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Issue no. 613 dated 11 march, 2010

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SPOTLIGHT

RUSSIA/FRANCE

From Russia with Love

Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, 47, is gravitating towards the centre stage of Franco-Russian relations following France’s sale of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships to the Russian Navy. The deal was officialised by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as Intelligence Online predicted two months ago (IOL 609), during Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to Paris on March 1.(...) [ 533 words ] [$9,5]

JORDAN
Mechaal al-Zobn

(...) [ 79 words ] [$1,8]
ISRAEL
Dave Kimche

(...) [ 114 words ] [$1,8]
IRAN
Hasan Kazemi-Qomi

(...) [ 81 words ] [$1,8]

Hackers' assault on software source codes

Source-codes of the world’s most widely used software are easily manipulated.(...) [ 305 words ] [$5,4]

Endgame, virus-buster

An American company maintains a global data base of computers infected by viruses. The purpose is to filter them but also, eventually, to manipulate them.(...) [ 389 words ] [$5,4]

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GRAY AREAS

IRAN

Pakistan hands over Iran's public enemy

The spectacular arrest of the head of the Sunni Baluch Army of God resulted from a deal between Pakistan’s and Iran’s secret services.(...) [ 358 words ] [$5,4]

RUSSIA

Orthodox Church spreads Kremlin’s word

The Kremlin supports the expansion of the Moscow patriarchate outside Russia. In exchange, the church is defending the regime.(...) [ 318 words ] [$5,4]

FRANCE/RUSSIA

Courting Russia’s far right

A far right political movement in France is forging links with Paris-based Russian nationalists, represented by organisations such as the Institut Democratique et de la Cooperation (IDC).(...) [ 172 words ] [$5,4]

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UNITED KINGDOM - GCHQ over the past year has had a new unit dedicated to monitoring Internet traffic, called(...) [ 75 words ] [$1,8]

GERMANY - The BND, whose Pullach interception centre was one of the most effective during the Cold War,(...) [ 85 words ] [$1,8]

FRANCE - Listening in A handful of French industrial groups are engaged in an all-out battle to win the contract(...) [ 82 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES - Hollywood loves Litvinenko Warner Bros and Sony are putting together competing film projects based on the assassination(...) [ 119 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED STATES - Robert A Harding was candidate to head the CIA or the Office of the Director of National Intelligence(...) [ 77 words ] [$1,8]

CANADA - Richard B. Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is still trying to improve(...) [ 126 words ] [$1,8]

INDIA/UNITED STATES - Robert Mueller, the director of the FBI, travelled to New Delhi on February 24 to brief India's National(...) [ 72 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED STATES - Brian Snow, former technical director of the National Security Agency, which he left in 2006, spoke(...) [ 111 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES - Hollywood loves Litvinenko Warner Bros and Sony are putting together competing film projects based on the assassination(...) [ 119 words ] [$1,8]

IRAN

Green tide against Ahmadinejad

Exiled financier Amir Jahanchahi, an outspoken adversary of the Iranian regime, is developing several structures aimed at overthrowing the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(...) [ 173 words ] [$5,4]

PALESTINE

Jihadists against Hamas

Since the arrest February 10 of the jihadist leader Mamoud Taleb, alias Abu al-Mu’tasem al Maqdisi, by the Executive Force of Hamas, there has been a wave of attacks against heads of the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip.(...) [ 158 words ] [$5,4]

IRAN - Handling Niger’s uranium Numerous Iranian diplomats left Niger following the coup d'etat that overthrew President(...) [ 121 words ] [$1,8]

PALESTINE - Islam’s latest army Along with Jund Ansar Allah (see opposite), another jihadist armed group is keeping Hamas’(...) [ 80 words ] [$1,8]

NORTH KOREA

Ri Pyong-sam, Beijing’s man

The political director of the Ministry of Popular Security serves as the link between North Korea’s and China’s intelligence services.(...) [ 219 words ] [$5,4]

CHINA

Transforming military intelligence

The Chinese People’s Army’s political intelligence service is focusing on the acquisition of technology lacking to China’s military.(...) [ 185 words ] [$5,4]

INDIA/UNITED STATES - Robert Mueller, the director of the FBI, travelled to New Delhi on February 24 to brief India's National(...) [ 72 words ] [$1,8]

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THE RED LINE

SAUDI ARABIA

Gulf rail race underway

Competing railway construction companies are scrambling to win the contract to build a high-speed link between Medina and Mecca. The stakes are high.(...) [ 334 words ] [$5,4]

GEORGIA/FRANCE/UNITED STATES

Lobbyists try to torpedo Mistral

Having given up all hopes of intervening in France to prevent the sale of Mistral amphibious vessels to the Russian Navy (see p.(...) [ 183 words ] [$5,4]

FRANCE/MALAYSIA

DCNS dives deep

Appointed at the beginning of this year, Pierre Quinchon, the new director of the DCNS’ submarine division will soon be taking a trip aboard one of the company’s vessels.(...) [ 205 words ] [$5,4]

ISRAEL/UNITED STATES/GEORGIA

Intermediaries in Tbilisi

The spectacular FBI swoop against 22 small arms manufacturers at the beginning of January (IOL 611) has started to produce results.(...) [ 196 words ] [$5,4]

UNITED KINGDOM - Control Risks is making a name for itself in oil industry security in Algeria, often to the detriment(...) [ 101 words ] [$1,8]

FRANCE/IRAQ - EHC, the private secuity company of former officer Marc Garibaldi has gone into partnership(...) [ 100 words ] [$1,8]

FRANCE - Gallice, the security firm run by Gilles Sacaze, Frederic Gallois and Luc Vaireaux is working(...) [ 73 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED KINGDOM - CforC,Christopher James' new company, is working in Tadjikistan for one of its clients.(...) [ 63 words ] [$1,8]

FRANCE - Herteman at Areva? A guessing game has been keeping the French business community talking for the past (...) [ 120 words ] [$1,8]

GERMANY - Satellite deal Hoping to profit from a series of delays that have affected the consortium Telespazio/Thales(...) [ 99 words ] [$1,8]

FRANCE - Mixed marriage Sexus Economicus, an investigative book published this week by French publisher Nouveau(...) [ 68 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED STATES

MMC’s Kroll cull

Marsh & McLennan has imposed a massive restructuring of its subsidiary Kroll to increase margins and get the best possible price for the agency.(...) [ 195 words ] [$5,4]

UNITED STATES

Mining new opportunities

EODT, one of the world’s principal mine clearance companies, has diversified into security and is proving to be a challenger to some of the sector’s leading players.(...) [ 215 words ] [$5,4]

GEORGIA/FRANCE/UNITED STATES

Lobbyists try to torpedo Mistral

Having given up all hopes of intervening in France to prevent the sale of Mistral amphibious vessels to the Russian Navy (see p.(...) [ 183 words ] [$5,4]

ISRAEL/UNITED STATES/GEORGIA

Intermediaries in Tbilisi

The spectacular FBI swoop against 22 small arms manufacturers at the beginning of January (IOL 611) has started to produce results.(...) [ 196 words ] [$5,4]

UNITED STATES - Veracity, the corporate intelligence agency headed by Stephen Fox, has just recuited a new advisor,(...) [ 79 words ] [$1,8]

UNITED STATES - Ben Allen, the chairman and CEO of Kroll, received 11,685 shares in parent company Marsh and McLennan(...) [ 93 words ] [$1,8]

SAUDI ARABIA

Report sheds light in bank probe

Ernst & Young’s investigation into the TIBC bank reveals an establishment that was out of control.(...) [ 315 words ] [$5,4]

ISRAEL/UNITED STATES/GEORGIA

Intermediaries in Tbilisi

The spectacular FBI swoop against 22 small arms manufacturers at the beginning of January (IOL 611) has started to produce results.(...) [ 196 words ] [$5,4]

FRANCE/IRAQ - EHC, the private secuity company of former officer Marc Garibaldi has gone into partnership(...) [ 100 words ] [$1,8]

TURKEY - More money for submarines Like its rival DCNS in Greece, Germany's Howaldswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) has the greatest(...) [ 72 words ] [$1,8]

IRAQ - Allawi’s advisors Challenger to the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in Iraq’s elections on March 7, Ayad(...) [ 78 words ] [$1,8]

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