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Jaswant's 'mole' letter forgery: US
Published on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 21:06, Updated at Thu, Aug 03, 2006 in section
Tags: Jaswant Singh Book, US Mole , Washington DC
Washington DC: The State Department in Washington DC chas dismissed the alleged letter on a mole in the PMO as fraudulent and unauthentic.
While talking to CNN-IBN, State Department official Len Sensey attacked the very existene of the letter saying, it was highly improbable that such a letter would exchange hands between a Senator and a US official.
Former External affairs minister Jaswant Singh has alleged that US Senator Thomas Graham wrote to a former American Ambassador to India, Harry Barnes on the presence of a ‘mole’ in the PMO during P V Narasimha Rao's tenure, allegedly leaking nuclear secrets to US.
The State Department, however, says it's not clear if the writer of the letter is actually a US Senator or another person with the same name.
The official went on to contend that a US Senator could not have written the letter since it contains certain classified terms accessible only to US government officials.
The State Department refused to talk on the camera or even issue an official statement on the issue saying it doesn't want to award any legitimacy to a letter whose very existence it questions.
Officials in Washington DC told CNN-IBN that the State Department is not planning any formal action because it considers this a "domestic Indian matter."
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