Pak espionage racket: With 'pizza' & 'burger', spies baked sinister plot

October 30, 2016 15:56

'Eating pizza', or alternatively, 'having a burger' meant much more than fast food to the four men arrested for spying for Pakistan on Wednesday. Technical information, corroborated by the interrogation of the men, has revealed these to mean rendezvous at the Ansal Plaza amphitheatre and a Pitampura mall, respectively. 'Coffee peena hai aaj' translated into a meeting at a Preet Vihar mall.

They exchanged documents and received payments in the open in crowded places, often passed as they brushed past each other. The drop points include metro stations, where the stolen paper would be left on the staircase from where the receiver retrieved them.

Both ISI agent Mehmood Akhtar and his Indian associate Shoaib have disclosed that the spies used a special USB device that extracted data from government computers in a jiffy. According to police, the device had a program that automatically extricated information from the computer.

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