NEW DELHI, July 20: The United States had a mole in former Indian prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao’s office and “we are still being snooped,” former foreign minister Jaswant Singh was quoted on Thursday as saying.

Press Trust of India quoted Mr Singh as making the disclosure in an interview with India Today magazine.

Mr Singh said he had come to know about the espionage a decade ago but remained quiet so far as he did not want to sensationalise the issue.

“Yes, there was a person in the PMO. I have evidence, a letter which gives graphic details.”

The Bharatiya Janata Party leader claimed that “somebody in the PMO was giving information about India’s nuclear programme to the US.”

He said: “The honour of the prime minister’s office, to an extent, was at stake. We were snooped, we are still being snooped.” He said the letter which mentioned the PMO mole was received by him a decade back.

“I do not want to sensationalise it. I did not use it then. I did not use it when in government, I did not bring it up with the US government to tell them look here, this is what you were doing. All governments do try to find what is happening in which country.,” he said.