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| Jaswant has not named the `mole` in his letter to PM | | | Mumbai, July 30: Virtually rubbishing the claim made by Jaswant Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh on Sunday said the former External Affairs Minister had not named the "alleged informant" in
PMO who leaked nuclear secrets to the US and there was no confirmation that the person was from
PMO during P V Narasimha Rao`s tenure.
The Prime Minister also said he was surprised that Jaswant Singh had not shared the material in his
possession as a Cabinet Minister with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Jaswant Singh had yesterday claimed in Mumbai that the name of the US `mole` in the PMO during the
Narasimha Rao regime, referred to by him in his book `a call to honour`, and other details have been
given to the Prime Minister in his letter sent on July 28.
"The document which you sent me is not an original document and has no signature or letterhead," Singh
said in a short reply today to Jaswant Singh.
"No such name (of the mole) has been given by Jaswant Singh", the Prime Minister`s media advisor
Sanjaya Baru told reporters here.
Giving details of the letter to the mediapersons, Baru said reports have been appearing in a section of the
media that Jaswant Singh, who is the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, has communicated some
information pertaining to certain allegations he had made with respect to leakage of information from the
PMO in the 1990s.
Baru said Jaswant Singh`s letter to the Prime Minister was no different from what he has already shared
with the media.
"I have received your letter of July 28 regarding an informant in the PMO in the mid 1990s," the Prime
Minister said in his reply to Jaswant Singh written today.
"Simultaneously, I find that a copy of the letter has been published in the latest issue of a weekly
magazine. It`s the same letter which has been addressed to the Prime Minister. No other information has
been given," he said.
Baru said Jaswant Singh`s letter to the Prime Minister was no different from what he has already shared
with the media.
".....The alleged informant is not named nor is there any confirmation that the person was from the
PMO," the Prime Minister wrote to Jaswant Singh, according to Baru.
"If you (Jaswant Singh) have any further information in this regard, you may wish to disclose it to the
public," the Prime Minister said in his letter.
"I am, however, surprised that the material sent by you was in your possession when you were a
member of the Union Council of Ministers and still you did not share it with my predecessor," he said.
Baru said the prime minister, in his letter to Jaswant Singh, said the document which the former Union
Minister had sent "is not the original document. It has no signature or letter head.
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