Editing Research and Analysis Wing (section)

===Additional child agencies===
Slowly other child agencies such as the Radio Research Center and the [[Electronics and Technical Services]] (ETS) were added to R&AW in the 1970s and 1990s. In 1971, Kao had persuaded the Government to set up the [[Aviation Research Centre]] (ARC). The ARC's main purpose was [[aerial reconnaissance]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/Intelligence-agencies-run-into-babu-bind/2013/04/28/article1564632.ece1|title=Intelligence agencies run into babu bind|last=Yadav|first=Yatish|date=28 April 2013|work=The Sunday Standard|access-date=21 May 2013|location=New Delhi|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704132333/http://newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/Intelligence-agencies-run-into-babu-bind/2013/04/28/article1564632.ece1|archive-date=4 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Kenneth J. Conboy|author2=James Morrison|title=The CIA's Secret War in Tibet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hsDtAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=University Press of Kansas|isbn=978-0-7006-1159-1|pages=188–195}}</ref> It replaced the [[Indian Air Force]]'s old reconnaissance aircraft, and by the mid-1970s, R&AW, through the ARC, had high quality aerial pictures of the installations along the [[Line of Actual Control|Chinese]] and [[India–Pakistan border|Pakistani borders]].

In the 1970s, the [[Special Frontier Force]] (SFF) moved under R&AW from [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Intelligence Bureau]] (IB) and was tasked to [[Mukti Bahini|train Bengali rebels]].<ref name="ijic"/>{{rp|262}} In 1977, R&AW's operations and staff were dramatically cut under the [[premiership of Morarji Desai]], which hurt the organisation's capabilities<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 =  Shaffer| first1 = Ryan| title = Significant Distrust and Drastic Cuts: The Indian Government's Uneasy Relationship with Intelligence | doi = 10.1080/08850607.2017.1263529 | journal = International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence | volume = 30 | issue = 3 | pages = 522–531  | year = 2017 | s2cid = 157714194}}</ref> with the shutting of entire sections of R&AW, like its Information Division.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 =  Shaffer| first1 = Ryan| title = Indian intelligence revealed: an examination of operations, failures and transformations | doi = 10.1080/02684527.2017.1327135 | journal = Intelligence and National Security | volume = 32 | issue = 4| pages =  598–610| year = 2017 | s2cid = 157485301}}</ref> These cuts were reduced following Gandhi's return. In 2004, [[National Technical Research Organisation]] (NTRO) was setup by Government of India as a super-feeder agency for [[technical intelligence]].

While the exact nature of the operations conducted by NTRO is classified, it is believed that it deals with research on [[Image analysis|imagery]] and communications using various platforms.<ref name="FAsummary"/><ref name="Federation of American Scientists"/>
[[File:Research&analysisWING.jpg|thumb|Research and Analysis Wing headquarters at [[Lodi Road]], New Delhi]]