CIA chief meets heads of IB, RAW

New Delhi, Nov 22 (PTI) CIA chief Leon E Panetta held
extensive rounds of talks with Chiefs of Indian Intelligence
agencies and National Security Advisor M K Narayanan relating
to the presence of terror groups in neighbouring Pakistan and
Afghanistan and their impact on India.

Panetta met Research and Analysis Wing Director K C
Verma for two hours in the afternoon yesterday, where matters
pertaining to cooperation on counter-terrorism and
intelligence sharing mechanism on groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba,
HuJI and Jaish-e-Mohammed were discussed, official sources
said.
Later in the evening, he had an hour long meeting with
Intelligence Bureau Chief Rajiv Mathur, they said.
The CIA director, who arrived here late Friday night
after his visit to Pakistan, also had a nearly 30-minute
meeting with the National Security Advisor.
Sources said they discussed ways to further strengthen
the cooperation between India and the US in sharing real-time
intelligence.
Panetta who is on a three-day visit to India also
discussed other issues of mutual interests. The sister agency
of the CIA in the US - FBI - is probing the role of US citizen
David Headley and Pakistani-Canadian citizen Tahawwur Rana in
plotting terror strikes in the US and India.
The cooperation between the two sides in the Headley
probe was mentioned during the meeting, they added. PTI SKL
DDC


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