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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

GEOPOLITICS: DRUGS AND MONEY

Last week in Paris the Observatoire Géopolitique des Drogues (OGD) held its three-day international conference: "Drugs: The New World Disorder". There were presentations by well-known specialists from North America and Western Europe including Michael Levine, former DEA undercover agent now active in community anti-drug programs, Alfred William McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and author of the best seller The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, and Alan Block, professor of criminology at Pennsylvania State University, as well as Jack Blum, lawyer and advisor to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. (...) [ 765 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
HUMANITARIAN & CIVIC MI
	The current issue of the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence magazine has two informative and surprising articles on the "humanitarian" and "civic" uses of G2 or MI military intelligence in such dissimilar places as Kurdistan and Los Angeles. (...) [ 303 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
IRA & MI5 RACE AGAINST TIME
	Under the recent operation Rolling Rock, at least thirty armed vehicle check points (VCP) were established at random times and place in the East End of London - where MI5 believes an IRA Active Service Unit is based - and on roads leading to the West End, in an effort to prevent the movement of explosives and weapons. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
WYN JONES
	Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Wyn Jones (I.N. n. 159), is to make a personal appeal to the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke after being accused of professional misconduct by an internal Scotland Yard court. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
DAVE MCCURDY
	As jockeying for top national security positions intensifies, Representative Dave McCurdy is fighting hard to avoid being the odd man out. (...) [ 273 words ] [ €5 ]

CANADA
PAUL G. ADDY
	Major General Paul G. Addy, who has served most of his career in commanding combat ready land forces - and often aboard - has been appointed Deputy Chief of the Defense Staff for Intelligence, Security and Operations at National Defense Headquarters (NDHQ) in Ottawa. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €5 ]

PANAMA
ROGELIO CRUZ
	Attorney General Rogelio Cruz may have been acting in league with the Cali cocaine cartel of Colombia when he unfroze bank accounts that the American DEA and told him the cartel was using to launder funds (I. (...) [ 244 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
POLICE "DISUNITY"
	The recent European Community (EC) summit in Edinburgh released no information on the smoldering feud concerning European police "unity" and in particular the exact roles of the Schengen Information System (SIS), the European Information System (EIS), Europol and its headquarters (I. (...) [ 376 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
FBI TO THE RESCUE?
	The international press was much more interested in the busting in Germany of two organized crime rings smuggling radioactive materials from Eastern Europe than the very discreet visit at that time by FBI chief William Sessions. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €5 ]

SOMALIA
HUMANITARIAN AID VIA THE CIA
	Since last March a large portion of the food shipped to Somalia has been transported by an air freight company created by the CIA. (...) [ 291 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
NEW BOOK ON STASI ARCHIVES
	Luc Rosenzweig and Yacine Le Forestier's book L'Empire des mouchards - les dossiers de la Stasi (Editions Jacques Bertoin, FF 115) is a journalistic account of the Stasi for the general public that focuses on some more recent inter-German cases. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
PORTRAIT OF THE TWO RUSSIAN MILITARY FACTIONS
	The depth of the division between the two factions of the Russian military establishment can easily be seen by comparing two fundamental documents. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
MORE CHANGES AT THE TOP IN THE GRU
	The reputation of instability of top jobs at the Russian GRU military intelligence (I. (...) [ 48 words ] [ €1,5 ]

URUGUAY
"THE MAN IN URUGUAY" FINALLY ARRESTED
	Uruguayan Antinarcotics Brigade officers arrested "the Man in Uruguay", a drug trafficker considered highly important and identified only by his initials G. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ISRAEL
SHIN BET OFFICER FIRED
	The unnamed deputy to the director of Shin Bet who had harassed an IDF radio reporter on his service cellular telephone (I. (...) [ 81 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

CANADA/UNITED STATES

	The Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS), in conjunction with the Intelligence Studies Association and the Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of New Brunswick, is soliciting proposals for conference papers on the theme "Intelligence Analysis and Assessment: (...) [ 99 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES

	Ross Engineering, Inc. in Sterling, Virginia (fax 1 703 318 8223), is organizing the first of a series of corporate Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) "Hands-On Training" courses. (...) [ 83 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM

	IBC Technical Services Ltd. in London (fax 44 71 631 3214) is organizing two computer security workshops - "Are You Prepared for Fraud? (...) [ 43 words ] [ FREE ]

UNITED STATES

	J. Spargo and Associates in Fairfax, Virginia (fax 1 703 818 9177), are organizing the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (ACCE) annual conference and exhibition in Arlington, Virginia, on 2-4 February 1993. (...) [ 54 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	JORDAN
	MURDER OF A NUCLEAR ENGINEER
		On 8 December nuclear engineer Moayyed Hassan al-Janabiin was assassinated in a residential area under tight surveillance in Amman (Djeibel al-Hussein). (...) [ 408 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAN
	THREE BILLION FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS
		The Supreme National Security Council, the highest political-military body in Iran, has approved a budget for the Circle of Liberation Movements which is largely intended to finance the activities throughout the Arab world and in Africa of dozens of fundamentalist parties and movements taking after the Iranian model. (...) [ 217 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

SWITZERLAND
"STRING OF PEARLS" & "SHEET OF FIRE"
	The Swiss firm Oerlikon-Contraves AG of Zurich recently published information on the successful test firing in late October of its new Ahead programmable electronic fuze munitions system. (...) [ 90 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
PSYCHOLOGY OF UNDERCOVER AGENTS
	Dr. Michel Girodo, professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa, presented a study of the psychological profiling of undercover agents at a recent conference of the American Psychological Association and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Washington. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
DETAILS PUBLISHED
	Confirming much of the information previously published concerning the American Aurora Mach 8 spy plane (I. (...) [ 60 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
MAGIC PEN AGAINST FALSE BILLS
	N.M. Factfinders Investigations of Peralta, New Mexico, has developed the $mart Money Counterfeit Detecro Pen. (...) [ 44 words ] [ FREE ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. TESTS HIGH TECH FROM ABROAD
	In August Intelligence Newsletter mentioned that "the U.S. Air Force would also like to test Spot data capabilities with small Eagle Vision mobile ground stations which could receive images directly" (I. (...) [ 270 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
PSY-OPS AGAINST THE PIRATES
	A major campaign including articles, advertisements and even an anti-piracy "rap" video portraying any form of unauthorized copying of computer programs as criminal activity has hit the American media. (...) [ 245 words ] [ €5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	ROTSCHILD BANK IN DIFFICULTY
		Banker Alfred Hartmann was obliged last year to quit as president of the Lavoro Bank (Swiss branch of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) and last February as president of the Banque de Commerce et de Placement, Swiss branch of the BCCI (I. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	ZUCKER DOESN'T GET SWISS NATIONALITY
		One of the main figures on the financial side of Irangate-Contragate, American businessman Willard Zucker, director of the Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires of Geneva, was recently refused Swiss nationality for a second time by the municipal council of Bernex (Canton of Geneva) where he has been a resident for several years. (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE/LEBANON
	MEETINGS WITH MICHEL AOUN AND RAFIC HARIRI
		General Michel Aoun, living in exile in southern France in his villa Résidence Gaby, had a four hour meeting on 9 December with Daniel Bernard, chief of staff and spokesman for the French minister of foreign affairs, Roland Dumas. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	"FAMILY, FRIENDS, ASSOCIATES" OF RICHARD V SEGORD
		Leading Irangate-Contragate figure Richard V. Secord recently addressed a memorandum to "Family, Friends, Associates, Friends of Tom Clines" asking for monetary contributions since "Tom is flat broke, serving the remainder of a 16 month sentence in federal prison and is attempting to pay some $40,000 in fines he owes to the U. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	GERMANY
	RADIO FREE EUROPE DOWNSCALING IN MUNICH
		A wave of panic recently swept over the offices of Radio Free Europe in Munich. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	DRUG ABUSE AMONG SOLDIERS
		The British Ministry of Defense recently stated that drug abuse among soldiers within the lower ranks serving in Northern Ireland has risen almost 100% since the late 1980s with 176 soldiers disciplined in 1990. (...) [ 39 words ] [ FREE ]

	UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM
	SLAP FOR ELECTION DIRTY TRICKS
		Media reports state that U.S. president-elect Bill Clinton is "too busy forming his administration" to meet British Prime Minister John Major when he visits Washington as president of the European Community (E. (...) [ 322 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	ISC GUILTY VERDICT
		A federal jury in Philadelphia found Thomas P. Jasin, a former executive of the notorious International Signal & Control Corp. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	LANGUAGE PROGRAM WITH SPY TIES
		Florida A&M University's Professor James Earl Norman is denying students' charges that a new language program funded with a $1.74 million grant he obtained from the Defense Department will be used to start a training program for spies. (...) [ 275 words ] [ €5 ]

	CHILE
	JONATHAN MOYLE'S CASE IS BACK
		The case of British journalist Jonathan Moyle, murdered in Santiago on 31 March 1990 (I.N. n. 177), was raised in the British House of Commons on 27 November by Labour MP Ken Livingstone. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]