6 JANUARY 2001, page 21

Over-zealous

From Mr David Evans Sir: Re your leading article (9 December), it is true that in America there is a strong civic sense inculcated in immigrants. How ever, when I recently......

Money Matters

From Mr Chapman Pincher Sir: Mutual friends in MI6 have confirmed to me, on several occasions, that the contributions to Western security made by the senior KGB officer, Oleg......

Flying Too High

From Mr F.G.B. Smith Sir: With regard to Christopher Fildes's column (City and suburban, 16/23 December) on British Airways' style of manage ment, may I offer a few......

Target For Euro-army

From Mr Basil Dewing Sir: The reason for creating a European Army, even if it is called a Rapid Reaction Force, appears to he to enable the European Union to intervene in......

Diamond Gemma

From Mrs Pat thechin Sir: In the morning I read Theodore Dalrymple's article (Don't call me Theo', 16/23 December), in which he recounts his conversation with `Gemma' on the......