Guwahati, Feb. 22: The Ulfa leadership has warned its cadres of the presence of moles in the organisation and asked them to be careful.

A senior police official today claimed that an intercepted radio message from Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Barua to the outfit’s cadres said the Research and Analysis Wing had infiltrated the organisation.

The message was part of Barua’s address to the cadres on the occasion of the outfit’s “Sainik Divas” on March 16.

The message originated in Station 21, which is suspected to be in Bangladesh, on February 19.

The outfit observes March 16 as “Sainik Divas” every year to mark the raising of its armed wing.

In his address in Assamese, Barua said it was very unfortunate that a few leaders of the outfit had joined hands with RAW and were leaking out secret information.

“It was because of this that we have lost several of our important cadres in recent times. We have be careful in our fight against the Indian colonial forces at this crucial juncture,” the message said.

The transcript of the message runs into three fullscape pages.

The official said that Barua has sent his Sainik Divas message so early pointed at the possibility of the militant leader being on the run.

“The message is meant to be released on the outfit’s Sainik Divas. It appears he (Barua) doubts if he will get a chance to address the cadres later from some other location and so has passed on the message while still at Station 21,” the official said.

Assam police believe that Barua has fled to Yunan province in China, bordering Myanmar, a few days ago and his Sainik Divas message was radioed from Bangladesh to Assam just before he left for China. The official said it was probably the change in government in Bangladesh, which has forced the Ulfa commander to flee to China or probably it was “distrust” among the leadership that prompted him to escape.

“We have information that Partha Gogoi, a senior leader of the outfit, has been trying since a year now to establish contact with China. Gogoi, who hails from Sivasagar district, has been camping in Yunan for several months now,” the official said.

Barua’s message also bemoaned that there has been indiscipline in the “chain of command” in the outfit and a few cadres were not obeying the orders of their seniors.

A member of the central committee of Ulfa had recently visited Assam from Bangladesh in the middle of last year and established contact with Assam police.

He, the police had claimed, had played a pivotal role in the Alpha and the Charlie companies of the 28 battalion declaring a unilateral ceasefire in June last year.

It cannot be ascertained though, if this led Barua to speak about the moles.

“We have to maintain complete discipline within the organisation to carry forward our struggle,” he said.

While addressing the women cadres of the outfit, Barua said they should encourage their husbands to be strong and brave in their war for freedom.

“You all should take inspiration from Mulagabharu, the brave Assamese woman who fought against the British,” said Barua.