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Was missing spy Rabinder a CIA mole in RAW?

IANS< WEDNESDAY, JUNE 09, 2004 10:59:16 AM >

NEW DELHI: A senior officer of the country's most-secretive intelligence agency has reportedly defected to the US, causing a major embarrassment to the government and casting a shadow on New Delhi's ties with Washington.

Joint Secretary Rabinder Singh of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has since been sacked, apparently after fleeing to the US via Nepal.

If the story is true, he is the highest-ranking Indian intelligence officer to defect, making him a Kim Philby of sorts - the India-born British super spy who, London shockingly discovered, was all along a KGB mole.

The RAW, founded in 1968, is India's equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and responsible for espionage abroad. It has its share of successes and setbacks, and is talked about only in whispers.

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