S. Gopal, in his biography of Nehru, writes, ‘Mathai exercised vast and irregular power… Nehru was informed that Mathai could not account for his great wealth and without doubt had received money from C.I.A. as well as businessmen in India. It can indeed be safely assumed that from 1946 to 1959, the C.I.A. had access to every paper passing through Nehru’s Secretariat.’
