Agency Centre (MAC), as well as of the Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI). In 1988 during Operation Black Thunder, he infiltrated in Golden temple posing as an ISI agent, did espionage on Khalistani terrorists, Doval gathered information about their weapons and made maps of their positions, he became an important member in their group gave wrong advices to them to sabotaged, it helped National Security Guards (NSG) to win Golden Temple. He played a role in intelligence for Sikkim's merger with India. He was trained under M. K. Narayanan, the third National Security Advisor of India for a brief period in counterterrorism operations. He was part of the team which sent to Kandahar, Afganistan for negotiations to release passengers of hijacked aeroplane IC-814. He was later appointed on the post of, director of the Intelligence Bureau. 2016 Surgical strike on Pakistan was part of Ajit Doval's 'offensive defence stretegy'. Doval was one of the seven person who knew about India's highly classified 2019 Balakot airstrike, including Indian Navy, army, airforce chiefs and prime minister Narendra Modi. After Pakistan based terrorist attacked convoy of CRPF by car bomb in Pulwama and martyred 40, India airforce did unprecedented airstrike on terrorist bases in Pakistan. Doval was awake that whole night with dignitaries in the war room. Post-retirement (2005–2014) Doval retired in January 2005 as Director, Intelligence Bureau. In December 2009, he became the founding Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a public policy think tank set up by the Vivekananda Kendra. Doval has remained actively involved in the discourse on national security in India. Besides writing editorial pieces for several leading newspapers and journals, he has delivered lectures on India's security challenges and foreign policy objectives at several renowned government and non-governmental institutions, security think-tanks in India and abroad. In 2009 and 2011 he co-wrote two reports on "Indian Black Money Abroad in Secret Banks and Tax Havens", with others, leading in the field as a part of the task force constituted by Bharatiya Janata Part (BJP). In 2012, IB eyed on him due to then ruling party Congress's suspicions on Doval and his think tank VIF with the doubts that he and VIF were the brains behind Ramdev and Anna Hazare led anti-corruption movement, which generated anger against government. Many members of VIF got appointed to top government positions after BJP came into power. In recent years, he has