The role in Mumbai attacks had "spy agency of Pakistan:the spy agency of Pakistan played a major role in helping prepare the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, one of the planners of the bloodbath said interrogators India, a report said Tuesday.
David Headley, who has confessed to objectives of surveying for the attacks that have killed 166 in November 2008, made detailed allegations about the support of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, told the British newspaper Guardian .
Headley describes dozens of meetings between officials of the ISI and the militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba high (LeT), the newspaper said, citing a government report in India 109-page interrogation.
India accuses LeT - a banned Islamist group based in Pakistan - for orchestrating the attacks in Bombay.
The Guardian said Headley ISI tried to strengthen the militant organizations with links to the Pakistani state, which were marginalized by more extreme groups.
Headley, son of a former Pakistani diplomat and a white American woman, said that at least two of its missions were partially supported by the ISI and that he regularly reported to the spy agency, British daily said.
"... The ISI was no ambiguity in understanding the need for India," Headley is quoted as saying the Indian investigators, who have interviewed more than 34 hours in the U.S. in June
The documents, however, suggest that control of the ISI activists is often chaotic and most senior officers of the organization may have been aware of the magnitude of the attacks before they were launched, the paper added.
A spokesman for the ISI told the Guardian that the accusations of involvement by the agency in the Bombay bombings were "baseless."
In the attacks, 10 heavily armed men launched an assault on three-day prime targets in the financial capital of India.
Headley, who changed his name Daood Gilani has admitted his role in the construction of the attacks after being arrested in the United States.
In exchange for pleading guilty to the attacks, prosecutors from the United States agreed that it would not be extradited to India or the death penalty.