Sir,—Since I have boon approached the Director of Security in New Zealand about an interview I gave to a Salient reporter, which appeared under the heading Professor's Comments" in your issue of Monday, August 6. P8 I should be glad if you would make the following points clear to your readers:—

1.	The interview look place on Wednesday July 18, some days before the news of expulsion of two Russian diplomats from New Zealand I was asked to comment on security and intelligence work in general, and made it clear to the reporter that I did not wish to discuss security services in New Zealand since I knew too little about them.
2.	The interview, though fairly reported was finally published directly following an article by Brigadier Gilbert on Security in New Zealand (which I had not seen) under a headline which naturally suggested direct comment on Brigadier Gilbert's article.
3.	When I said that "Security police did not always inspire confidence," I was referring to my own knowledge of security operations in other countries over a number of years, and not to the New Zealand Security Service in the context of the subsequent expulsion of two Russian diplomats on charges of espionage. Yours etc.