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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED KINGDOM

MI6 LIFTS THE VEIL

After the public unveiling of MI5 on 16 July and the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) on 1 October, MI6 had its turn to go public on 24 November. However, MI6 chief Sir Colin McColl's press conference that day did not arouse the same media hoopla as the photo session of MI5 director Stella Rimington and the presentation of a glossy brochure on the Security Service. (...) [ 992 words ] [ €7 ]

Community watch

RUSSIA
A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH FBI?
	A Russian-speaking FBI officer assigned to the legal attache's office in the U.S. embassy in Bonn has been traveling back and forth to Moscow under authorization to share information with Russian officials, FBI spokesman Bill Carter told Intelligence Newsletter recently. (...) [ 519 words ] [ €4 ]

FRANCE
DRM GAINS GROUND
	By calling in several newsmen on 26 November to present the first balance sheet of France's new Military Intelligence Service (Direction du Renseignement Militaire), the agency's boss, General Jean Heinrich, probably became the first serving chief of a French intelligence service to hold a press conference. (...) [ 472 words ] [ €4 ]

WHO'S WHO

RUSSIA
NIKOLAI GOLUSHKO
	Nikolai Golushko, 56, was appointed head of the Russian Security Ministry in September but a detailed biography of his KGB past has been difficult to obtain. (...) [ 291 words ] [ €4 ]

SWITZERLAND
ALBERT BACHMANN
	Colonel Albert Bachmann, 64, former head and founder of several authorized and unauthorized official Swiss intelligence services, and at the very center of the intelligence scandals that rocked the Swiss government in 1990, is currently still trying to recover in Ireland from a serious horse riding accident late last year. (...) [ 257 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
ANDREW BALFOUR
	Andrew Balfour, a former Foreign Office (FO) official whose diplomatic career was closely linked with MI6 covert activity in the Middle East for almost a decade, is currently suing Scotland Yard and the FO for wrongful arrest. (...) [ 340 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
BATF AVOIDS FBI ASSIMILATION
	Last week Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) chief John Magaw announced to his staff and regional offices that Vice President's Al Gore's "reinventing government" team had abandoned plans to merger the BATF with the FBI. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
A SHY ATTEMPT AT U.S.A.F.
	With diminishing research and development funds, the Pentagon is looking for ways to pay for new technology and is being strongly pushed in this direction both by American industrial interests and political interests (I. (...) [ 298 words ] [ €4 ]

NETHERLANDS
BVD SURVEY NOT SO FLATTERING
	The public relations effort surrounding the opening of the new BVD headquarters on 10 November was accompanied by reports of the results of a public opinion polls concerning the BVD (I. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
CHANGES AT FBI'S DECA PROGRAM
	Rusty Capps was the first head of the FBI's program Development of Espionage and Counterintelligence Awareness (DECA) created this year and responsible for the classified newsletter DECA Notes for Industry (I. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
CIA TO TARGET U.S. BUSINESSMEN
	In a 19 November speech before Chicago businessmen and again on 30 November on the Larry King Show on television, CIA director R. (...) [ 80 words ] [ €1,3 ]

FRANCE
A MOSAIC OF INTELLIGENCE HISTORY LORE
	Journalist and intelligence specialist Pascal Krop has just published his Les secrets de l'espionnage français de 1870 à nos jours (J. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,3 ]

RUSSIA
A DRUNKEN GUEST FROM ISRAEL
	The Russian SVR recently invited an unnamed Israel expert in anti-urban guerrilla explosives to come to Saint Petersburg to demonstrate his tradecraft. (...) [ 123 words ] [ €1,3 ]

POLAND
GOOD OLD TIMES WITH THE KGB
	The election this fall of a leftist government in Poland has led to the signing on 4 December of the first Russian-Eastern Europe security and intelligence agreement reminiscent of good old KGB times. (...) [ 185 words ] [ €4 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
COMPUTER UNDERGROUND CONFERENCE
	HoHoCon is the largest annual gathering of those in, related to, or wishing to know more about the computer underground. (...) [ 73 words ] [ €1,3 ]

QATAR
QATAR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE EXHIBITION
	Across Horizon Advanced Publication and Exhibition Services in Doha, Qatar (fax 974 42 49 72), is organizing this meeting in Qatar on 8-12 January 1994. (...) [ 56 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
SPECIAL OPERATIONS SYMPOSIUM AND EXPOSITION
	The annual Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) meeting is being organized by the American Defense Preparedness Association of Arlington, Virginia (fax 1 703 522 1885), in Washington on 12-14 January 1994. (...) [ 67 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Threat assessment

	CHINA
	MINI NUCLEAR WARHEADS?
		Last month's underground nuclear test in China produced a yield of 50 to 100 kilotons. (...) [ 64 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	NETHERLANDS
	INTERNATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK
		The Public Safety Network (fax 31 20 559 2657) was recently created by Paul Melessen, a former Amsterdam police officer with seven years experience. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,3 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
SPLICING TOGETHER NEW SYSTEMS
	With decreasing defense budgets and the need for new armament systems, many defense firms are resorting to integrating "off-the-shelf" technologies into their new products. (...) [ 93 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
REAL "FAKE" NUCLEAR TESTS?
	Although intelligence specialist and seismographers can distinguish rather easily between an underground nuclear explosion and an earthquake, they are currently trying to find ways of distinguishing between underground explosions of nuclear origin and those due to conventional explosives. (...) [ 225 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE 5M ACCURACY GPS
	It's no longer a highly protected secret that any developed country or large corporation can produce a five-meter accuracy Global Positioning System (GPS). (...) [ 192 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
COUNTERING CHIP ROBBERS
	The world's biggest producer of computer chips, Intel Corp. has decided to become the first to stamp serial numbers on its chips to identify them and to be able to trace stolen products. (...) [ 118 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
QUICK CARD TEST
	U.S. Customs, the Coast Guard and the DEA recently started using Westinghouse Security Electronic's (WSE) new cocaine detecting card. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
NASA'S SERVICES
	In publicizing the activities of its 31-year old Technology Utilization Program for law enforcement, NASA made an interesting claim in a Police Chief article this summer: (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
ONE THAT JAMES BOND MISSED
	Indeed, James Bond's Aston Martins could do almost anything but fly. (...) [ 105 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED STATES
	UNUSUAL INVOLVEMENT IN BRITISH POLITICS
		The U.S. Army's Intelligence Corps magazine, Military Intelligence, is usually turned toward technical matters. (...) [ 84 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	CZECH REPUBLIC
	INVITED OR UNINVITED GERMAN COLLABORATION?
		Earlier this month, West German ARD television channel announced that the new German immigration police were operating up to ten kilometers inside Czech territory. (...) [ 93 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	KUWAIT
	MAJOR MANEUVERS WITH RUSSIA
		The first joint land and sea maneuvers by Kuwaiti and Russian forces will begin on 24 December. They will take place at Al Adireh (80 km north of the capital) and offshore with several ships from the Russian Pacific fleet. (...) [ 190 words ] [ €4 ]

	FRANCE
	"PLAN" & ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
		Several week behind schedule, the "Business Intelligence and Business Strategies" report by a working group of the Commissariat au Plan should be published on 11 January 1994. (...) [ 613 words ] [ €4 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	"DIRTY TRICKS" AND "SECRET" TALKS
		According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Ireland, information recently leaked to the media exposing secret contacts between the British government and the IRA appears to be part of a MI5 "dirty tricks" campaign to discredit senior Republicans identified with the peace initiative. (...) [ 251 words ] [ €4 ]

	SUDAN
	A FUNDAMENTALIST INTERNATIONAL?
		The Second "Arab and Islamic People's Conference" took place in Khartoum on 2-4 December with a "diplomatic" facade at the Hilton Hotel and was thoroughly covered by the press. (...) [ 230 words ] [ €4 ]

	FRANCE
	MILIPOL EXPANDS & DIVERSIFIES
		Preliminary results of the Milipol international exhibit of police, civil and military security equipment on 23-26 November at Le Bourget near Paris show a 25 percent increase in visitors for a 20 percent rise in exhibiting companies. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €4 ]