April 6, 1971. The telex machine in Dhaka didn't just send a message. It sent a suicide note.

"Moral Bankruptcy." "Genocide."

These are words you do not send to the President of the United States. But Archer Blood, the Consul General, didn't care about his career. He cared about the slaughter happening outside his window. He typed the truth, hit send, and waited for the axe to fall.

Diplomatic Suicide. Global War.

While Washington shredded the warning and the Oval Office dismissed the bloodshed as a "nuisance," the Indian intelligence machine began to move in the dark.

In this episode, we trace the signal from that forgotten telex machine to the brink of nuclear war. We step inside the "War Room" with R.N. Kao, the spymaster who discovered that his nation was surrounded by a secret axis of powers. We walk the halls of the Kremlin with the "Kashmiri Mafia" who brokered a checkmate against China without firing a shot.

From the rain-slicked streets of Dhaka where diplomats turned into dissidents, to the terrifying silence of the Bay of Bengal where a lone Soviet Admiral surfaced his submarines to stare down the US Navy, witness the history they tried to redact.

Discover how Golda Meir betrayed the Western alliance to smuggle mortars to Indira Gandhi , and listen as we play back the actual, declassified sentiments of the White House—where a President and his National Security Advisor wished for "mass famine" and hurled misogynistic slurs at the leader of the world’s largest democracy.

They thought they could bury the telegram. They thought silence was a strategy. They were wrong.

Listen now to the story of the document that shamed a superpower and the war that redrew the map of the world.

Historical Note & Disclaimer:This audio drama is a work of fiction inspired by real historical events surrounding the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

While scenes inside the Indian PMO and the Kremlin are dramatisations based on historical outcomes, the depictions of the Nixon White House are drawn from the declassified and published Historical Documents Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976 published on https://history.state.gov/.

• The quotes attributed to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger—specifically the wish for a "mass famine" in India and the derogatory references to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi—are verbatim historical records, not creative inventions.

• We do not claim that every word in this drama is the absolute truth, but the contempt you hear from the Oval Office is exactly as it appears in the official State Department archives.

Sometimes, the truth is darker than anything a podcaster could invent.

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