An FBI agent working in New Delhi was preparing to play cricket one day last November. Instead he flew off to Mumbai to coordinate the US investigation agency's efforts to help India deal with the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

These little known details about FBI efforts to assist Indian authorities probing the November siege by conspirators with ties to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group in Pakistan, were disclosed on Monday for the first time by FBI Director Robert S Mueller in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.