NEW DELHI: Retired employees of RAW, belonging to an unregistered body - the Cabinet Secretariat Employees Association - have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , asking him to take criminal action against three RAW officers - former secretary A.K. Verma and former additional secretaries S. Chandershekhran and B. Raman - "for disclosing details of various sensitive operational activities of RAW during their service tenure."

The letter sent on July 19 says that Mr Chandershekhran along with Mr Raman and Mr Verma have launched a website, www.saag.org, "where they have disclosed secret information about the policy planning of RAW through various articles."

Association general secretary R.K. Yadav wrote, "The articles clearly show that these officers have used secret material which they acquired while serving on various sensitive desks of RAW. The articles have given out information about the details of the failure of IB in Mumbai and RAW in Dubai to give clue about the March 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.

The articles talk about the lack of intelligence prior to the dropping of Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers in Jaffna University in Sri Lanka, details relating to technical intelligence of interception of LTTE connections, the lack of intelligence sharing between IB and RAW, use of intelligence by the Indian government in 1982 in Indo-American relations, training of Naga insurgents in Yunnan in Kachin state in Myanmar and an interception by RAW of a telephonic conversation between General Pervez Musharraf from Beijing and his Lt Gen. Aziz Khan during the Kargil conflict."

"The articles also talk about how in 1990, the ARC could not arrange a plane for RAW in an important operation because all its planes were grounded for want of spares and pilots and how when Pakistani troops were infiltrating into Kargil, the ARC did not operate reconnaissance flight there since it was busy flying a Cabinet minister to Kullu.

The articles also reveal how Arvind Dave, secretary of RAW, during the Kargil conflict misused ARC planes to airlift Burmese teak from Arunachal to Udaipur and Delhi where he was constructing a house," Mr Yadav said.

Meanwhile, Mr Verma said, "I never started this website but have only contributed to it. Most of my articles relate to Pakistan which has been a country of precious study for me.

However, most of my articles are academic and not related to intelligence and is a study of what is wrong with Pakistan. I have never felt the need to discuss intelligence matters. "-By arrangement with Asian Age / New Delhi