Sweden, Dec. 1 -- Reliable intelligence sources indicate that India was blindsided when details of the MCC work plan for Sri Lanka leaked out into the public domain.

Until then Alaina Teplitz glibly lied to the public that the MCC money was simply a 'Grant' to Sri Lanka, that Sri Lanka did not have to pay back a Cent and that the Compact would not affect Sri Lanka's bank balance.

But, what Teplitz did not say, amongst many other things, was that although Sri Lanka did not have to pay back a 'Cent', Sri Lanka had, in lieu of monetary payments, to accommodate the US by making available special land Corridors which the US was insisting on, to repeal local land laws and make new land laws to make all Sri Lankan land available for outright p...