The CIA is commenting on the ISI and not RAW because ISI had a chance to ork with CIA during the Afghan war whereas b/n RAW and CIA there is almost no co-operation.
And according to me the more others dont talk abt a intelligence agency the more it is sucessful in its operation.
And as for ur comment of RAW is useless.....For an intelligence agency only its failures are projected..Its sucesses are however kept under wraps..
Tht is how we in India function...dont know abt ur country.
1) Yes you are absolutely right when you say that for external intelligence agencies failures are highlighted first, particularly so in case of our country India and probably because of the fact that we have democracy in our country. Additionally some people in our country do make it a habit to ponder over and show in negative light any failure on the part of these agencies
2) I have a keen interest in espionage and intelligence and other things related. I can tell you that today people like me in India and elsewhere are more than ever aware of the functioning of RAW, its successes, its failures and other things as compared to say 10 years back. Not only the internet has helped people like us immensely but also the fact that certain ex officials have been doing a great job out there to educate the public about what RAW is, ofcourse well within the limits of the Official Sectrets Act. An case in point is Mr AK Verma (ex head RAW) and Mr. Bahukutumbi Raman (my favorite). Both of these gentlemen have their blogs and contribute regularly and also they have a large following on platforms like Twitter.
We are in good company
3) A brief recount of the successes of RAW:
a) Annexation of Sikkim
b) The assistance to the Kachin Army in Myanmar, who were opposed to the China friendly junta
c) The 1971 war
d) Operation Meghdoot, the operation to free Maldives from the Tamil guerillas
e) The successful raising of the Special Frontier Force, drawn from the thousands of Tibetan refugess living in India, consequent to the annexation of Tibet in 1950, to work behind enemy lines and disturb peace and tranquility in the region
4) Now, the most important piece of information, the CIA and the RAW were and are hand in gloves and there has been no problem in that in the last so many decades, inspite of India's growing proximity to the USSR during the cold war. The mountaineering expedition to Nanda Devi in the Himalayas in the laste 1950? was a covert operation between CIA and the RAW to plant a high tech listening device to detect Chinese nuclear movements and tests.
It was very near to Lop Nur in the Xinjiang region (I guess I am correct here), the traditional area where the PRC does it tests
As an ending Mr. George Bush Sr. the President of the United States of America was the chief of CIA for many years (not highlighted during his candidacy) and he was personally very close to Mr Rameshwar Nath Kao the greatest intelligence officer India has ever produced, credited with the formation of B'desh and also the founding chief of RAW
AND the right hand man of Mrs. G. He has been instrumental in cultivating the more dreaded intelligence agency, but very useful for India, the Israeli Mossad in the 1960s, even before India has ambassador level relationship with Tel-Aviv...
My two
cents