Field training is provided in the Indian Military Academy Headquarters at Dehradun. He/she is now ready to operate under the cover of an Embassy to gather information, set up his own network of informers, moles or operatives as the task may require. He/she is also drilled in various administrative disciplines so that he could take his place in the foreign missions without arousing suspicion. Before his deployment in the field, he is given exhaustive training in the art of self-defence mainly Krav Maga, and the use of technical espionage devices. At the end of the field training, the new recruit is brought back to the school for final polishing. He/she learns the art of reconnoitre, making contacts, and, the numerous skills of operating an intelligence mission. He/she is instructed to avoid capture and if caught, how to face interrogation. During night exercises under realistic conditions, he/she is taught infiltration and exfiltration. He/she is given firsthand experience of what it was to be out in the figurative cold, conducting clandestine operations. His/her training here lasts for 1–2 years. Basic classroom training in tactics and language are imparted to R&AW officers at the residential Training and Language Institute in Gurgaon.A multi-disciplinary school of economic intelligence is also being set up in Mumbai to train intelligence officers in investigating economic crimes like money laundering for terror purposes etc.Īfter completing 'Basic Training’ the recruit is now attached to a Field Intelligence Bureau (FIB). The inductee is also taught that intelligence organisations do not identify who is friend and who is foe, the country’s foreign policy does. Case studies of other agencies like CIA, KGB, ISI, Mossad and Secret Intelligence Service are presented for study. The recruit is made to specialise in a foreign language and introduced to Geo strategic analysis.
Financial and economic analysis, Space Technology, Information Security, Energy Security and Scientific knowledge is imbibed to the trainees. Common usages, tradecraft techniques and classification of information are taught. This is a ten-day phase in which the inductee is familiarised with the real world of intelligence and espionage, as opposed to the spies of fiction. Basic training commences with ‘pep talks’ to boost the morale of the new recruit.
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