CIA break-in at top security location

NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies and the Delhi police are investigating yet another spy break-in at a high security location in the capital, and this time around it involves the US intelligence agencies. The investigations got underway even as the euphoria over the Indo-US nuclear deal progression was bubbling over, early this week.

SS Paul, a senior system analyst working with the National Security Council Secretariat, is being interrogated by the police and intelligence agencies to uncover the extent of information that he passed on to an American. The American, sources believe, was an undercover CIA operative in the Capital.

The National Security Council Secretariat is under the National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and has regular flow of information from all central intelligence agencies.

According to sources, Paul met the American during an Indo-US Cyber Security meet in the Capital last year, and both became friends. The documents Paul passed on would be detailed internal assessments of government thinking on a variety of sensitive issues including the Indo-US nuclear deal. It could also be intelligence inputs made available to NSCS. This is for the second time in recent years that CIA has managed to break into a sensitive Indian office.