As far as I know, he was the only significant political leader in any colony fighting British colonization who was explicitly targeted for assassination, |
Every time [the operatives] checked back, headquarters told them the orders were intact and Bose must be killed if found. |
There was a striking absence of consideration of alternative methods. If British agents could get close enough to kill him, they surely could have attempted to capture him. Also, it's significant that it was not an initiative dreamt up by an over-enthusiastic local operative but a measured step determined at a high level in London |
They thought he had gone to the Far East, but they soon intercepted Italian diplomatic communication and came to know Bose was in Kabul, planning to reach Germany through the Middle East, |