RAW agent defects to US
NEW DELHI, May 29: A senior sleuth of India's external intelligence agency RAW has turned out to be a double agent and has defected to the United States, news reports said on Saturday.
They said Ravinder Singh, a joint secretary in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) who had been missing since May 14, is believed to have been spying for the United States and he may have defected there.
Mr Singh was being watched by RAW's counter-intelligence wing for the past one month when he came under suspicion after a 'slip' by a US diplomat working under cover at the American embassy in Delhi, The Hindustan Times said.
The unidentified US official, on a routine liaison session with RAW officers, happened to mention Mr Singh's name. It led RAW to mount a counter-surveillance operation.
Mr Singh's phones were tapped and a spy camera was fitted in his office at RAW headquarters. The spy camera showed Mr Singh photocopying top-secret documents and other operational details of the country's external intelligence agency, which he is believed to have later passed on to his American handlers, the newspaper said.
The agency is trying to figure out the secrets Mr Singh might have passed on. But it is clear that the spy fled while RAW dithered, the newspaper said.
A brazenly pro-American government has been recently replaced in India by a Congress Party led coalition, which seeks strategic ties with Washington, but reserves the right to speak its mind.
The newspaper said when RAW's bosses discussed the issue with a former top security official, they were asked not to proceed against the alleged defector.
That split the RAW hierarchy. While one group wanted immediate action against Mr Singh, another refused to allow his arrest. The time lost gave Singh the opportunity to make a quiet getaway.-J.N.
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A spy story: top RAW officer fled via Nepal on US passport
Joint Secy Rabinder Singh sacked, preliminary probe shows he had bank accounts in Singapore, Brunei and US where wife, family are
SHISHIR GUPTA & PRANAB DHAL SAMANTA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 5: The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the country’s premier external intelligence agency, has now discovered that its missing Joint Secretary Rabinder Singh could have fled the country via Nepal on a United States passport.
The agency has obtained a photocopy of the passport. A US Embassy official, when contacted by The Sunday Express here today, said: ‘‘We don’t comment on such matters.’’
But on the recommendation of the government’s Committee of Advisors, which includes the Home Secretary and the Law Secretary, Singh has been dismissed from service for ‘‘jeopardising the nation’s security.’’
More immediately, though, RAW is scrambling to assess how much damage Singh has caused.When The Indian Express first reported his disappearance on May 27, the agency had tried to suggest that he was not handling sensitive information. But a senior official now admits: ‘‘The fact that a third country issued a passport to help Singh flee shows how important he was.’’
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The suspicion, therefore, is that Singh’s handlers could be based in the US, reinforced by the fact that his wife and family live there.
Singh had two passports of his own—a personal one and a diplomatic passport that, records show, he last used to fly to London on March 24.
He returned to India on March 29 aboard Air India Flight AI 112 which originates from New York. He has never used his personal passport.
After RAW officials suspected that Singh could be leaking secrets, they kept him under watch for the past four months, on orders from agency chief C D Sahay.
On April 19, he was confronted for allegedly taking ‘‘sensitive files’’ home from office. On May 4, RAW’s counter-intelligence wing submitted a report revealing that Singh had bank accounts in Singapore, Brunei and the US. It recommended freezing these accounts and arresting the officer.
But Singh managed to escape on May 14, a day after the election results, and reached Nepal where, sources said, his handlers had the US passport ready for him. Whether he is now in the US hasn’t been established yet.
After a preliminary investigation, RAW is said to have told the Prime Minister’s Office that Singh was copying classified intelligence reports and top secret unofficial intra-office memos relating to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
After Singh’s disappearance, there are also reports that sophisticated transmission devices were found in some ‘‘sensitive sections’’ in the agency, including the ‘‘Q-section’’ where highly classified documents are kept.
In a written reply to a query from The Sunday Express, S K Mehrotra, Director ® in the Cabinet Secretariat, said: ‘‘I am authorised to deny the information therein is false and baseless.’’
Meanwhile, RAW chief Sahay is expected to complete his internal inquiry by the third week of June.
The PMO is considering a subsequent inquiry by the IB into the affair. This is in line with a recommendation made by the Intelligence Group, post-Kargil, which had suggested that the IB should act as the agency keeping an eye on RAW. One of the members of that group was former IB chief M K Narayanan, now special advisor to the PM.
The PMO also wants the security manual upgraded to prevent digital transmission of sensitive information. ‘‘As the prime suspect himself has defected to a third country, the next step is not to find scapegoats responsible for this fiasco but add teeth to the security manual,’’ a top official said, adding that while the probe would look at the spread of Singh’s alleged net, the Government prefers to take a cautious, ‘‘step-by-step’’ approach.
Once chief Sahay submits the report, it will be discussed by Narayanan, National Security Advisor J N Dixit and Principal Secretary T K A Nair with the PM.
Joint Secy Rabinder Singh sacked, preliminary probe shows he had bank accounts in Singapore, Brunei and US where wife, family are
SHISHIR GUPTA & PRANAB DHAL SAMANTA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 5: The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the country’s premier external intelligence agency, has now discovered that its missing Joint Secretary Rabinder Singh could have fled the country via Nepal on a United States passport.
The agency has obtained a photocopy of the passport. A US Embassy official, when contacted by The Sunday Express here today, said: ‘‘We don’t comment on such matters.’’
But on the recommendation of the government’s Committee of Advisors, which includes the Home Secretary and the Law Secretary, Singh has been dismissed from service for ‘‘jeopardising the nation’s security.’’
More immediately, though, RAW is scrambling to assess how much damage Singh has caused.When The Indian Express first reported his disappearance on May 27, the agency had tried to suggest that he was not handling sensitive information. But a senior official now admits: ‘‘The fact that a third country issued a passport to help Singh flee shows how important he was.’’
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The suspicion, therefore, is that Singh’s handlers could be based in the US, reinforced by the fact that his wife and family live there.
Singh had two passports of his own—a personal one and a diplomatic passport that, records show, he last used to fly to London on March 24.
He returned to India on March 29 aboard Air India Flight AI 112 which originates from New York. He has never used his personal passport.
After RAW officials suspected that Singh could be leaking secrets, they kept him under watch for the past four months, on orders from agency chief C D Sahay.
On April 19, he was confronted for allegedly taking ‘‘sensitive files’’ home from office. On May 4, RAW’s counter-intelligence wing submitted a report revealing that Singh had bank accounts in Singapore, Brunei and the US. It recommended freezing these accounts and arresting the officer.
But Singh managed to escape on May 14, a day after the election results, and reached Nepal where, sources said, his handlers had the US passport ready for him. Whether he is now in the US hasn’t been established yet.
After a preliminary investigation, RAW is said to have told the Prime Minister’s Office that Singh was copying classified intelligence reports and top secret unofficial intra-office memos relating to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
After Singh’s disappearance, there are also reports that sophisticated transmission devices were found in some ‘‘sensitive sections’’ in the agency, including the ‘‘Q-section’’ where highly classified documents are kept.
In a written reply to a query from The Sunday Express, S K Mehrotra, Director ® in the Cabinet Secretariat, said: ‘‘I am authorised to deny the information therein is false and baseless.’’
Meanwhile, RAW chief Sahay is expected to complete his internal inquiry by the third week of June.
The PMO is considering a subsequent inquiry by the IB into the affair. This is in line with a recommendation made by the Intelligence Group, post-Kargil, which had suggested that the IB should act as the agency keeping an eye on RAW. One of the members of that group was former IB chief M K Narayanan, now special advisor to the PM.
The PMO also wants the security manual upgraded to prevent digital transmission of sensitive information. ‘‘As the prime suspect himself has defected to a third country, the next step is not to find scapegoats responsible for this fiasco but add teeth to the security manual,’’ a top official said, adding that while the probe would look at the spread of Singh’s alleged net, the Government prefers to take a cautious, ‘‘step-by-step’’ approach.
Once chief Sahay submits the report, it will be discussed by Narayanan, National Security Advisor J N Dixit and Principal Secretary T K A Nair with the PM.
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