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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

SENSITIVE EXPORTS: AN ERA OF "DECONTROL"

The American government is very likely to completely modify its policy on sensitive technology transfers and its fight against proliferation of nuclear and chemical arms and ballistic missile technology before next June. It will probably also alter its doctrine on retaliation against nations engaging in proliferation. (...) [ 948 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

ISRAEL
CATCHING AND FIRING ITS OWN
	The Israeli traffic police caught an unusual offender riding a police motorcycle without the proper drivers license. (...) [ 39 words ] [ FREE ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW BOOKS ON MI5
	Stephen Dorril's The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s (Heinemann, London, isbn 434 20162 6542 pp. (...) [ 106 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
PAUL F. WALLNER
	Paul F. Wallner, appointed by CIA director Robert Gates in April 1992 Open Source Coordinator and detailed to the Coommunity Management Staff, was the the only senior CIA-associated official at the Open Source Solutions conference which took place last week in Washington. (...) [ 263 words ] [ €5 ]

LIBYA
AHMED RAMADAN AL-ASABIA
	The discreet and little-known general coordinator of Libyan intelligence services is the current chief of the Guide's Intelligence Bureau (Maktab Maalumat al-Kaed), Captain Ahmed Ramadan al-Asabia. (...) [ 255 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
GENNADY YEVSTAFYEV
	Major General Gennady Yevstafyev is head of the Russian SVR foreign intelligence service's department concerned with problems of nuclear profileration and arms control. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
ETTY YAVNIN
	Interpol has electeed Etty Yavnin, a district superintendent of Israel's national police, to its executive committee. In announcing her election, Israel Police Inspector General Rafi Peled noted that Yavnin is the first Israeli ever elected to the 13-member executive of the 70-year old international criminal police organization. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
DOING AWAY WITH THE JAMES BOND IMAGE
	Beginning on 17 November NBC will starting airing an unprecedented inside look at CIA headquarters with views of James Woolsey's office, the agency's imaging operations, its operations center, its map room and its library. (...) [ 77 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
AN "AFRICAN HAND" AT DGSE
	Ambassador Guy Azais, responsible for French language affairs and the ministry of foreign affairs, was appointed director of strategic affairs at DGSE foreign intelligence on 27 October. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
CLOSED UP IN AN OPEN ERA
	Just before the Justice Department, under orders from President Bill Clinton, recently declared that it would not defend government agencies which routinely deny Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (I. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NO COOPERATION IN FALKLANDS WHITEWASH
	The Crown Prosecution Service's investigation of alleged execution of Argentinean POWs during the war in the Falklands has been marred by such elementary errors as sending written requests to meet a number of deceased persons including 19th Century war hero Colonel Conde. (...) [ 88 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI & CIA INTO HAITIAN IMBROGLIO
	According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter, the FBI has opened an investigation into who leaked details of a controversial briefing on Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide given by Brian Latell, the CIA national intelligence officer for Latin America to the Senate Intelligence Committee on 20 October. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
PENTAGON VS. CIA AT OPEN SOURCES
	One of the remarkable features of the second annual Open Source Solutions conference, "National Security and National Competitiveness," held last week in Washington (I. (...) [ 287 words ] [ €5 ]

NETHERLANDS
WHO WILL BUG POLITICIANS?
	With spring 1994 elections in sight, the press has become a battle field for the BVD counter-intelligence service and the CID police criminal intelligence service. (...) [ 246 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
DST COUNTER-SPY POSTS ABROAD
	Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) foreign intelligence agency that answers to the defense ministry and Direction de la Sécurité du Territoire (DST) counter-espionage under the interior ministry have signed an agreement. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
INVEST IN "INTELLIGENCE"?
	A "Defense and Intelligence" conference, organized by RPR deputy Pierre Pascallon, took place at the Senate in Paris on 26 October. (...) [ 468 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
COST-EFFICIENT INFORMERS?
	A detailed review of British police efficiency, carried out by the Audit Commission, has led to a number of recommendations which will be outlined when the official report is published later this month. (...) [ 250 words ] [ €5 ]

IRELAND
FIGHTING LONDON & THE IRA
	Responding to British criticism that Dublin should tighten-up its anti-paramilitary measures, Irish police commissioner Patrick Culligan recently claimed that the IRA has been forced to scale down its border campaign because of successful joint RUC/Garda operations. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
"LOGICAL" SECURITY REORGANIZATION
	The order in which the three concurrently running studies into overhauling security and classification in the United States are to produce their results has been stood on its head but given its "logical order" according to John T. (...) [ 383 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

SWITZERLAND
ZFU CONFERENCE ON IT OUTSOURCING
	The Zentrum für Unternehmungsführung AG (ZfU; fax 41 1 720 08 88) in Thalwil, Switzerland, is organizing the first internatioonal ZfV telecommunications conference on Outsourcing - An opportunity for improving competitive positioning? (...) [ 98 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
A NEW EUROPEAN ASPECT TO MILIPOL
	This eighth international exhibition of police, civil and military security equipment organized by Milipol in Paris (fax 33 1 42 80 14 38) will take place at Le Bourget on 23-26 November. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SPECIAL OPERATIONS AND LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT (SOLLIC) MEETING
	The American Defense Preparedness Association in Arlington, Virginia (fax 1 703 522 1885), is orgaizing the fifth annual SOLIC meeting in December in Washington. (...) [ 63 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	TROUBLE AT THE ARMAMENT OFFICE
		On 26 October the head of the OFEMA (French Office of Aeronautics Equipment), General Roger Pessidous, was fired and replaced by Prefect Ivan Barbot, former director of Interpol and former adviser to Prime Minister Edith Cresson for questions of intelligence. (...) [ 100 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	POLLARD ONCE AGAIN
		President Bill Clinton is due to decide this month whether to commute Jonathan Jay Pollard's life sentence for spying for Israel. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM
BRITISH-AMERICAN FIGHT
	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a new technology for detecting nitrogen-rich substances used for making bombs. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,5 ]

HUNGARY
HUNGARIAN NUCLEAR SPIN OFF
	Working for the Hungarian nuclear industry, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences developed a high-performance computer program for pattern recognition. (...) [ 80 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
DOWN TO NUTS AND BOLTS
	Evidence was presented recently before a Senate subcommittee showing that 62 percent of the nuts, bolts and screws in the U. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
MICRO-MACHINES TURN ON THE POWER
	A new technological battle is taking place over Micro-electromechanical Systems or MEMS which are devices that measure only a few microns. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DECRYPTION?
	AccessData in Orem, Utah, a company specialized in data recovery software, is in the process of releasing upgrades of several password recovery programs. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
NOT ALL THAT SECURE
	Because the high energy electromagntic pulse generated by an atomic explosion "blacks out" electronic communications equipment, fiber optic communications, which use laser light to transmit data, have been developed for military purposes. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SWITZERLAND
KELVAR AND SPECTRA SHIELD BATTLE ON
	Du Pont de Nemours International of Geneva, Switzerland, has developed a new series of Kelvar aramid fibres intended specifically for the production of a new range of lightweight, anti-fragmentation helmets. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €5 ]

	PAKISTAN
	DRUG CLEAN-UP ON THE BORDER
		Pakistan's interim government broke precedent last month by moving against the massive opium-exporting businesses in the rough-and-ready tribal region bordering Afghanistan. (...) [ 257 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	DEA CATCHES ITS OWN
		Rene DeLaCova, the DEA agent who placed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega under arrest, is now under investigation for stealing money during anti-narcotics operations. (...) [ 59 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	LIBYA
	AN ALGERIAN BASE FOR OPPOSITION
		According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter, representatives of the three major factions in the Libyan opposition met on 14-15 October in Algiers. (...) [ 269 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	HIGH-TECH CIPHERS FOR SALE?
		On 4 November the General Accounting Office released its report Communications Privacy: Federal Policy and Actions (GAO/OSI-94-2), prepared by the Office of Special Investigations for Congressman Jack Brooks, chairman of the House's Committee on the Judiciary. (...) [ 212 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	SETTLING AN OLD SCORE?
		The former KGB head of counter-intelligence at the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Major General Oleg Kalugin (I.N. n. 151) was detained by Special Branch detectives when he arrived at Heathrow airport on 30 October and held in police custody for 24 hours. (...) [ 354 words ] [ €5 ]