Do You Know Your Sonia? By Dr. Subramanian Swamy

>> Ms. Sonia Gandhi's background as is publicized by her and her Congress >Party today, is based on three lies to hide the ugly reality of her life.> First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. The Italian Ambassador in New >Delhi revealed this in a letter dated April 27, 1983 to the Union Home >Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia is Sonia's real >name in her birth certificate. Sonia is the name given to her subsequently >by her father, Stefano Maino [now deceased] following his return from >Russia where he had been a prisoner of war. Stefano had joined the Nazi >army as a volunteer. Sonia is a Russian not Italian name. While spending >two years in a Russian jail, Sonia's father had become quite pro-Soviet; >especially after the liberating US army in Italy had confiscated all >fascists' properties including his.> Second, she was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data >submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in her >birth certificate. She perhaps would like to hide the place of her birth >because of her father's connection with the Nazis and Mussolini's Fascists, >and her family's continuing connections with the Nazi-Fascists underground >that is still surviving since 1945 in Italy. Luciana is where Nazi-Fascist >network is headquartered, and is on the Italian-Swiss border. There can be >no other explanation for this otherwise meaningless lie.> Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. She has falsely >claimed in her affidavit filed as a contesting candidate before the Rae >Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, that she >qualified and got a diploma inEnglish from the prestigious University of >Cambridge, UK.> The truth is that Ms. Gandhi has never studied in any college anywhere. >She did go to a Catholic nun run seminary-school called Maria Ausiliatrice >in Giaveno [15 kms from adopted home town of Orbassabo]. Poverty those days >forced young Italian girls to go to such missionaries and then in their >teens go to UK to get jobs as cleaning maids, waitresses and au pair. The >Mainos were poor those days. Her father was a mason and mother a share >cropper.> Sonia thus went to the town of Cambridge and first learnt some English >in a teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since 1970 been wound >up]. That is all her "education" is--learnt enough English language to get >domestic help jobs. But in Indian society education is highly valued. Thus, >to fool the Indian public, Sonia Gandhi willfully fibbed about her >qualifications in Parliamentary records [which is a Breach of Ethics Rules] >and in a sworn affidavit [which is criminal offence under IPC, severe >enough to disqualify her from being MP]. In popular parlance, this is >called 420 or 10 "numberi" [not to be confused with 10 Janpath].> These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to hide, >or has a hidden agenda for India. We need to find out more about her.> III> Ms. Sonia Gandhi upon learning enough English became a waitress in >Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge town. She first met Rajiv when he came to >the restaurant in 1965. Rajiv was a student in the University, but could >not cope with the academic rigour for long. So he had to depart in 1966 for >London where he was briefly in Imperial College of Engineering as a >student. Sonia too moved to London, and according my information, got a job >with an outfit run by Salman Thassir, a debonair Pakistani based in Lahore, >and who has a export-import company headquartered in Dubai but who spends >most of his time in London. Thisfits the profile of an ISI functionary.> Obviously, Sonia made enough money in this job to loan Rajiv funds in >London, who was obviously living beyond his allowances [Indira herself >expressed anguish to me on this score in late 1965 when she invited me to a >private tea at the Guest House in Brandeis University]. Rajiv's letters to >Sanjay, who was also in London then, clearly indicate that he was in >financial debt to Sonia because he requested Sanjay who obviously had more >access to money, to pay off the debt.> However, Rajiv was not the only friend Sonia was seeing those days. >Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning as >other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao's friendship continued even after >Sonia's marriage to Rajiv. Scindia in 1982 was involved in a traffic >accident near IIT, Delhi main gate while driving a car at 2 AM. Sonia was >the only other passenger. Both were badly injured. A student of IIT who was >burning midnight oil was out for a cup of coffee. He picked them up from >the car, hailed an auto rickshaw and sent an injured Sonia to Mrs Indira >Gandhi's house since she insisted in not going to a hospital. Madhavrao had >broken a leg and in too much pain to make any demand. He was taken to >hospital by the Delhi Police who had arrived a little after Sonia had left >the scene. In later years, Madhavrao had become privately critical of >Sonia, and told some close friends about his apprehensions about Sonia. It >is a pity that>he died in mysterious circumstances in an aircrash.> The circumstance under which Rajiv hastily married Sonia in a Church in >Orbassano is controversial but that was his personal matter that has no >public significance. But what is of public significance is that Indira >Gandhi who was initially dead set against the marriage for reasons known to >her, relented to hold a registry marriage with Hindu ceremonial trappings >in New Delhi only after the pro-Soviet T.N. Kaul prevailed upon her to >accept the marriage in "the larger interest of cementing Indo-Soviet >Friendship". Kaul would not have intervened unless the Soviet Union had >asked him to.> IV> Such has been the extensive patronage from the beginning extended to >Sonia Gandhi from the Soviets. When a Prime Minister of India's son dates a >girl in London, the KGB which valued Indo-Soviet relations, obviously would >investigate her and find out that she was the daughter of Stefano, their >old reliable Italian contact. Thus, Sonia with Rajiv meant deeper access to >the household of the Indian Prime Minister. Hence cementing the Rajiv-Sonia >relations was in the Soviet national interest and they went to work on it. >And they did through their then existing moles in the Indira Gandhi camp.> After her marriage to Rajiv, the Soviet connection with the Mainos was >fortified and nurtured by generous financial help through commissions and >kickbacks on every Indo,Soviet trade deal and defence purchases. According >to the respected Swiss magazine, Schweitzer Illustrate [November 1991 >issue], Rajiv Gandhi had about $ 2 billion in numbered Swiss bank >accounts,which Sonia inherited upon his assassination. Dr. Yevgenia Albats, >Ph.D [Harvard], is a noted Russian scholar and journalist, and was a member >of the KGB Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August 1991. She was >privy to the Soviet intelligence files that documented these deals and KGB >facilitation of the same. In her book,The State Within a State. The KGB in >Soviet Union, she even gives the file numbers of such intelligence files, >which can now be accessed by any Indian government through a formal request >to the Kremlin.> The Russsian Government in 1992 was confronted by the Albats' >disclosure; they confirmed it through their official spokesperson to the >press [which was published in Hindu in 1992], defending such financial >payments as necessary in "Soviet ideological interest".> When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, things changed for Ms. >Sonia Gandhi. Her patrons evaporated. The rump that became Russia was in a >financial mess and disorder. So Ms. Sonia Gandhi became a supporter of >another communist country to the annoyance of the Russians.> The national security ramification of this 'annoyance' is now >significant: The President of Russia today is Putin, a former >dyed-in-the-wool KGB officer. Upon Dr. Manmohan Singh's government taking >office, Russia called back it's career diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and >immediately posted as the new Ambassador a person who was the KGB station >chief in New Delhi during the 1970s. In view of Dr. Albats confirmed >revelation, it stands to reason that the new Ambassador would have known >first hand about Sonia's connections with the KGB. He may have in fact been >her "controller". The new Indian government which is defacto Sonia's, >cannot afford to annoy him or even disregard Russian demands coming from >him? They will obviously placate him so as not to risk exposure. Is this >not a major national security risk and a delicate matter for the nation?> Of course, all Indians would like good normal and healthy relations with >Russia. Who can forget their assistance to us in times of need? Today's >Russia is the residual legatee of that Soviet Union which helped India. But >just because of that, should we tolerate those in our government set up >having clandestine links with a foreign spy agency? In the United States, >the government did not tolerate an American spying for Israel even though >the two countries are as close as any two countries can be. National >security and friendship are asdifferent as chalk and cheese.> In December 2001, I had filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court >with the photocopies of the KGB documents, and sought a CBI investigation, >which the Vajpayee Government was refusing. Earlier, Minister of State for >CBI, Vasundara Raje [now Rajasthan CM], on my letter dated March 3, 2001, >had ordered the CBI to investigate. But after Sonia Gandhi and her party >stalled the proceedings of Parliament on this issue, the then Prime >Minister Vajpayee cancelled Vasundara's direction to the CBI.> The Delhi High Court issued a direction to the CBI to ascertain from >Russia the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for three years, and >finally told the Court without an FIR registered the Russians will not >entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI from registering an FIR? >The next hearing of the case is on September 8th.> ---------> V> After Sonia married Rajiv, she went about minting money with scant >regard for Indian laws and treasures. Within a few years the Mainos went >from utter poverty to billionaires. There was no area that was left out for >the rip-off. On November 19, 1974, as fresh entrant to Parliament, I asked >the then Prime Minister Ms. Indira Gandhi on the floor of the House if her >daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi was acting as an insurance agent of a public >sector insurance company [Oriental Fire & Insurance], giving the Prime >Minister's official residence as her business address, and using undue >influence to insure all the officers of the PMO while remaining an Italian >citizen [thus violating FERA]? There was uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. >Indira Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare >admission that it was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had >resigned from her insurance agent status [after my question]. But Sonia was >incorrigible. Her contempt for> Indian law continued to manifest.> The Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party government >in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti Company then owned >by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight violations of FERA, Companies >Act, and Foreigners Registration Act by Sonia Gandhi. She was never >prosecuted, but can be still prosecuted because under Indian law, economic >crimes not subject to the statute of limitation.> In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first >thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross >violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa [since she >was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some hullabaloo in the >press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer got her name deleted >in 1982. But in January 1983, she again enrolled herself as a voter! Such >is her revealed disdain for Indian laws and that is her mindset even today.> VI> The bottom line observed in Sonia's mindset is that she can always run >back to Italy if she becomes vulnerable at anytime. In Peru, President >Fujimori who all along claimed to be "born Peruvian", faced with a >corruption charge fled to Japan with his loot and reclaimed his Japanese >citizenship.> In 1977, when the Janata Party defeated the Congress at the polls, and >formed the government, Sonia with her two children, abandoned Indira Gandhi >and ran to the Italian Embassy in New Delhi and hid there. Rajiv Gandhi was >a government servant then [as an Indian Airlines pilot], but he too tagged >along and hid in that foreign embassy ! Such was her baneful influence on >him. Rajiv did snap out Sonia's influence after 1989, but alas he was >assassinated before he could rectify it. Those close to Rajiv knew that he >was planning set things right about Sonia after the 1991 elections. She did >too know of it because he had told her. Ever wonder why Sonia's closest >advisers are those whom Rajiv literally hated? Ambika Soni is one such >name. Ever wonder why she asked the President of India to set aside, on a >mercy petition, the Supreme Court judgment directing that Rajiv Gandhi's >LTTE killers be hanged to death, when she was not similarly moved for >Satwant Singh who killed Indira> Gandhi or recently for Dhanajoy Chattopadhyaya? The explanation for this >special consideration for the LTTE lies in what Rajiv had told her in 1990.> Those who have no love for India will not hesitate to plunder her >treasures. Mohammed Ghori, Nadir Shah, and the British scum in the East >India Company made no secret of it. But Sonia Gandhi has been more >discreet, but as greedy, in her looting of Indian treasures. When Indira >Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were PrimeMinisters, not a day passed when the PM's >security did not go to the New Delhi, or Chennai international airport to >send crates and crates unchecked by customs to Rome. Air India and Alitalia >were the carriers. Mr. Arjun Singh first as CM, later as Union Minister in >charge of Culture was her hatchet man. Indian temple sculpture of gods and >goddesses, antiques, pichwai paintings, shatoosh shawls, coins, and you >name it, were transported to Italy to be first displayed in two shops owned >by her sister [ i.e., Anuskha alias Alessandra]. These shops located in >blue-collar areas of Rivolta [shop name: Etnica] and Orbassano [shop >name:Ganpati] did little business because> which blue collar Italian wants Indian antiques? The shops were to make >false bills, and thereafter these treasures were taken to London for >auction by Sotheby's and Christies. Some of this ill-gotten money from >auction went into Rahul Gandhi's National way into the Gandhi family >account in the Bank of America in Cayman Islands.> Rahul's expenses and tuition fees for the one-year he was at Harvard, >was paid from the Cayman Island account. What kind of people are these >Gandhi-Mainos that bite the very hand of Bharat Mata that fed them and gave >them a good life? How can the nation trust such greedy thieves?> Since I failed to persuade the Vajpayee government to defend India's >treasures from plunder by the Mainos, I approached the Delhi High Court in >a PIL. The first Bench of the court issued notice to the Government, but >since the Indian government dragged it's feet, the Court directed the CBI >to seek Interpol's and Italian government's help. The Italian government >justifiably asked for a Letter Rogatory for which a FIR is a pre-requisite. >But the Interpol did oblige and submitted two voluminous reports, which the >Court directed the CBI to hand over to me. But CBI has refused, and has >claimed privilege! The CBI has also been caught lying in court by telling >the judges that Alessandra Maino is a name of a man, and Via Bellini 14, >Orbassano is a name of a village [not the street address of the Maino's >residence]. Although the CBI counsel had to apologise to the court stating >he made a mistake, he has been promoted to Additional Solicitor General by >the new government! The> Vajpayee-Sonia mutual assistance pact is in full view. The case now comes >up on September 8th.> But the most sinister aspect of Sonia Gandhi's character is her >connection with terrorists. I am still working on it, but she has had long >connection with the Habash group of Palestinian, and has funded Palestinian >families that lost their kith and kin in a suicide bombing or hijacking >episode. This, Rajiv Gandhi himself told me and was confirmed to me [the >funding] by Yassir Arafat when I met him in Tunis on October 17, 1990 at >the request of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi and I were good friends from >1978, but became very close buddies after V.P. Singh had betrayed him in >1987. We met practically every day, mostly in the early hours from 1AM to >4AM. It was at my suggestion that he made Chandrashekhar the PM. And >contrary to public impression, he was not mainly responsible for the fall >of Chandrashekar government in which I was a Minister.> Besides the Palestinian extremists, the Maino family have had extensive >business dealings with Saddam Hussein, and surprisingly with the LTTE ["the >Tamil Tigers"] since 1984. Sonia's mother Paola Predebon Maino, and >businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi were the main contacts with the Tigers. The >mother used the LTTE for money laundering and Quattrocchi for selling >weapons to earn commissions.> Sonia's conduit to the LTTE has been and is through Arjun Singh who uses >Bangalore as the nodal point for contact. There is a string of >circumstantial evidence pointing to the prima facie possibility that the >Maino family may have contracted the LTTE to kill Rajiv Gandhi. The family >may have assured the LTTE that nothing would happen to them because they >would ensure it is blamed on the Sikhs or the evidence so much fudged that >no court would convict them. But D.R. Karthikeyan of the CBI who led the >SIT>investigation got the support of Narasimha Rao and cracked the case, and >got the LTTE convicted in the trial court, and which conviction was upheld >in the Supreme Court.> Although on the involvement of Congress Party in the assassination, DRK >soft peddled on a number of leads perhaps because he did not want political >controversy to put roadblocks on his investigation as a whole. The Justice >J. S. Verma Commission, which was set up as the last official act of the >Chandrashekhar government before demitting office on June 21, 1991, did >find that the Congress leaders had disrupted the security arrangements for >the Sriperumbudur meeting. The Commission wanted further probe into it but >the Rao government rejected that demand. In the meantime under Sonia's >pressure, the Jain Commission was set up by the Rao government, which tried >to muddy the waters and thus exonerate the LTTE. But the trial court >judgment convicting the LTTE came earlier, and that sinister effort too >failed.> Nowadays, Sonia is quite unabashed in having political alliance with >those who praise Rajiv Gandhi's killers. No Indian widow would ever do >that. My investigations into Sonia's involvement in Rajiv's assassination >is therefore still on. I am also author of a best seller titled >Assassination Of Rajiv Gandhi,Unasked Questions and Unanswered Queri