New Delhi: The computer analyst with the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), S S Paul, arrested for leaking secret data, allegedly used pen drives to supply information to a American diplomat he met through the Indo-US Cyber Security Forum, informed sources said.
The counter-intelligence wing of the Intelligence Bureau began monitoring Paul's activities earlier this year, and suspicions about him were confirmed during a seminar in April on cyber crime, the sources said.
The analyst was seen "showing extra interest" in Rossane Minchew, a third secretary in the US mission here who left the country after the spy scandal came to light, during the seminar.
It was later found that he was supplying data to her using pen drives, they said.
During the surveillance on Paul, sleuths learnt Minchew was in touch with Director of Computers of the Research and Analysis Wing, Brigadier Ujjwal Dasgupta and former Navy commander Mukesh Saini, who headed the National Information Security Coordination Cell at the NSCS and joined a US-based computer company after quitting, the sources said.
Both Saini and Dasgupta have been questioned. Taking a cue from lapses that led to the defection of senior RAW officer Rabinder Singh in 2004, the Intelligence Bureau has alerted airports and seaports to ensure that Saini and Dasgupta do not leave the country.
Sources said Paul and the other two officials had relations of "very close proximity" and the possibility of monetary considerations for leaking secret information had not been ruled out.
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