Retired employees of RAW, belonging to
an unregistered body - the Cabinet Secretariat Employees
Association - have written to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh , asking him to take criminal action against three
RAW officers - former secretary A.K. Verma and former
additional secretaries S. Chandershekhran and B. Raman
- "for disclosing details of various sensitive operational
activities of RAW during their service tenure."
The letter sent on July 19 says that Mr
Chandershekhran along with Mr Raman and Mr Verma have
launched a website, www.saag.org, "where they have
disclosed secret information about the policy planning
of RAW through various articles."
Association general secretary R.K. Yadav
wrote, "The articles clearly show that these officers
have used secret material which they acquired while serving
on various sensitive desks of RAW. The articles have given
out information about the details of the failure of IB
in Mumbai and RAW in Dubai to give clue about the March
1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.
The articles talk about the lack of intelligence
prior to the dropping of Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers
in Jaffna University in Sri Lanka, details relating to
technical intelligence of interception of LTTE connections,
the lack of intelligence sharing between IB and RAW, use
of intelligence by the Indian government in 1982 in Indo-American
relations, training of Naga insurgents in Yunnan in Kachin
state in Myanmar and an interception by RAW of a telephonic
conversation between General Pervez Musharraf from Beijing
and his Lt Gen. Aziz Khan during the Kargil conflict."
"The articles also talk about how
in 1990, the ARC could not arrange a plane for RAW in
an important operation because all its planes were grounded
for want of spares and pilots and how when Pakistani troops
were infiltrating into Kargil, the ARC did not operate
reconnaissance flight there since it was busy flying a
Cabinet minister to Kullu.
The articles also reveal how Arvind Dave,
secretary of RAW, during the Kargil conflict misused ARC
planes to airlift Burmese teak from Arunachal to Udaipur
and Delhi where he was constructing a house," Mr
Yadav said.
Meanwhile, Mr Verma said, "I never
started this website but have only contributed to it.
Most of my articles relate to Pakistan which has been
a country of precious study for me.
However, most of my articles are academic
and not related to intelligence and is a study of what
is wrong with Pakistan. I have never felt the need to
discuss intelligence matters. "-By arrangement with
Asian Age / New Delhi
