Date:24/08/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/08/24/stories/2004082402241003.htm

Opinion - Letters to the Editor

Intelligence sharing

Sir, — I refer to the concern of the Indian Intelligence community over the `non-sharing' of crucial information by the Americans ("Why was the terror intelligence withheld?" Aug. 20). As a nation, we are short on self-confidence when it comes to dealing with powerful Western countries. The present instance is another one of its innumerable reflections. India ought to pay back in the same coin when the Americans come `information-mining' in New Delhi. It is amply evident that in the so-called dubious `war on terror', the Americans are in far greater need of valuable intelligence inputs from the Indian agencies than the other way round.

George Vivek Kurien,
Noida, U.P.