LTTE subversive action threatens India
[09 Mar 2000]

Subversive LTTE involvement with Pakistani military intelligence and Mumbai- and Karachchi-based drug traffickers poses a new threat to India, according to a leading Indian weekly magazine.

The LTTE are alleged to have joined hands with the Pakistani military intelligence for subversive activities, in what has been described by a Union Home Ministry report as a "major security threat" against India.

Indian intelligence agencies have warned the Home Ministry that the LTTE is keeping a close watch on defence installations and nuclear facilities in South India.

LTTE civil intelligence chief Pottu Amman and military adviser Wedi Dinesh are said to be the terrorists' main behind-the-scenes operatives. Recently, the Tigers had photographed the Fuel Reprocessing Plant at Kalpakkam, built models and collected details of scientific officers. Janan Master, the person who masterminded the 1993 assassination of Sri Lankan President Premadasa, is understood to be coordinating the operations.

In addition, an LTTE-Indian underworld connection in drug trafficking has been operative since 1998.

According to the Indian magazine, Indian intelligence had even monitored a meeting between four LTTE men and a Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence agent who had worked for Dawood Ibrahim.

In Mumbai, it is said that a recent intelligence bureau red alert, the crime branch stated that a senior Samajawadi Party Leader had hatched a plan to eliminate an important right-wing political leader.

The article quotes a RAW officer as saying "the ISI might use LTTE commandos from now on for such operations".

Government sources said that these revelations are only a few of a large number of deadly covert operations of the LTTE.

"The government is doing its best to expose the Tigers' various falsehoods to reveal their true identity to the whole world," one official said.

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