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SPOTLIGHT

MIDDLE EAST

GULF: JOINT ARMY OR A "SHIELD"?

The absence of the Saudi defense minister, Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz, from a meeting of Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) defence ministers in Abu Dhabi between 10-12 November has confirmed the Saudi regime's opposition to any process leading to the creation of a unified, 100,000-strong Gulf army. (...) [ 1052 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
SPY BUDGET CUTS PUSH DRONES
	As the $28 billion intelligence budget that emerged following a compromise between the House and the Senate awaits President Bill Clinton's signature, major changes are already underway. (...) [ 398 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
DIS REPORTS & DIVERSIFIES
	Although no date has been given and no public announcement made, the Defense Investigative Service (DIS), the Pentagon's nationwide investigative police and security service, has prepared and issued its fiscal 1992 report to government authorities, according to the National Security Institute's current Advisory newsletter. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES/IRELAND
GEORGE DEMPSEY
	The questionable legacy of George Dempsey, former CIA Chief of Station, Dublin, lives on. His successor has been instructed to "tone down comment" and rebuild and cultivate links with the Irish political establishment after Dempsey's passage in Ireland. (...) [ 249 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
JEAN-MARIE BONTHOUS
	Jean-Marie Bonthous has been living in the United States for 15 years where he founded JMB International, a New York-based company specialized in economic intelligence and strategic management. (...) [ 208 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
AMINE AL-HINDI
	Officially responsible for national security within the PLO, Amine al-Hindi is one of three members of a commission also including Abdullah al-Ifrangi, PLO representative in Bonn, and Magid al-Agha, adviser to Yasser Arafat, which is interrogating the Mossad mole discovered inside the PLO last month, Adnan Yassine, as well as his son Hani. (...) [ 339 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
DOWNSCALING AT SECURITY MINISTRY?
	The Moscow daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta announced late last month that a sweeping reform of the Security Ministry had been decided along with a 40 percent reduction in personnel. (...) [ 57 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
HARD TIMES FOR TROOPS
	According to confidential official statistics, there were already 1,220 deaths among troops during the first eight months of 1993. (...) [ 77 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
UNDOING THATCHER AT GCHQ?
	London wants to avoid being publicly censured by the UN-sponsored International Labor Organization (ILO) as the first industrial democracy to breech the ILO's convention on freedom of association. (...) [ 71 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?
	Several months after it opened, the $50 million National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) is as isolated from the war on drugs as its location in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is from Washington some 300 kilometers awt. (...) [ 452 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NO FBI-DEA MERGER
	After very serious talk of incorporating all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) activities into the FBI, largely for reasons of cost efficiency and avoiding overlap, U. (...) [ 299 words ] [ €5 ]

NETHERLANDS
NEW BVD HEADQUARTERS
	The new Dfl. 76.3 million headquarters of the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) was officially inaugurtaed by the internal affairs minister, Ien Dales, on 10 November. (...) [ 374 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MS. RIMINGTON'S FIRST FIASCO
	Originally intended to start in late November, the trial of alleged Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) members Martin McMonagle and Liam Heffernan may not reach the courts because it reveals the first major fiasco of Stella Rimington's tenure as director of MI5. (...) [ 488 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
FIRST PUBLIC SPY BUDGET?
	Israel has for the first time allowed public - albeit vague - mention of the budget for its external and internal intelligence services, Mossad and Shin Bet. (...) [ 153 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
IIR ANTI-FRAUD SEMINAR
	The Institute for International Research at Boulogne Billancourt (fax 33 1 46 03 94 00) is organizing a seminar on Payment Fraud in Paris on 1-2 December. (...) [ 72 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
EUROPEAN ANTI-VIRUS CONFERENCE
	The European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) 1993 conference is being organized by S&S International Limited of Berkhamsted, England (fax 44 442 877 882), in Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England, on 1-3 December. (...) [ 68 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
COMPUTER SECURITY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE
	The Aerospace Computer Security Associates annual 1993 Computer Security Applications Conference is being organized by Mitre Corporation of McLean, Virginia (tel 1 703 883 5907), on 6-10 December in Orlando, Florida. (...) [ 55 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	ISRAEL
	RUSSIAN SPY HELD IN SECRET
		On 11 November, following a Supreme Court ruling lifting censorship on the case, the Israeli justice ministry confirmed that it has been secretly holding Roman Weisfeld in jail for the last five year after convicting him for passing military and political intelligence to the U. (...) [ 156 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	WILL COCOM HAVE A SUCCESSOR?
		The "high level" COCOM meeting which took place on 19 November near The Hague established 31 March 1994 as the date ending the existence of this Cold War organization. (...) [ 297 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

GERMANY/FRANCE
NEW CLIENTS FOR X400
	The whole world, especially the technical and scientific world but now also the intelligence community (I. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/RUSSIA
DIAMOND ANVILS FOR NUCLEAR TESTS?
	The recent moratorium on nuclear tests by the United States, France and Russia may seem surprising considering that the military are always developing new weapons to be tested. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. HIGH-TECH ANTI-DRUG SHOPPING LIST
	Earlier this month Lee Brown, head of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, told a law enforcement officers' meeting that he was counting on advanced technology in every part of his new drug control strategy presented last month. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
HIGH-TECH AT EIGHTH MILIPOL
	The eight Milipol international exhibition of police, civil and military equipment, which will take place at Le Bourget near Paris on 23-26 November, will be clearly European in nature with the presence for the first time of Interpol and official representatives of Italian, British and Spanish services. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
THE ELECTRONIC DOORMAN
	Mona Computing of Glasgow, Scotland, has developed Photocas, a computerized digital imagery system and data base with the ability of scanning a magnetic strip on ID cards and comparing the stored data with a real image of the individual. (...) [ 115 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
BETTER FUEL MILEAGE
	Hydrogen delivers more thrust kilo per kilo than any other fuel but it needs large and complicated storage tanks. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SLOVAKIA
	MIG 29S TO ERASE AN OLD DEBT
		The Slovak defense minister, General Imrich Andrejcak announced on 22 November in Bratislava that Slovakia was going to ask Russia for five MiG-29s to erase the debt of the Red Army. (...) [ 93 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	YEMEN
	NASCENT CIVIL WAR
		A large number of troops were positioned along the former border between the north and the south of Yemen from 17 to 20 November, particularly in the Yal, Kutuba, Ridfan and Al Daleh regions. (...) [ 686 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAN
	NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT SEIZED IN ITALY
		A police raid ordered by an Italian judge netted eight nuclear power plant vapor concentrators being exported by the company Ansaldo of Genoa. (...) [ 49 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	IRAN
	NO CZECH RADARS EITHER
		Oldrich Barak, director of the HTT Group which makes the Czech Tamara radar, announced in Prague on 18 November that his group had signed several contracts for radar systems with countries in the Middle East. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]