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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED KINGDOM

POLISH IMBROGLIO

Senior Polish intelligence and security officials are "less than satisfied" with the outcome of a "sting operation" carried out in cooperation with the British Secret Service (MI6) which led to the interception of an alleged Ulster Loyalist arms shipment on 24 November 1993. (...) [ 894 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

CZECH REPUBLIC
WORK AND MONEY FOR THE BIS
	Stanislav Devaty, director of the Bezpecnostni a Informacni Sluzba (BIS) counter-espionage service, recently obtained parliamentary approval for his service's independent and increased budget of half a billion Czech crowns ($20,000,000). (...) [ 210 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
LAST WORLD TRADE CENTER CASUALITY
	James M. Fox, special agent in charge of the FBI's New York office, finished off the last three weeks of a distinguished 31-year career on administrative leave. (...) [ 538 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
CHARLES B. CURTIS
	Charles B. Curtis, the Clinton administration's nominee for Under Secretary of Energy, is to manage the Department of Energy's science and technology programs and its weapons and waste clean up programs. (...) [ 166 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
MANFRED KANTHER
	Germany interior minister Manfred Kanther, a Christian Democrat (CDU), is causing trouble for his Free Democrat (FDP) coalition partners. He recently released a list of eight conditions for eavesdropping in apartments and bedrooms, the most intimate sphere of private life. (...) [ 182 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
ALBERT RAES
	Albert Raes, the former director of the Sûreté d'Etat from 1977 to 1990, whose request for reinstatement was rejected by Justice minister Melchior Wathelet last October (I. (...) [ 251 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
YITZHAK HOFI
	Yitzhak Hofi, who served as head of Mossad from 1974 to 1982 and former army intelligence chief of the Dov Tamari special unit, resigned recently from his position as chair of the board of Tadiran, the Israeli military electronics maker which he had headed since 1991. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SECURITY REORGANIZATION ON TRACK
	The "logical" security reorganization likely to result from three concurrently running studies in the United States, as Intelligence Newsletter suggested would be the case in November (I. (...) [ 187 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
TURNING OLD STASI OFFICIALS
	After five week in coercive custody, the former director of Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA) foreign intelligence of the East German Stasi, General Werner Großmann (retired), agreed to testify before a Berlin court. (...) [ 293 words ] [ €5 ]

NETHERLANDS
BVD HUNTS A STRANGE RMA
	The Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) has begun a low-key investigation into the unknown Revolutionary Marxist Alliance (RMA) which has threatened to "eliminate certain individuals" associated with far right organizations. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
GERMAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
	A recent French parliamentary report drawn up by MP Alain Moyne-Bressand furnishes a detailed description of the new European Corps (Eurokorps in German). (...) [ 166 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
GLOBALIZATION AGAINST PARCELLIZATION
	In a 6 January speech in Paris Claude Silberzahn, who directed DGSE foreign intelligence for four years until last June, delivered a lecture to members of the Centre des Hautes Etudes sur l'Afrique et l'Asie Moderne (CHEAM). (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
LIVERMORE'S SECRET PRIZE
	One of the United States' two nuclear weapons centers, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is boasting that one of its teams won the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion late last year from the CIA and the NSA. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
NEW POST OFFICE SECURITY SERVICES
	Late last year the Russian communications ministry created two new Post Office security services. (...) [ 80 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY CONFERENCE
	The Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ, fax 1 312 413 0458) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is organizing an international conference on Law Enforcement and Military Operations: (...) [ 106 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
EUROPEAN SECURITY TECHNOLOGY SHOW
	ADI Communication is organizing this year's Top Security'94 European show of technology in anti-theft, anti-intrusion, video surveillance, access control, domestic security, alarms and guard services. (...) [ 88 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CHINA
A VISIT FOR INFORMATION SECURITY PROFESSIONALS
	According to Privacy and Security 2001 newsletter from Sterling, Virginia, information security professionals are being invited to visit with their Chinese counterparts next April during a two-week visit. (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	OSIRIS WITH THE GERMANS?
		France should launch its first military optical satellite Helios 1 next October. However, French military officials are currently very sceptical concerning the possibility of orbiting the Osiris radar surveillance satellite, similar to the American Lacrosse, in the next ten years. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	USAF TO ORBIT A SAND PILE?
		Later this year the first of the new generation Milstar military communications satellites should go into orbit with one ton of sand in it. (...) [ 204 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
A STICKY CLEAN-UP JOB
	Originally developed to stop and hold terrorists who manage to break into a nuclear storehouse, sticky foam is one of the only nonlethal high technology weapons development for the military that has been shared with law enforcement agencies. (...) [ 104 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
EAVESDROPPING DETECTION HIT PARADE
	Despite its often pointed criticism of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) for lack of professionalism and experience, Ross Engineering, Inc. (...) [ 202 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
RUNNING DOWN SCUDS WITH LIDARS
	A lidar or laser detection and ranging device (I.N. n. 206) functions like a radar based on light. It sends out a strong, concentrated beam of laser light and analyzes the light that is reflected back. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
REVERSE X-RAYS BEATING NEUTRON SCANNERS?
	The reverse geometry X-ray (RGX) system developed by Digiray Corp. of San Ramon, California (I.N. n. 224), produces far more detailed images than classic X-ray systems and are even capable of detecting Glock plastic handguns. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
USING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
	Late last year Moscow police listed as a mafia killing the death of a leading businessman due to exposure to highly radioactive material. (...) [ 109 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
AMERICAN SPY PLANE READY
	A former Boeing 707-type military weather reconnaissance jet, a OC-135B, has now been fitted out with the surveillance cameras and equipment needed to convert it into the American Open Skies Treaty aircraft. (...) [ 100 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
PASSIVE, UNPOWERED FIBER OPTIC CABLE
	In France Salies SA (fax 33 1 69 20 36 04) and Riviera Consulting (fax 33 93 81 90 80) are marketing the Poly Optical Optiview plastic fiber optic cable. (...) [ 85 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	FBI & NSA PLAYED WITH CONGRESS?
		According to internal FBI documents obtained in December through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), there was absolutely no basis for the FBI's campaign to get Congress to pass legislation imposing secret "back doors" on modern digital telecommunications equipment to permit government eavesdropping. (...) [ 218 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	ISLAMIC RADICALS ON THE RISE?
		According to Intelligence Newsletter law enforcement sources, "over 5,000 Islamic sympathizers showed up for a private rally in Detroit, Michigan, on 24-29 December. (...) [ 233 words ] [ €5 ]

	BELGIUM
	COOLS/AGUSTA GOES TO PARLIAMENT
		The investigation into the murder of Socialist Party (PS) politician André Cools in July 1991 and links with the government's decision eighteen months earlier to purchase 46 military helicopters from the Italian firm Agusta (I. (...) [ 457 words ] [ €5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	A "BOTCHED" OPERATION?
		Military intelligence director Peter Regli is in hot water because of the Swiss press' recent discovery of his link to an anonymous dumping of radioactive uranium on a public road. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

	SLOVAKIA
	RUSSIAN TREATY FEARS
		The aggressive "Mother Russia" political stance and recent electoral victory of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Russia risk indirectly causing the dismissal of Slovak defense minister General Imrich Andrejcak. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	THE RULE OF THE "8 D'S"
		During preparatory meetings leading up to the NATO 10-11 January summit in Brussels, senior Pentagon officials visited major European capitals and attempted to explain the new American concept of the fight against arms proliferation. (...) [ 415 words ] [ €5 ]

	GERMANY/UNITED STATES
	ALLIES AGAINST NEO-NAZIS
		The international press noted FBI Director Louis Freeh's trip to Sicily last month to back anti-mafia efforts but said little of his meeting in Germany with Hans-Ludwig Zachert and other high BKA officials. (...) [ 91 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	CUBA
	DISCREET "CAPITALIST" SUPPORT?
		According to specialized observers, the U.S. is not prosecuting American firms that do big business with Cuba through their foreign subsidiaries. (...) [ 91 words ] [ €1,5 ]