Security agencies discover Maoist infiltration in govt offices

Security agencies have discovered a new facet of the CPI (Maoists) that has alerted them to dangers of ultra-Left infiltration in key government departments to chart out a strategy of revolution in the future.

The CPI (Maoist)’s intelligence agency, Peoples’ Security Service (PSS), has been working meticulously for the past four years and has spread its subsidiary offices to Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad and also in the state capitals of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa.

“While its exact strength is not known, the wing is being headed by a senior Polit Bureau member of the CPI (Maoist) from deep in the jungles of Abujhmarh in Chhattisgarh. Its subsidiary offices are headed by senior state committee members of the party who live in cities.

The IB has started tracking some of them,” said a senior home ministry official.

Unlike the CPI (Maoist)’s military intelligence wing that generates information for operational use, PSS’s key job is to do short, medium and long-term assessment and chart out the future course for the party.

To achieve this, PSS depends on penetrating key government departments like home, finance, defence and policy and planning by winning over lower and middle rung employees - from peons to the level of under secretaries.

The security agencies stumbled upon its presence recently after they caught one of its middle-rung members from Bihar.

Not many know about its existence as it has been kept secret and is not mentioned in any of the Maoist secret documents and strategy papers. The Maoist’s off-shoot Revolutionary Democratic Front is the main recruitment agency for the PSS, sources said.