This refers to the article, “Unintelligent way to handle intelligence” (July 11) by Gautam Mukherjee. One agrees with the writer's views on how the country's intelligence agencies are being handled, nay abused, by the UPA regime. However, there is another aspect that needs to be reviewed urgently: The modernisation of our intelligence services and setting up of a Central agency that receives inputs and provides analyses. One can say this with confidence that the Research and Analysis Wing has some of the best brains and human intelligence at its command, but when it comes to technology, it ranks lower than Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence.
To reinvent and strengthen our intelligence mechanism, we also need to overhaul our education system, and put in place colleges and universities that offer courses and expertise in such fields. But most importantly, the intelligence agencies, especially the CBI need to be freed from Government control, to extract the best out of them.