Good Company. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)

I WAS TROUBLED BY THE thrust of Chris Mooney's article, "Good Company" [Nov. 18, 2002], which advocated a renewal of collaboration between the CIA and scholars. In these days of new CIA and military intelligence surveillance projects, such as the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Program and its Information Processing Technology Office (The New York Times, Nov.

22), which target the U.S. public, academics and universities must be independent and critical public institutions distinct from government. History teaches that when states try to penetrate and influence ...

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