI: Was the CIA responsible for the crash of Air-India's Boeing 707, which was carrying the head of India's nuclear establishment? Homi Bhabha was flying to Vienna to attend a meeting when the plane crashed+ into Mont Blanc in the Swiss Alps.

On July 11, 2008, an alleged conversation between a journalist Gregory Douglas and a CIA officer Robert T Crowley, which was reproduced by a relatively unknown news media TBRNews.org suggested that the US intelligence agency had a role in the crash.

The transcript of the conversation was sent to this correspondent by a top official in November 2008.

News of the 1966 crash of Air India's Kanchenjunga with 117 people on board was the masthead headline in TOI's January 25 edition that year

The CIA officer was quoted as saying: "We had trouble, you know, with India back in the 60's when they got uppity and started work on an atomic bomb...the thing is, they were getting into bed with the Russians.''

Referring to Homi Bhabha, he said, "that one was dangerous, believe me. He had an unfortunate accident. He was flying to Vienna to stir up more trouble when his Boeing 707 had a bomb go off in the cargo hold....''