What Indicates Possible CIA Links to the Potential Threat Against Modi’s Life During the SCO Meeting
The mysterious death of Terrence Arvelle Jackson in Dhaka on August 31, 2025 — the same day Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit — has triggered serious speculation about a potential CIA connection to a threat targeting Modi. When studied alongside unusual movements by Russian and Indian security teams, the evidence suggests that a covert operation may have been underway, which was neutralized just in time.
Jackson was found dead at around 6:00 PM in The Westin Hotel, Dhaka — the same day Modi was attending the SCO summit.
However, investigators believe that the actual time of death may have occurred several hours earlier, suggesting that his body had been lying undiscovered for a considerable period before being officially reported. This delay raises further doubts about what Jackson was doing in his final hours and who may have interacted with him prior to death.
Police had initially misreported his check-in date but later confirmed that he had arrived two days earlier than first stated, pointing toward possible intentional concealment of his movements or falsification of hotel records. No postmortem was conducted in Bangladesh before U.S. authorities took possession of his body and returned him to the United States.
At roughly the same time frame, Modi and Putin were together, reportedly spending 45 minutes inside Putin’s car even after arriving at the bilateral meeting venue — a highly irregular delay for leaders of their rank. This unusual pause strongly hints that Indian and Russian security agencies were managing an active threat situation and possibly coordinating actions to neutralize a danger already detected hours earlier, around the same window when Jackson is believed to have died.
According to reports, President Vladimir Putin waited nearly 10 minutes for Prime Minister Modi before departing the SCO venue.
He insisted that both travel together in his car to the Ritz-Carlton hotel — breaking diplomatic protocol.
Such decisions are rarely spontaneous; they usually follow intelligence alerts about possible risks to a motorcade or venue.
This action signals that Russian security likely received information — possibly through counterintelligence intercepts — of a credible threat to Modi’s convoy, prompting direct coordination with Indian agencies.
Open-source records describe Jackson as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer (18A) with over 20 years of service.
A LinkedIn profile under his name listed his current role as Special Forces Officer, or 18A. He joined the US Army in 2006 after three years with the Army National Guard.
He arrived in Bangladesh in April 2025 on what was described as a “business trip,” conducting “government-related work” in various regions.
After his death, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) denied any such officer was missing or deployed abroad — insisting “the individual is alive in the U.S.”
Yet, no photographic proof or public record was produced to support this claim, raising suspicions that the denial was a standard CIA cover procedure used when operatives die during unacknowledged missions.
When reports of Jackson’s death spread, U.S. defense spokespeople immediately demanded corrections from outlets such as Northeast News.
The response was swift and defensive — another common indicator of an agency-driven disinformation clean-up, designed to erase traces of a compromised operation.
The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka also declined to comment, citing “no authority,” which is unusual in a case involving an alleged American serviceman found dead in a foreign capital.
Shortly after Jackson’s death, another shocking incident reportedly occurred — the death of a Pakistani ISI agent at the Sheraton Hotel in Dhaka.
If accurate, this suggests overlapping intelligence operations were taking place in Bangladesh, possibly connected to monitoring or interfering with the SCO summit proceedings.
The close timing of these deaths may indicate joint countermeasures taken by Indian, Russian, and Chinese intelligence to dismantle a multi-agency plot.
The unexplained 45-minute period when Modi and Putin remained inside the Russian president’s car could have served a crucial security window.
In intelligence operations, such deliberate holds are used to neutralize active threats — clearing routes, disabling surveillance, or eliminating hostile operatives before movement resumes.
Given that this delay coincided precisely with Jackson’s reported time of death, it supports the theory that coordinated neutralization efforts were underway.
Bangladesh has long served as a listening post for Western intelligence, particularly the CIA, due to its proximity to India, China, and Myanmar.
Jackson’s presence there under “business cover,” during a period coinciding with the SCO summit, fits a known CIA operational pattern — staging personnel in third countries near key summits for surveillance or contingency operations.
The U.S. denial, timing, and covert nature of his visit all point toward a deep-cover intelligence assignment possibly linked to the summit’s high-value targets.
While no conclusive evidence proves that the CIA directly plotted against Prime Minister Modi, the sequence of coincidences — Terrence Arvelle Jackson’s suspicious death, Putin’s break of protocol, Dhaka-based intelligence deaths, and the security delay — strongly suggests that foreign intelligence assets were active in the region during the SCO summit.
The rapid denials by U.S. agencies and the lack of transparency further indicate an attempt to mask operational footprints, reinforcing the possibility that the CIA was indirectly connected to the threat environment India and Russia neutralized.
These observations are based on a combination of verified reports and unverified claims, and should be viewed as part of an ongoing analysis rather than confirmed evidence.
✍️ This article is written by the team of The Defense News.