The Rabinder Singh Scandal — RAW's Darkest Betrayal

 

Year: 2004

Every intelligence agency has its traitors. RAW's most infamous one was one of its own senior officers.

Rabinder Singh became a mole of the CIA and flew to the US despite being under RAW surveillance. Singh initially worked with the Indian Army and held a very senior position with RAW handling Southeast Asia. By the time the agency sensed his affiliations, Singh escaped to the US through Nepal in 2004. The News

Rabinder Singh had helped run CIT-J — RAW's covert counterterrorism team targeting Khalistani groups — in its early years. Which means the CIA had an insider view of RAW's most sensitive counter-terrorism operations for years. EducatedIndia

Eight other key RAW operatives had also gone missing — almost all while on critical assignments outside the country — since the agency's creation in the late 1960s. The News

Singh later died in a car crash in Maryland in 2016. Whether it was an accident or something else, nobody officially knows.