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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

The U.S. Departments of Treasury and Energy are emerging as ever-more important players alongside the traditional intelligence services in identifying and tracking down terrorist organizations and their state backers as well as fighting the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD). (...) [ 558 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

ARGENTINA
KGB EXPERTS TO THE RESCUE
	The Argentine government has decided to build up its intelligence-gathering capability following bloody attacks against the Israeli embassy in 1992 and on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires last summer. (...) [ 71 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
LAYOFFS AT GCHQ
	At least 500 jobs will be eliminated at the GCHQ SIGINT base because of government belt-tightening. GCHQ bosses hope the layoffs can be achieved through natural attrition rather than outright dismissals, as was the case with the "thinning out" of 200 positions over the past 18 months. (...) [ 238 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

NETHERLANDS
A. VAN LEEUWEN
	Head of the security service Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) for the past six years (IN 157), A. van Leeuwen has been named attorney general for The Hague and chief of the public prosecutor's office. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

SYRIA
MOHAMED EL-KHOULY
	General Mohamed el-Khouly, who won back his job as chief of the Syrian Air Force's intelligence service last month after being ousted in 1989, was at last able to savour his revenge: (...) [ 243 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
ARLEN SPECTER/LARRY COMBEST
	Sen. Arlen Specter is expected to chair the Senate intelligence committee in the new Republican-dominated Congress. The 64-year-old Specter, from Pennsylvania, is one of the few remaining "moderate" republicans on Capitol Hill. (...) [ 274 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR RIGA
	Few volunteers have stepped forward to fill positions recently created by the DGSE in the countries of former East Europe. (...) [ 69 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
HOW MANY DIVISIONS DO THE POLICE HAVE?
	With the French police services reeling from one reform to another there is good cause to read "La Police, Combien de Divisions? (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ISRAEL/MOROCCO
NEW MOSSAD STATION IN CASABLANCA
	Mossad is reported to have set up a permanent station in Casablanca last summer, injecting fresh impetus into security cooperation between Israel and Morocco. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SYRIA
ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES TIGHTENED
	Recent shakeups in Syria's intelligence and security system appear to indicate Damascus fears Iranian retaliation in the event of a clash in Lebanon between Syrian troups and Hezbollah militia (IN 251). (...) [ 122 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
OPENING UP THE ARCHIVES
	Despite reports that President Clinton's attempts to declassify milllions of pages of documents had been thwarted, the president signed an executive order on Nov. (...) [ 238 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
INTERDICTION TEAMS IN TRAINING
	Special operations units from the U.S. Army and Air Force have joined ranks with the Department of Energy's Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) in recent months to conduct exercises on interdicting weapons of mass destruction. (...) [ 311 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5 BOSS VETOES SINGLE AGENCY
	A proposal for a single national agency to fight terrorism and serious crime was slammed as "misplaced" by MI5 director Stella Rimington during a City of London police conference on "intelligence, security and the law" on Nov. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €5 ]

CANADA
ENVIRONMENT AND INTELLIGENCE
	Like the U.S., Canada is thinking of bringing risks tied to the environment into the scope of its intelligence service. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

CHINA
MAJOR CHINA SHOW
	Glahe International is organizing an exhibition entitled Defence Electronics China 95 at the International Exhibition Center in Beijing on Jan. (...) [ 53 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ITALY
REE COURSE OFFERED
	F Eurimage and the European Space Agency's European Space Research Institute are laying on a free European remote sensing satellite synthetic aperture radar training course in Italy on Dec. (...) [ 49 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
TACKLING DEFENCE INDUSTRY PROBLEMS
	Euroforum is organizing a seminar on Reshaping Business Strategies in the Defence Industry at the Maison des Centraliens in Paris on Jan. (...) [ 53 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
DEBATE WITH THREE EXPERTS
	The Centre d'Analyse sur la Sécurité Européene (CASE) is organizing a debate in Paris on Nov. (...) [ 66 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
SUMMING UP 1994
	The Paris-based European Institute for Defence and Security will discuss major geo-political events in 1994 and lay down some pointers for the future at a conference on Dec. (...) [ 85 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	LEBANON
	KIDNAP ATTEMPT FOILED
		In all likelihood the CIA was behind an abortive attempt to kidnap Hassan Azzeddine, the man in charge of Hezbollah's international relations, in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Oct. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €5 ]

	ISRAEL
	SEEKING AN INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY
		Yassar Arafat's inability to define an efficient security policy has driven a further wedge into policy differences between the three Israeli intelligence services. (...) [ 248 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
TAMPER-PROOF CHECKS
	Using an ink produced by Dataproducts, an affiliate of Japan's Hitachi group, the French company Safe has just marketed an inking process that leaves an idelible imprint on both sides of paper. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
OFTWARE SALE BY SATELLITE
	S. IBM Corp. and Hughes Network Systems in the U.S. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SYNTHETIC SEA ANIMAL
	Anyone determined to hunt for mines or count fish without getting wet merely needs to put a snorkel on an unmanned remote-controlled submersible, stand back and let a synthetic cetacean known as Dolphin do the work. (...) [ 155 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
INVISIBLE LOCKS
	Following six years of research the small French company VECAS has developed an invisible lock which it has named HSI. (...) [ 99 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MINATURE-SCALE MONITORS
	Although British forces are equipped with hand-held chemical weapons monitors, the detection of biological agents still requires heavy and unwieldy equipment. (...) [ 102 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW POLICE COMPUTER WINS NOD
	Britain's home secretary, Michael Howard, has given the green light to a new police computer system that will contain electronic analysis and information on fingerprints, DNA samples, criminal records and details of serious crime. (...) [ 197 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
QUESTIONS ABOUT NEW AIRLIFTER
	The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) claims the American air force has greatly overestimated the number of airfields in the world that can be used by the new McDonnell-Douglas C-17 cargo plane. (...) [ 246 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE/TURKEY
	ANTI-FRENCH ATTACKS FEARED
		French anti-terrorist services, which have been particularly jittery in recent weeks (because of the current trial of Shapour Baktiar's killers in Paris and spillovers from the Algerian crisis in France) consider there is a strong danger of anti-French attacks in Turkey. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	IRAN
	LONG LIVE THE BOYCOTT
		Although the United States keeps after its allies to reduce their trade with Iran, statistics issued by the Department of Commerce show that American firms are selling over $4 billion worth of goods annually to Tehran. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	THROWING MONEY INTO ANTI-DRUG FIGHT
		The U.S. government has just pronounced Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to be zones with "intense drug traffic. (...) [ 39 words ] [ FREE ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	THE LESLIE ASPIN LEGEND
		A book published in New York last month has shed fresh light on the career of Leslie Aspin, former MI6 and CIA agent, and claims the overlooked spy whose career in Ireland, Africa and the Middle East was outlined by Intelligence Newsletter in 1989 (No. (...) [ 377 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST SWOOP
		In dismantling a major network that provided military and financial backing for Islamist extremists in Algeria on Nov. 7, Jean-Pierre Pochon, who was named head of Renseignements Généraux de la Préfecture de Police de Paris (RGPP) in July, carried out what experts described as a show-case operation. (...) [ 275 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	FACELIFT FOR "PIRATE"
		France's Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (SGDN), an intelligence service that answers to the prime minister, plans a major shakeup next year in the PIRATOX plan aimed at heading off or combatting biological or chemical terrorism. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	CLINTON TURNS DOWN RABIN
		During his Middle East tour last month President Bill Clinton formally turned down a request by Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin to intervene with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to see that they stopped financing fundamentalist movements. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	THE ART OF WASTING ONE'S TIME
		For the first time in France an intelligence expert has put his experience and thoughts on business intelligence on paper. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	HAMAS LED FROM US?
		FBI counter-intelligence, Treasury agents and British intelligence are all now persuaded that radical fundamentalist groups have shifted their command and financial centers to the United States and Britain. (...) [ 320 words ] [ €5 ]