The World - News from Feb. 5, 1985
An Indian businessman accused of playing a key role in his country’s espionage scandal testified that he sold national secrets to Poland, France and East Germany, a senior court source said. Coomar Narain said that he had obtained classified information from several high-level government officials and given it to foreign diplomats over the last 25 years. Meanwhile, the government suspended Defense Production Secretary M.C. Sarin and a secretary in the Finance Ministry, J.S. Baijal, and ordered an inquiry into the leak of documents from their departments.
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