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SPOTLIGHT

FRANCE

DIFFICULT RG REORGANIZATION

The major shake-up of the Renseignements Généraux (RG) political intelligence police announced with great fanfare this summer by French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua has encountered serious problems. During its October meeting, the ministry's Commission Technique Paritaire (CTP), which includes labor union representatives and should by law give its opinion concerning all changes in structure, refused to approve the government's decree to re-organized the RG. (...) [ 951 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

CZECH REPUBLIC
ANOTHER POLICE BOSS
	On 1 November Stanislav Novotny will cease to be head of the Czech police and his replacement has not yet been found. (...) [ 104 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI TO GO AFTER COMPUTER NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS?
	Heralded as a major contribution to democratic government and freedom of expression, the new "Information Superhighway" and all computer network communications are now targeted by the FBI. (...) [ 98 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
MICHAEL BETTANEY
	Michael Bettaney, the former MI5 officer convicted in April 1984 and jailed for 23 years for attempting to sell MI5's counterespionage line-up to the KGB, is due for release from jail soon. (...) [ 255 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/PAKISTAN
SWALEH NAQVI
	Swaleh Naqvi, international financier of Pakistani origin and a leading figure of the BCCI, was sentenced to 11 years and three months imprisonment on 19 October by a federal court in Washington. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €5 ]

UKRAINE
VALERY SHMAROV
	Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma appointed high-level military technical and industrial specialist Vlery Shmarov minister of defense last month. Kuchma's choice for a successor to General Vitali Radetsky was a big surprise for many observers, not least because Shmarov is the first civilian to become defense minister in the Commonwealth of Independent States. (...) [ 150 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
DMITRY KHOLODOV
	Investigative journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who had published extensively on the major corruption in the Western Army Group (ZGV), iquestion, was killed by a suitcase bomb on 17 October. (...) [ 155 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
REBUILDING THE SPY COMMUNITY
	At the end of last week the in-depth re-organization of the Belgian intelligence community took another step forward with the official presentation of the "Comité R's ("R" for "renseignement" or intelligence) first annual report. (...) [ 471 words ] [ €5 ]

EAST EUROPE
A WAVE OF REPLACEMENTS AT THE TOP
	The situation in the Czech Republic is not unique since there has been a wave of replacements of top security officials, including interior ministers, in countries of the former Soviet Union (in mid-October in Azerbaijan and late-October in Latvia). (...) [ 84 words ] [ €1,5 ]

NETHERLANDS
IRT "DISASTER" STILL NOT OVER
	The Van Traa parliamentary commission was set up in June 1994 to investigate the IRT "disaster" which concerned the service's questionable anti-drug tactics, in-fighting with other police forces and resulted in two ministers leaving the government (I. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €5 ]

SOUTH AFRICA
TWO NEW SERVICES REORGANIZED
	Putting an end to a long dispute (I.N. n. 250), the Justice Minister, Dullah Omar, present a bill for the re-organization of the South African civilian intelligence services on 21 October in Cap Town. (...) [ 271 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
SUN USER GROUP SYMPOSIUM
	The Sun User Group is organizing its annual technical symposium on the theme "UNIX and the Law. (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SECURITY SYSTEMS AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
	The National Military Intelligence Association (9200 Centerway Road, Gaitherburg, Maryland 20879) is organizing a one-day conference on Defense Intelligence Status 1994. (...) [ 59 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
CONTINUING LSC SECURITY MEETINGS
	The London School of Economics and Political Science's Computer Security Research Center (csrc@lse. (...) [ 80 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	GERMANY
	STASI SPOILS PDS SUCCESS
		Germany's parliamentary election on 16 October was a great success for the successor to East Germany's former Communist Party, the PDS. (...) [ 288 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	PROS & CONS OF NIF LASER CENTER
		Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary announced on 21 October that she had selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the futuristic National Ignition Facility (NIF), a billion-dollar 192-laser complex that will allow the analysis of nuclear explosions and may, according to its supporters, provide crucial breakthroughs in the development of fusion reactors. (...) [ 334 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
GETTING STARTED
	J. Held's recently published Top Secret Data Encryption Techniques (SAMS Publishing, Carmel, IN, isbn 00 672 30293 4) provides not only a good introduction to encryption, but also computer source codes in BASIC for those who ready want to get to work. (...) [ 81 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FLYING RELAY STATION
	Skysat Communications Network Corp. of New York is developing a high-tech high-flying drone to act as a "local" communications satellite. (...) [ 99 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
LASER DETECTION DEVICE
	Developed by the American company Kaman Aerospace and put into emergency service against mines at sea during the Gulf War, Magic Lantern is a powerful laser with a reflected signal analysis system. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CENTRAL AMERICA
LOW-TECH STEALTH
	Drug traffickers in the Caribbean have been using small wooden tourist submarines to avoid sonar and radar detection. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
COMMERCIAL HIGH TECH DATA FOR SPIES
	American intelligence services are using a robotic high-speed data processing system manufactured by Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) of Lousiville, Colorado, which also introduced the first commercially-viable robotic tape processing unit in 1987. (...) [ 190 words ] [ €5 ]

ASIA/UNITED STATES
HIGH TECH FRAUD IN CPUS
	The central processing unit (CPU) is the real heart of a computer and largely determines its performance in terms of speed and capacity. (...) [ 208 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
"CIA" INFO MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
	"CIA" is the evocative initials for Competitive Intelligence Agent, an information management software produced by CIA Software of Alameda, California (tel 1 510 521 4375; email cia@hooked. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	NEW ANTI-FRAUD DOLLARS ARE READY?
		According to The Lyke Report in Glenview, Illinois, which is specialized in finance and currency issues, former director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and now executive director of the American Numismatic Association, Robert Leuver believes new high tech anti-counterfeit dollars have already been printed and distributed to twelve Federal Reserve Banks. (...) [ 105 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EAST EUROPE
	RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL?
		Russian President Boris Yeltsin promised a month ago to withdraw the 14th Army Corp from Transnistria where it's "keeping the peace" between the Ukraine, Romania and Moldovia. (...) [ 61 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE/LEBANON
	SAMIR GEAGEA'S "SURPRISES" AGAINST THOSE OF CARLOS
		The former chief of the Lebanese Forces (LF) and Christian leader Samir Geagea, has been carefully leaking information to the Arab press over the past few weeks in concerning his past associations with foreign powers. (...) [ 199 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES/ITALY
	"ONIG" CONNECTION DISMANTLED
		Over the last month Italian and American law enforcement services have dismantled an important international network of Italian and Colombian drug traffickers. (...) [ 233 words ] [ €5 ]

	GERMANY
	TERRORIST HOUSE CLEANING
		The recent arrest in Norway of Soraya Ansari - charged with taking part in the legendary 1977 hijacking to Mogadishu of a Lufthansa aircraft - marks the end of a series of cases that German anti-terrorism specialists have been pursuing for almost two decades. (...) [ 302 words ] [ €5 ]

	CENTRAL AMERICA
	DISAPPEARANCES AND DEALINGS
		On 13 October a professional assassin used an infrared night vision scope and a machine-pistol to shoot dead Saint Kitts' chief detective, Superintendent Jude Matthews in the capital Basseterre. (...) [ 252 words ] [ €5 ]

	SYRIA
	THREE NOS AND ONE YES
		During his three-hours meeting on 27 October in Damascus with Hafez al-Assad, Bill Clinton only obtained what he wanted on one problem and rebuffed on three others. (...) [ 549 words ] [ €5 ]

	POLAND
	ANOTHER STATE SECRECY LAW REJECTED
		In August the Polish Sejm, after its second reading of the State Security Bill, rejected it and sent it back to committee (I. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	RUSSIA
	SOLDIERS GETTING DOWN TO "BRASS TACKS."
		A recently declassified opinion poll conducted earlier this year shows that almost 40 percent of the military voted for the extreme right Liberal Democratic Party. (...) [ 59 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	IRELAND
	ROUNDING-UP THE "OUTLAWS"
		The Irish Garda launched a nationwide operation on 22 October to curtail the activities of militant non-IRA Republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and the small but belligerent Republican Sinn Fein (RSF). (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]