Date:22/09/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/22/stories/2007092258190100.htm

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Kanishka: ‘bureaucrats derailed probe on spy agency’

TORONTO: Under pressure from senior bureaucrats, the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee, which monitors the country’s spy agency, was forced to abandon its plans to probe the agency’s handling of the Air India bombing as early as 1988, a former senior official has said.

The panel, which monitors the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, was pressured by senior federal bureaucrats and eventually had to abandon its plans to probe the issue, former chairman of the Committee Ron Atkey submitted to the inquiry commission on Thursday. — PTI