New Delhi: After triggering a huge controversy, former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh said on Tuesday night that he did not know the name of the 'mole' in the Prime Minister's Office who had leaked nuclear secrets in 1995.
"I don't. I have never claimed that I knew (the name of the mole). It is the media which has claimed that I knew it and I was hiding," Singh told a news channel.
He was replying to a question whether he had the name of the mole in the PMO during PV Narasimha Rao's tenure.
But when questioned as to on what basis he had ruled out former Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister VS Arunachalam and some others as the mole, Singh said because he thought Arunachalam was not by any account in this category (of mole).
About his statement at a press conference that the mole no longer lived in India, he said he had said about the person who had written the letter (to a former US Ambassador in India) was no longer in India.
"The media misinterpreted. Perhaps I did not communicate in the din."
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