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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

Many high-level officials from the National Security Agency turned up at the latest seminar staged in Washington by Open Sources Solutions, the company headed by Robert Steele which has worked in recent years to encourage intelligence services to use open sources. (...) [ 506 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE
	On the face of it, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent Richard Horn is suing a State Department official and a CIA station chief for damages because they expelled him from what he considered his career's best job as DEA's country attache for Burma in 1993. (...) [ 314 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
MUSICAL CHAIRS IN SPRING
	Intelligence circles were predicting before the Oct. 16 general election that if the governing Christian Democrat-Liberal coalition returned to power the head of BND, Konrad Porzner, would probably be replaced by Eckart Werthebach, current chairman of BfV in Cologne. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WHO'S WHO

IRAN
GEN. ABDULLAH NAJAFI
	The guide of the Islamic revolution, Ayatolla Ali Khamenei, commander in chief of the country's armed forces, has just named General Abdullah Najafi, who up to now has been the armed forces chief-of-staff, as head of the military intelligence service. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MICHAEL CHARLES OATLEY
	A former MI6 agent who resigned in 1991 to join the international financial investigators Kroll Associates, Michael Charles Oatley, (IN 236), may be called to give evidence when the case "Kroll versus Calvi" comes before a New York court shortly. (...) [ 215 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
GEN. CHRISTIAN QUESNOT
	The leading contender to succeed admiral Jacques Lanxade as French armed forces chief-of-staff next September, Gen. Christian Quesnot, who is presently the chief military aide to president Francois Mitterrand, is facing a lot of opposition in his quest for the post. (...) [ 236 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
EX-AMBASSADOR SEES TO PREMIER'S SECURITY
	Col. Johny Abdo, former head of the Lebanese army's intelligence service (1976-82) and then ambassador in Berne and Paris, has become security advisor to prime minister Rafic Hariri. (...) [ 46 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ISRAEL
PROBLEMS WITH SPECIAL DRUZE UNITS
	In early November Israeli soldiers of Druze-origin who belong to a special unit assigned to infiltration missions in the occupied territories and regions under PLO administration refused to obey orders. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
SEEKING OPERATIONAL ROLE FOR NCIS
	Senior British police officials want to see the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) given an operational role as a way of fending off MI5 encroachment on police anti-drugs and organized crime work. (...) [ 295 words ] [ €5 ]

WEST EUROPE
STALEMATE ON EUROPOL
	A draft accord on setting up Europol stands virtually no chance of being signed by year's end as originally planned because of two major snags: (...) [ 349 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
RISE IN STATUS FOR RG
	Interior minister Charles Pasqua has handed the French police intelligence service Renseignement Generaux (RG) a promotion which it had been pointedly seeking for some months: (...) [ 516 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

RUSSIA
FIRST MOSCOW SHOW
	ITE Exhibitions & Conferences in London is organizing Moscow's first International Protection, Fire Safety & Security Show, MIPS'95, at the International Exhibition Center in the Russian capital on March 22-25. (...) [ 80 words ] [ €1,5 ]

IRAQ
IRAQ TWO YEARS ON
	Jean Elleinstein and France's Centre d'Etudes et de Reflexion (CER) is organizing a breakfast in Paris on Dec. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SWEDEN
MAJOR SECURITY SHOW
	Sollentuna Massan is organizing Polis 95, Scandinavia's biggest exhibition devoted to protection and security, in Stockholm between April 6-9. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
COMPUTER AND NETWORK SECURITY
	The European Convention on Security and Detection is staging an ECOS 95 show at Brighton in the U. (...) [ 66 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES/ISRAEL
	LEGAL BRAKE ON FUNDING
		As with drug traffickers, the fight against Islamic fundamentalist movements now focusses on rooting out their international financial networks. Acting on behalf of prime minister Itzak Rabin, Israel's police minister, Moshe Shahal, reached a "historic" agreement with the chief of Scotland Yard during a visit to London on Nov. (...) [ 243 words ] [ €5 ]

	ARGENTINA/IRAN
	SIDE JOINS THE FRAY
		Argentine president Carlos Saul Menem recently revealed that his foreign intelligence agency SIDE had set up an elite investigation unit to track down the terrorists behind the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires on July 18 that claimed 104 lives. (...) [ 536 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
AT&T CLOSING IN ON HACKERS
	The U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has set up a two-man investigative team to discreetly root out computer hackers who lurk in telephone system. (...) [ 118 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
SCIENTIFIC MONITORING SYSTEM
	At the bidding of France's Centre de Documentation de l'Armement (CEDOCAR) and the Secrétariat Générale de la Defense Nationale (SGDN), several French research labs (including the Centre de Recherche Retrospective de Marseille and the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) have developed a "bibliometric station" named Atlas (the French acronym for Atelier Logiciel pour l'Analyse de l'Information Stratégique). (...) [ 182 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
MONTHLY PUBLICATION LAUNCHED
	The French company Protexarms owned by Andrea Brignone which specializes in security questions pertaining chiefly to mainframe computer systems has just launched a monthly publication entitled "Strategies et Information. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SEALS GET NEW PATROL SHIP
	The U.S. Navy's special warfare units — primarily SEAL teams — have taken delivery of a new special operations craft, a Cyclone-class patrol ship (PC), that has a top speed of over 35 knots and a 2,000 nautical mile/10-day independent travel range. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR LAB CONVERTS TO CIVIL BUSINESS
	Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is putting its newly-expanded primary standards laboratory to work for private industry, breaking with the past when it operated exclusively in the nuclear weapons industry. (...) [ 102 words ] [ €1,5 ]

JAPAN
MULTI-PURPOSE THERMAL IMAGER
	Long reserved for military use, thermal imagers providing excellent vision at night or in bad weather are making their appearance on the civil security market. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	KIDS UNDER STRATCO?
		A recent report by France's Comptroller General of the Armed Forces has taken STRATCO, affiliate of Defense Conseil International (formerly COGEPAG), to task for its lack of profitability and even suggests that it be disbanded. (...) [ 125 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EGYPT/LIBYA
	MAJOR BREACH OF ARMS EMBARGO
		One of the reasons for this week's visit to Washington by Oussama el-Baz, advisor to president Hosni Mubarak, has been to soothe American tempers over dubious aspects in relations between Egypt and Libya. (...) [ 177 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	NETHERLANDS
	COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE
		Erwin McDonald, a 43-year-old businessman of Surinamese/Dutch origin whose body was found on Oct. 17 at the Brokopondo dam south of the Surinam capital of Paramaribo, served as the chief middleman between a number of foreign intelligence agencies and Surinam's Junglecommando before his murder, according to Intelligence Newsletter sources. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	HARDER GUARD ON SOFT TARGETS
		Over 600 buildings used by Britain's 300,000-strong Jewish community such as synagogues, schools and community halls are "potential targets" for Middle East terrorist outfits opposed to the Palestinian/Israeli peace accord like Hamas and Hezbollah, according to assistant commissioner David Veness, head of SO13, Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €5 ]

	EGYPT
	ARMY FEARS CONTAGION
		Egyptian defence minister Gen. Mohamed Hussein Tantawi dug in his heels against direct action by the armed forces in the struggle against Islamist fundamentalists when he met in secret on Nov. (...) [ 476 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	THE SUPER TERRORISM AGE
		The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) forms the most dangerous threat to the post-Cold War world, according to top military and intelligence officials from the U. (...) [ 555 words ] [ €5 ]