'Mole' letter fake, says US; Cong brings privilege notice against Jaswant

The woes of senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on over his mole-in-the-PMO issue continued today with the United States distancing itself from a purported letter in which a former Senator was said to have mentioned about the informer, and the Congress party bringing in a breach of privilege notice against the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha.

A senior American administration official termed as a "fraudulent, poor imitation" of official US government correspondence the letter said to have been written by Senator Thomas Graham to former American Ambassador to India Harry Barnes on the "mole" in the PMO during P V Narasimha Rao's tenure allegedly leaking nuclear secrets.

"The letter does not contain a shred of truth. The US was not asked to examine it (the letter) before its publication in newspapers...," the administration official said.