The 3rd Agency (Third Agency) is biggest mystery of the intelligence world, probably the most secretive intelligence organization to have existed in the history of espionage. The hypothetical organization is considered a blend of RAW and IB; India's external and internal intelligence services respectively.
The agency is believed to be solely operating against Khalistanis in extra-judicial manner in extra-territorial jurisdiction mainly in Punjab, expanding to all corners of the world where Khalistanis have ever left the slightest footprint.
Khalistani activists have been talking about the Third Agency since the 1980's but outside Punjab and Khalistani circles people hardly know about any such agency. Some journalists working in the mainstream media and unwelcoming of facts outside their checklist domains, like to term it as right wing fantasy (they blame Hindu right wing) despite the fact that Sikh and Muslim right wing are the biggest negative publicizers of this agency.
Strangely, though removed currently, the American and other western media have talked about the Third Agency extensively in their coverage of the Khalistan conflict in the 80's and 90's. Some of them have been obtained by the Profilian.
The Govt of India however does never officially accept the existence of any such organization. In India, just like any other country, a government or public body is established through a legal act or executive order. There is absolutely no act to regulate the establishment of the so called Third Agency.
Nevertheless, that doesn't necessarily negate the existence of this agency. In India, both RAW and IB lacks official recognition, often subjected to attempts by subversive elements trying to ban it through legal process. Even in other countries, there are unrecognized intelligence organisations. For instance Caesarea is a secret organization within Mossad that specializes in extra-judicial and extra-territorial assassinations through its Kidon unit.
Profilian has discussed about the organization to several security officials, and realized that no government official, serving or retired, will ever speak on this issue. But summing up all that Profilian knows, a picture can be drawn on the Third Agency.
Handling Khalistan terrorism has never been an easy and unhesitating for the successive Indian governments, unlike the case of Islamic terrorism or communist terrorism. Khalistan terrorism has been conducted by the radicals from the Sikh community which has a strange relationship with Hindus, the majority population of India.
While most of the Hindus consider Sikhs to be another branch of Hinduism, the Sikhs don't reciprocate the same emotion and a huge portion (some say majority) of Sikhs want to cut ties with Hinduism and run a constant campaign for dissociation. While most of the Hindus have a wronged sense of guilt and burden towards Sikhs swayed by the constant Sikh propaganda.
Such emotional turbulence among the Hindu officers was seen during the Operation Blue Star when Hindu soldiers were forced to bow down to the Granth, the Sikhs' religious scripture before entering the Golden Gurdwara (earlier a temple with Hindu deities) to neutralize the Sikh terrorists holed up inside. The soldiers had fought halfhearted.
The following up operations like Operation Woodrose and sustained campaign by Indian security agencies to uproot the Khalistani terrorism required guilt-free and highly motivated operatives.
Therefore as claimed by Sikh extremist and terrorist organizations since 1980's that former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi created a hybrid force that can hunt down the Khalistanis who had become Frankenstein for Gandhi.
Suitable matches from both RAW and IB were selected for this agency. Due to the structure that the agency follows, it is highly ideological and considered as follower of hardcore Hindutva ideology.
The agency is said to have conducted the most lethal operations against Khalistanis and their associates in the foreign soil including America. While admirers and critics engage themselves in speculations, bodies of Khalistanis keep falling and this agency which none can credibly say- exists or not, keeps taking the blame.
