Startling revelation in Air India case

They include a transcript of a meeting between the RCMP and one of the two suspects in the bombing – Ajaib Singh Bagri – the day after he was arrested and charged with mass murder in October 2000.

In it, the RCMP lays out the case against him, and tells Bagri that another alleged member of the conspiracy was an agent for CSIS.

His name is Surjan Singh Gill, who at the time, called himself the consul-general of the non-existent independent Sikh state of Khalistan.

Gill has never been charged.

Bagri was charged in October 2000 – and the next day, Oct. 28, the RCMP told Bagri that CSIS had a mole inside the plot.

The transcript makes it sound as though CSIS knew the bomb plot was getting serious, and pulled its man out.

RCMP Inspector Lorne Schwartz said: "Surjan Singh Gill was involved in this right from the start and was probably directed by certain people to stay involved and to learn what was going on."

Then RCMP Sgt. Jim Hunter said: "Surjan trying to back out. And, of course, why's he trying to back out? Well, because his CSIS agents have told him to back out. They told him to get out of there – that things are happening and you can't be seen as part of that."

Neither CSIS nor the RCMP would comment on the document, and it's still unclear how much CSIS knew about the plot.

However, it is known that Surjan Singh Gill was never charged, and left for London just before the arrests in 2000.

It's also known that CSIS later destroyed hundreds of wiretaps it made of the suspects before and after the bombing – which the Crown has conceded is "unacceptable negligence."

Two B.C. men – Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik – are on trial for the murders of the 329 people aboard Air India flight 182 which exploded off the coast of Ireland in 1985.