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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

GLOBAL TROUBLE AT STATE

Although the CIA has set up a new Global Issues office (I.N. n. 225) and the Pentagon has opened a new democracy and human rights office, the State Department's attempt to set up a Bureau of Global Affairs incorporating among other things a new Bureau for Narcotics, Terrorism and Crime ("drugs and thugs") has unleashed an intense battle between Congress and the Clinton administration. (...) [ 904 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

ISRAEL
SHIN BET LAW BEING CONSIDERED
	According to a recent Israeli army radio report, the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is considering a bill to have the State Attorney handle investigations of Shin Bet internal security officials. (...) [ 68 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
ORGANIZING PRIVATE SPIES
	Moscow's large private security companies such as Bastion, Revival, Radar, Lines and others grouped together recently to form the Moscow Security Club. (...) [ 97 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
PETER S. TIPPETT
	Peter S. Tippett is a director of the National Computer Security Association (NCSA) and director of security and enterprise products at the well-known anti-virus software producer Peter Norton Group of Symantec Corporation. (...) [ 212 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
ANDREI IVANOVITCH NIKOLAEV
	President Boris Yeltsin likes security ministry officials to be military career officers as they are considered more loyal than their civilian counterparts who are usually former Communist Party officials. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
LESTER KNOX COLEMAN III
	Lester Knox Coleman III, a former DEA and DIA informant who worked in Beirut and claims that the bombers of Pan AM 103 took advantage of a Cyprus-based DEA operation to avoid baggage inspection, has just published his story in Trail of the Octopus (Bloomsbury, London). (...) [ 180 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GERALD CHLERICI WARNER
	Gerald Chlerici Warner, a former MI6 officer, was recently named Intelligence Co-ordinator of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC, I.N. n. (...) [ 254 words ] [ €5 ]

IRELAND
BRITISH EMBASSY CHANGES GUARD
	The British Foreign Office (FO) recently decided to replace the security guards at the British embassy in Dublin with a 20-strong team of former SAS troopers employed by the private security firm Keeni-Meeni Services, Ltd. (...) [ 248 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
20% CIVILIANS AT THE DRM
	The Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM), created only a few months ago under the orders of General Jean Heinrich, is taking form. (...) [ 88 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW BIDS FOR NSA COMPUTERS
	The National Security Agency (NSA), the world's largest electronic intelligence service, has just called for new bids for a five-year contract for computer workstations originally awarded to Sun Microsystems Inc. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
INTELLIGENCE/POLICE "HANDBOOK"
	The London-based Statewatch group (fax 44 81 880 1727) has just published A handbook on the European State (207 pp., isbn 1 874481 02 4) covering the development of European Community (EC) police and intelligence structures and the policies governing these organizations such as Europol, the European Information System, the Schengen Group and the Trevi Group. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

ITALY
CLEANING THE STABLES
	There seems to be high-level agreement that the interior ministry's Servizio per le Informazione e la Sicurezza Democratica (SISDE) will probably not survive the current accumulation of major intelligence scandals (I. (...) [ 457 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

UNITED KINGDOM
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRATEGIC MANUFACTURING
	The Strathclyde Institute of Glasgow (fax 44 41 353 1771) is organizing its annual ICSM meeting on 18-19 November in Auchterarder, Perthshire. (...) [ 45 words ] [ FREE ]

FRANCE
FIRST PRIVATE SECURITY FORUM
	Milipol in Paris (fax 33 1 42 80 14 38) is organizing the first forum on private security, "Offences against Companies and Communities" on 16-18 November in Monte Carlo. (...) [ 63 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GERMANY
EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE ON DATA SECURITY
	This annual conference is being organized by Mesago GmgH of Stuttgart (fax 49 711 618079) in Karlsruhe on 23-25 November. (...) [ 39 words ] [ FREE ]

Threat assessment

	IRAQ
	HELP IN PARIS, MOSCOW & PEKIN?
		Iraqi Vice Prime Minister Tarek Aziz's visit to Paris on 14-22 October, officially for "medical treatment," coincided with the trip to Moscow of Iraqi under-secretary of state for foreign affairs Riyadh al-Qaysi who was accompanied by the head of the Iraqi intelligence services, Faber al-Duri. (...) [ 562 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	IN-FIGHTING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
		Czech and French political and military authorities have been involved in complicated negotiations over the last few months. The latest episode was the recent visit to France of Jan Vlcek, chief executive officer of the RDP group, to offer an ambitious retro-fit program for T-72 main battle tanks to main French armaments firms. (...) [ 514 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
EAVESDROPPING ON FIRES
	Sound technology with triangulated sensors has security applications in detecting gun shots (I. (...) [ 82 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
CURRENCY DETECTORS BEING DEVELOPED
	According to private American intelligence and technology experts, the U.S. Treasury Department is now developing and equipping federal agencies with secret currency detectors. (...) [ 364 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NON VOLATILE, NON-EXPLOSIVE SURFACE MACHINING
	Probably working from top secret military cutting tools meant for volatile or explosive environments - aircraft crashes or bomb disposal - Ice Blast International in Shelby Township, Michigan, under research financed by the Canadian military, has developed a low-pressure jet of ice particles for stripping aircraft paint, cleaning parts and deburring aluminum. (...) [ 99 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
ALL-IN-ONE AERIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
	A revolutionary diamond-shaped planform EX aircraft is being developed by Boeing as a replacement for the U.S. Navy's aging E-2C Hawkeye carrier-based early warning radar jets produced by Grumman. (...) [ 260 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
GOOD SHOTS FROM SPACE, PLUS POSITION
	Many high-definition photographs have been taken of the Earth from the American Space Shuttle's windows, but without knowledge of the exact position or location of the terrain being photographed. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SUPERCOMPUTERS?
	The Clinton administration is now consulting its COCOM partners concerning the lifting of the 12. (...) [ 93 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	ALGERIA
	LEBANESE HOSTAGE CAMPAIGN
		Just as Intelligence Newsletter said in its 30 September issue, the American embassy in Algiers prepared a report in late August warning against Lebanese type kidnappings of kidnapping Western hostages in Algeria. (...) [ 445 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	HIGH-TECH PRISON LABOR
		Wackenhut, one of the largest private security firms in the United States and known for its controversial espionage operation against critics of the Alaskan oil companies (I. (...) [ 234 words ] [ €5 ]

	LEBANON
	DEMILITARIZATION OF THE HEZBOLLAH
		Under very strong pressure from Washington, the Syrians have promised to do everything possible to cut off the Lebanese Hezbollah from Iran. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	NISP REPORTS AT ISSS 93
		The third annual International Security Systems Symposium (ISSS 93) and exhibition on 15-17 November in Washington is far more than a well-run presentation of top-notch equipment (I. (...) [ 267 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/ISRAEL
	IS ARROW DOOMED?
		Israel's Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile failed another key test on 14 October when it passed within ten meters of a simulated chemical missile warhead but failed to detonate. (...) [ 340 words ] [ €5 ]

	LEBANON
	WHAT FUTURE FOR SLA MEMBERS?
		The 2,500 members of the Southern Lebanese Army (SLA) commanded by General Antoine Lahad have been asked to reply before the end of the month to a questionnaire concerning their future activity after the dissolution of the SLA. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	LOSING THE ECONOMIC SPY WAR?
		The Association of Former Intelligence Officers' (AFIO) annual convention, which took place in Falls Church, Virginia, on 7-9 October (I.N. (...) [ 279 words ] [ €5 ]