This was disclosed by Lashker-e-Toiba operative David Headley in his testimony before a Federal US court in Chicago during the recently-concluded trial of Tahawwur Rana.
According to AIR less than six months before the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Major Iqbal, Headley’s handler in ISI, asked him to put an advertisement in a Mumbai newspaper that an employment agency in Canada is looking for people to work in Canada.
Headley said, Major Iqbal gave him 25,000 rupees to place such an ad in the newspaper with a rider that retired military personnel are preferred. This was to be a cover to hiring military personnel, at the direction of Major Iqbal who had earlier directed him to use the immigration business of Rana for planning 26/11 operation