ambassador to India Daniel Patrick Moynihan, set to hit the stands in America on Tuesday.

In August 1974, Moynihan communicated to then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that he should 'pull all CIA operations from India' as it was of little help.

But in less than a month, he had to reverse his cable statement as the Prime Minister's Office wanted CIA to stay.

"I returned to the (US) embassy (in New Delhi) and wrote (Lawrence) Eagleburger (of the State Department) that my proposal that we pull CIA out of here was 'inoperative'. They want us. Possibly they even want more of us," Moynihan wrote in his journal on September 5, 1974 following his meeting with P N Dhar, the Secretary to the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and directorof Indian intelligence.

Only a month earlier, after the arrest of an Indian naval officer accused of spying for the US, Moynihan concluded that the US should simply pull all CIA operations out of India, since they learn little anyway, writes Steven R Weisman, editor of the book.

An advance copy of the book, which is a collection of personal letters and journal entry of the former US Senator and American ambassador to India, was provided to the PTI by publisher Public Affairs, New York.