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Issue no. 688 dated 15 may, 2013

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PRIVATE SECURITY

VIP bodyguards: protecting the super-rich

Foreign service budget cuts and the gradual disappearance of piracy in the Gulf of Aden are behind growing numbers of private security companies moving into the industry’s practically only growth area: close protection for the very wealthy.Page Group’s new venture - Britain's Page Group, the European External(...) [ 516 words ]

BAHRAIN
Ian Henderson

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LEBANON / RUSSIA
Mikhail Bogdanov

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Dark Drive goes on the defensive…and offensive

A US start-up is developing a USB key that can protect its own contents - while infecting a PC.(...) [ 324 words ]

Tricia Canzeri, the VIPs' ambassador

Oligarchs, royals and other US visa rejects would be lost without the help of a small Washington-based firm that greases the wheels of the US administration.(...) [ 381 words ]

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GREY AREAS

SYRIA / LEBANON

Syria: map of Hezbollah's battalions

Hezbollah fighters are not only supporting the Syrian Army near the border with Lebanon, they are also in Damascus and Homs.(...) [ 336 words ]

SWITZERLAND

SRC to get eyes and ears

Before the end of the year the Swiss intelligence services may be allowed to plant listening devices in the homes and intercept the telephone calls of terrorism suspects.(...) [ 246 words ]

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UNITED KINGDOM - The ISC, the parliamentary committee with oversight of Britain's intelligence services,(...) [ 90 words ]

RUSSIA - Mikhail Fradkov, the director of the SVR, Russia’s external intelligence service, got(...) [ 90 words ]

FRANCE - The cost of Operation Serval The annual cost of the French fighters engaged in Operation Serval is estimated at €112,000,(...) [ 129 words ]

SYRIA / EUROPE / UNITED STATES - Western intelligence services cooperate on chemical weapons France, the United States and Britain have shared intelligence gathering on the suspected(...) [ 101 words ]

UNITED STATES

Spy rocket launches privatised

In a bid to reduce costs, the NRO has opened up the spy satellite launch marketplace to competition from a new private operator.(...) [ 168 words ]

UNITED STATES - John Brennan, the new director of the CIA, ended up chosing Francis Archibald to take(...) [ 95 words ]

UNITED STATES - The CIA has picked a former AOL chief to be the number two of its technical department.(...) [ 80 words ]

SYRIA / EUROPE / UNITED STATES - Western intelligence services cooperate on chemical weapons France, the United States and Britain have shared intelligence gathering on the suspected(...) [ 101 words ]

SYRIA

Traces of sarin found in samples

President Bashar al-Assad's ally Iran spurred the regime's use of the nerve agent sarin against the Syrian rebels.(...) [ 319 words ]

TURKEY

Erdogan curbs police role

Engaged in risky negotiations with the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is keen to ensure that the talks are not sabotaged by his enemies in the police and the army.(...) [ 231 words ] [FREE]

LEBANON - The ISF captured Hussein al Hujeiri in an ambush in the village of Aarsal, on the Syrian(...) [ 109 words ]

JORDAN - The GID, which has been acting as the proxy of several Western and Gulf intelligence(...) [ 111 words ]

SYRIA - International conference in works Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Damascus, visited Paris last week to meet Syrian exiles.(...) [ 56 words ]

LEBANON - Hezbollah urges Assad to show restraint After the Israeli bomb attacks targeting arms depots near Damascus on May 5, Hezbollah(...) [ 79 words ]

SYRIA / EUROPE / UNITED STATES - Western intelligence services cooperate on chemical weapons France, the United States and Britain have shared intelligence gathering on the suspected(...) [ 101 words ]

QATAR - Emir ill-health rumours While the French are only just beginning to realise how influential he is - no fewer(...) [ 135 words ]

NORTH KOREA

Beijing’s Meng cosies up to Pyongyang

A figure who played a key role in persuading Kim Jong-un to back off on North Korea’s recent plans for a military show of force was China’s new security services(...) [ 180 words ]

CHINA

Drone leak prompts mole hunt

Taiwan’s military intelligence service, the Ch’ing Pao Chu, recently warned the government in Taipei that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was positioning(...) [ 116 words ]

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THE RED LINE

AFGHANISTAN / UNITED STATES / UNITED KINGDOM

Kabul: tax system distorts private security market

British companies protecting European embassies in Afghanistan are subject to tax while competitors contracted to work for the US do not have to pay.(...) [ 349 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Greyhawk carves niche

Founded barely a year ago, the small London-based consultancy Greyhawk advises international development banks.(...) [ 191 words ]

SWEDEN

Vesper Group targets private sector

The Swedish foreign service’s only private security contractor, Vesper Group has beefed up its board and is bidding to make its mark in the private sector.(...) [ 199 words ]

FRANCE

Decision time for SOFEMA

SOFEMA, the former French state owned military exports agency, seems poised for a shareholder shakeup. The company’s board meets on June 3.(...) [ 311 words ]

FRANCE

Soulie's last stand

French consultant Jean-Paul Soulie, still unstoppable in his eighties, is trying to mobilise his old network of contacts in Canada to help France sell its Rafale to the country.(...) [ 189 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Pretexters flout privacy drive

While Britain has been trying to stamp out the sale of personal data since the News of the World hacking scandal, the field continues to become ever more sophisticated.(...) [ 200 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Richard Dearlove, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) from 1999(...) [ 77 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Page Group, Stuart Page's private security group, had its contract to protect European(...) [ 63 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Saladin, the British private security company headed by Paul Brookes, will have to throw(...) [ 100 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Malachite homes in on Morocco Malachite Advisors, the emerging markets consultancy founded by MI6 veteran Christopher(...) [ 78 words ]

FRANCE / ROMANIA - Military exports via Bucharest Renault Trucks Defense signed a deal mid-April with the Romanian company MFA-Mizil to(...) [ 72 words ]

CANADA - IPSA International, the US-Canadian corporate intelligence and private security company,(...) [ 119 words ]

CANADA - GardaWorld, the international subsidiary of the Canadian security guard and cash transportation(...) [ 75 words ]

UNITED STATES - Nardello & Co., the private investigation firm founded in 2003 by ex-federal prosecutor(...) [ 117 words ]

ISRAEL

Tribunal to lift lid on gas deals

For six years, the Israeli magnate and former Mossad operative Yosef Maiman traded in Egyptian gas in Israel with his partner Hussein Salem, a former Egyptian intelligence(...) [ 205 words ]

SYRIA - Spy software sales company receives hefty fine Like other internet monitoring software manufacturers (IOL 657), Germany’s Computerlinks(...) [ 93 words ]

ISRAEL - Elbit’s missing millions in Nigeria The Israeli defence group Elbit, which is listed on the Tel Aviv stock market, announced(...) [ 129 words ]

MIDDLE EAST - International probe into presidential fortunes With neither Tunisia, Libya nor Egypt’s governments having managed to recover assets(...) [ 144 words ]

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