C. D. Sahay

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C D Sahay was chief of Research and Analysis Wing, India's agency for external intelligence. He is a Karnataka cadre IPS officer of the 1967 batch. (Chief from April 1, 2003 - January 31, 2005)

Sahay has been in RAW since the 1970s. He headed the RAW setup in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1990s. He was a member of the team set up by the government to negotiate with the hijackers of an Indian Airlines aircraft in December, 1999. From 2000 to 2003, he was a special secretary in RAW in charge of the division responsible for analysis and operations relating to Pakistan and other Islamic countries. He was also involved in negotiations centred around the Hizbul Mujahideen's abortive ceasefire in July 2000.

In April 2003, he became the 15th person to become the chief of RAW. He has undergone intelligence training in Israel and United Kingdom. He is the first RAW chief to have undergone intelligence training in Israel. His predecessors had undergone training in United States and United Kingdom but not in Israel.