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SPOTLIGHT

GERMANY

INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

Like many other intelligence services the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is involved in a serious debate concerning possible future involvement in economic intelligence. According to an internal document signed by the BND operations chief, Volker Foertsch, the service should begin furnishing German companies with operational economic intelligence. (...) [ 928 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED NATIONS
GROUNDWORK FOR SPY SERVICE
	The groundwork for a United Nations intelligence service is under way. There has been discussion of developing such a service in the past but the UN has relied up until now on intelligence furnished by major developed nations, particularly the United States. (...) [ 442 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI BACK TO SCHOOL
	The FBI has established a senior-level Critical Incident Team and is training it in executive decision-making. The aim is to prevent a repeat of the long standoff at the Branch Davidian headquarters in Waco, Texas, with its tragic, fiery ending. (...) [ 234 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
ELJAY BOWRON
	Newly appointed Secret Service Director Eljay B. Bowron accompanied President Bill Clinton on his European trip this month. Bowron, 42, a native of Detroit, Michigan, holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Michigan State University and served on Detroit's police force before he joined the Secret Service in 1974. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
HUGH MICHAEL ROSE
	Lieutenant General Hugh Michael Rose was appointed on 5 January by the Ministry of Defence to replace Belgian General Francis Briquemont as commander of United Nations forces in Bosnia. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
PAUL-HENRI TROLLE
	Assistant director for property and housing at the Paris Préfecture de police for the last eight years, Prefect Paul-Henri Trollé was appointed director of administrative and financial affairs at DGSE foreign intelligence by the government on 12 January. (...) [ 197 words ] [ €5 ]

NETHERLANDS
ED VAN THIJN
	Ed van Thijn was Lord mayor of Amsterdam from 1983 until 14 January 1994 when he was appointed Internal Affairs Minister replacing Ien Dales (I. (...) [ 271 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
JSC PROMOTES ITSELF?
	The Joint Security Commission (JSC) established early last year by the CIA and the Pentagon, and one of the three concurrently-running studies of security reorganization (I. (...) [ 286 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
YET ANOTHER SPY NETWORK
	A policy change for the "Met" or Metropolitan Police, described as a "shift to 21st century policing," has been proposed by the head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Intelligence Branch, Commander John Grieve, and approved by Commissioner Paul Condon and the Yard's policy committee. (...) [ 423 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
PUSHING SCHENGEN AND EUROPOL
	Now that Europol has been installed in the former headquarters of the Dutch Centrale Recherche Informatiedienst (CRI) at 47 Raamweg, The Hague, the offices are being filled with personnel from the European Drugs Unit (EDU). (...) [ 341 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
NEW SHIN BET UNIT
	The Shin Bet internal security service has been allocated funds to create a new unit to care for and protect its Palestinian collaborators who are frightened of returning to the mini-Palestinian state. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SOUTH KOREA
A TIGHT SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS
	Kim Deok, boss of the South Korean foreign intelligence service, the National Security Planning (NSP) Agency, met with and shared a meal with Evgeni Primakov, head of the Russian SVR, during the latter's December visit to Seoul. (...) [ 102 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
NIGHT OPERATIONS MEETING
	The American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA, tel. 1 703 522 1820) is organizing its eleventh symposium and exhibition on night operations in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 7-10 February. (...) [ 86 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
ANALYTIC TOOLS AND SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGY
	The Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG) of the U. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SPAIN
SPANISH SECURITY SHOW
	The Ninth International Security Show is being organized in Juan Carlos I exhibition park in Madrid on 1-4 March. (...) [ 66 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	SAUDI ARABIA/FRANCE
	FAILURE AT RIYADH AND... LAAYOUNE
		In making a surprising "private trip" on 7 January to Laayoune, capital of former Spanish Western Sahara, French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua's unique objective was to meet his Saudi counter-part, Prince Nayef. (...) [ 254 words ] [ €5 ]

	BELGIUM
	AGUSTA/COOLS CASE MOVES FORWARD
		The Agusta/Cools case move forward (I.N. n. 232) with the recent decision by an 11-member Senate judicial committee to withdraw immunity from senators Guy Mathot and Guy Spitaels and revelations from Socialist Party (PS) official and friend of Andre Cools, Philippe Moureaux concerning BFR 15 million paid to the party. (...) [ 495 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
$75 DOOMSDAY AMPLIFER
	The American Milstar nuclear-war-resistant miliary satellite communications system didn't need any more bad publicity, but has obtained it with the revelation that one of its two Etremely High Frequency (EHF) Amplifiers was in the possession of a radio amateur. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
LIE DETECTORS UNDER REVIEW
	At long last the American intelligence community is going to investigate the reliability of lie detector or "polygraph" tests. European intelligence specialists, both Eastern and Western, have often criticized the U. (...) [ 244 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
WESTINGHOUSE BLIMP CERTIFIED
	Westinghouse's surveillance blimp called Sentinel 1000 was recently certified by the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) according to Tactical Technology in Washington DC. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €5 ]

NORTHERN IRELAND
THE IRA'S NEW TROJAN HORSE BOMB
	On 11 January, following the three-day Christmas cease-fire in Northern Ireland, the IRA used its first Trojan Horse bomb in an attempt to destroy the joint RUC/British Army base in Crossmaglen, a hard-line Republican market town in South Armagh about ten kilometers from the border with the Irish Republic. (...) [ 189 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
TECHNICAL DELAY FOR SIS
	The Schengan Information System is already suffering from political delays. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW RIVAL TECHNIQUE
	Most DNA fingerprinting is done with the DQ Alpha technique of looking for an individual's one of 21 possible combinations of DQ Alpha markers on strands of DNA. (...) [ 96 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FROM FORESTRY TO FOXHOLES
	A hand auger and an explosive charge for loosening soil were developed by the forestry industry for cheaply and quickly digging holes for planting young trees. (...) [ 114 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	IRAN
	NEW UKRAINIAN MISSILES
		According to an official Arab source, the Iranian Pasdarans received a dozen missiles with a range of 1,000 km in early January. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SYRIA
	SOFT LIGHTING
		The Clinton-Assad in Geneva began 15 minutes late because of a lighting problem. (...) [ 64 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	THE "8 D'S" AND INTELLIGENCE
		The Pentagon's new policy of counter-proliferation spelled out in "8 D's" (Dissuasion, Denial, Disarmament, Diplomatic pressure, Defusing, Deterrence, Destruction, Defense; I. (...) [ 288 words ] [ €5 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	SIMMERING PEACE PROPOSALS?
		The IRA has not formally rejected the Downing Street Declaration peace proposals, although the official security alternative - internment or joint RUC/Garda policing - doesn't please the IRA or even the official services. (...) [ 382 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	SECRET AGREEMENT IN GENEVA
		Sources close to negotiators in Geneva have told Intelligence Newsletter that the summit meeting there between Bill Clinton and Hafez el-Assad on 16 January was preceded by a high-level secret meeting approximately ten days previously. (...) [ 791 words ] [ €5 ]