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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SEEKING SECOND WINDS

There's a good chance that within the next decade business intelligence will figure high on the curriculum of universities that teach management. For the moment, however, a major gap exists between intelligence experts who try to anticipate the future needs of companies and management who fail to understand the intelligence community or remain suspicious of it. (...) [ 868 words ] [ €7 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
DIRTY TRICKS ALLEGATION
	The current head of MI5, Stella Rimington, has again been accused of running a dirty tricks campaign to discredit the National Union of Miners during the protracted 1984/85 coal strike while she ran the security service's counter-subversion F2 branch in the mid-1980's. (...) [ 299 words ] [ €4 ]

AUSTRALIA
GIRDING FOR THE GAMES
	Australia has been brooding about security for the Sydney Olympic Games in the year 2000 since August, 1993--a full month before the International Olympic Committee awarded the event to the country. (...) [ 295 words ] [ €4 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
ISMA'IL SAWWAN
	Isma'il Sawwan, a 35-year-old Palestinian who worked for the Israeli intelligence service in Britain, was scheduled to be released from prison on Dec. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €4 ]

CHINA
QIHAO MIAO
	Deputy director of the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS), 47-year-old Qihao Miao counts among China's pioneers in business intelligence. (...) [ 195 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
GEORGE MITCHELL
	The former Democratic majority leader in the US Senate, George Mitchell has been named the Clinton administration's "peace envoy" and "special advisor" on Northern Ireland. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
GUY CAPUTO
	After a 25-year career in the U.S. Secret Service in which he rose to the rank of deputy director, Guy Caputo has joined the Energy Department as director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's office of investigations. (...) [ 151 words ] [ €4 ]

EGYPT
CIA BACKS THE "BROTHERS"
	During his visit last week to Egypt that took place in a highly charged diplomatic climate CIA director James Woolsey strongly "encouraged" president Hosni Mubarak to start talking with Egypt's Moslem Brotherhood. (...) [ 393 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
OSS BUILDS UP EURO NETWORK
	Already well established in the United States, Open Sources Solutions (OSS), founded by Robert Steele, is seeking actively to build up its network in Europe. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
WOOLSEY BELEAGUERED
	Former CIA director Robert Gates has been calling for dramatic staff cuts at the agency to produce what he calls a "leaner, more focussed and tougher" CIA. (...) [ 106 words ] [ €1,3 ]

CZECH REPUBLIC

	The former Czech Catholic dissident Vaclav Benda, aged 48, who founded the Christian Democrat party in 1990, has been named director of a new documentation and information center on crimes committed during the communist period. (...) [ 96 words ] [ €1,3 ]

RUSSIA
SECRECY BONUS
	A decree issued by the Russian government calls for a wage rise starting from Jan. (...) [ 55 words ] [ €1,3 ]

RUSSIA
YELTSIN BEEFS UP COUNTER-ESPIONAGE SERVICE
	President Boris Yeltsin has added 1,000 new officers to Russia's year-old, 76,000-strong Counterintelligence Service that investigates crime and treason as well as espionage. (...) [ 46 words ] [ €1,3 ]

SLOVAKIA
FBI LAYS ON TRAINING FOR SLOVAKS
	The FBI has sent a team to Bratislava to provide a two week course in law enforcement to Slovak police officials, according to the country's interior ministry. (...) [ 57 words ] [ €1,3 ]

ISRAEL
UPCOMING CHANGES
	Gen. Ury Saguy, boss of the Israeli military intelligence service Aman, is expected to be replaced by the end of the year. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Agenda

UNITED KINGDOM
BRITISH SECURITY SHOW
	Intruder alarms and closed circuit TV will be the main features at an exhibition organized by Securex at the Sandown exhibition center at Esher, Surrey, U. (...) [ 77 words ] [ €1,3 ]

FRANCE
MAJOR STRATEGIC SEMINAR
	France's Centre des Hautes Etudes de l'Armement is holding a seminar on Feb. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
OVER 30 COUNTRIES TO DISPLAY WARES
	The Idex '95 international defence exhibition at Abu Dhabi on March 19-23 will bring together exhibitors from 30 countries to what will be the largest military and naval exhibition of its kind ever staged in the Gulf. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €1,3 ]

EUROPE
FOCUS ON SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
	The 4th European security and risk management exhibition for business, industry and institutions known as TSB '95 (for Top Security Business 95) will be staged at the Parc des Expositions in Brussels between April 26-28. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Threat assessment

	AUSTRALIA
	ASIO TO SCREEN WOULD-BE AFGHAN IMMIGRANTS
		The government has announced that ASIO, the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, will screen immigration applications from prominent Afghans following revelations that an officer of the Khad, an Afghan intelligence service in the former Soviet-backed government, who had been responsible for the 1985 kidnapping of two Australians was living in Australia. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	NETHERLANDS
	RECORDS VANISH IN SOFTWARE HEIST
		Dutch Justice minister Winnie Sordrager has called for a top-level probe into a series of mysterious break-ins at the homes of senior justice officials in which computer software containing confidential information was stolen. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €4 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE

	A new system patented by the French company Wattelez provides an answer to problems linked to the protection of installations, particularly military bases. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,3 ]

GERMANY

	Germany's Geutebruck company has developed a system named SecuriDAB which synchronizes the recording of digital images with the withdrawal of bank bills from automatic tellers. (...) [ 100 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES

	To protect the 46 different sites at the Atlanta Olympic Games in July, 1996, the U. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
NSA GETS LEG-UP FROM HPCC
	Many experts are convinced the National Security Agency's main reason for climbing aboard the Clinton administrations's High Performance Computing and Communications initiative (HPCC) was to find faster ways of processing and automating the analyses of its signals collection. (...) [ 295 words ] [ €4 ]

FRANCE
DUAL FRANCO-RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY
	Over the past two years the French association Science et Defense has been discreetly pursuing the delicate task of promoting closer ties between the French and Russian scientific communities in the military sphere. (...) [ 311 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED KINGDOM

	The British company Trigon that specializes in designing and manufacturing security envelopes has just launched a new "tamper proof" system in its KeepSafe range that ensures the security of high value objects either in storage or in transit. (...) [ 78 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED STATES
	POSTAL SERVICE INFILTRATED BY CARTELS
		A report by the General Acounting Office (GAO) has suggested that increasing numbers of Postal Service workers are taking bribes from major drug cartels in return for letting narcotics travel through the U. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €4 ]

	UNITED STATES
	SURGE IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM FEARED
		American terrorism experts, including government counter-terrorist aides, are convinced that a particularly fierce form of fudamentalist Islamic violence will unfurl over the U. (...) [ 421 words ] [ €4 ]

	ISRAEL
	LIFTING NUCLEAR SECRECY?
		The issue of controlling and limiting weapons of mass destruction has taken a back seat to diplomatic maneuvers between Israel and its neighbors in recent months but it could well bounce back into the picture shortly. (...) [ 283 words ] [ €4 ]

	LEBANON
	MUSTAPHA AL-DIRANI'S DISCLOSURES
		According to Intelligence Newsletter sources, the debriefing of the Believers Resistance chief Mustapha al-Dirani who was kidnapped by Israeli commandos in a helicopter swoop on Lebanon in May was completed in mid-November. (...) [ 359 words ] [ €4 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	SHIFTING 2,000 MEN TO GAZA?
		The culture minister in the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Abd Raboo, has handed the French foreign ministry a letter from Yasser Arafat asking for French help in transferring 2,000 Palestinian soldiers by sea from camps in Southern Lebanon to the Gaza strip. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €4 ]

	AUSTRIA
	NEO NAZI ARMS DUMP DISCOVERED
		In raiding the homes of suspected neo-Nazi activists north of Vienna the Austrian anti-terrorist police found a fully-operational World War Two Soviet T-34 tank, an armored personnel carrier, a "substantial quantity" of assault rifles and pistols and 2. (...) [ 78 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED STATES
	WACKENHUT TAKES OVER IVORY COAST FIRM
		The Florida-based security company Wackenhut, which has gained attention for its trail-blazing management of prisons in the United States, has bought a 60% stake in SEGES, an Ivory Coast security firm. (...) [ 112 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED STATES
	KROLL BATTERED BUT UNBOWED
		The U.S. security and intelligence firm Kroll Associates is opening new offices in Moscow and Sydney and planning another two in Latin America despite a number of recent setbacks. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,3 ]