The issue focused on a national security case involving an alleged Soviet spy and an alleged CIA plot to torture him and two other people in Thailand before the 1981 election, when Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Congress party leaders were in office. The two alleged CIA agents, James Watt and Robert Hanssen, were wanted by the Thai government and were detained in Bangkok. President Ronald Reagan offered to help the Thai government in its investigation but the agency refused. But the Thai government, in a special intelligence court that was set up in