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SPOTLIGHT

MIDDLE EAST

THE END OF SAUDI SUPREMACY?

When the tiny state of Qatar threw down the gauntlet to its powerful Saudi neighbor by ostentatiously boycotting the closing session of the latest Gulf Cooperation Council summit meeting at Oman on Dec. 6 it wasn't acting out of pique. (...) [ 651 words ] [ €7 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
DOWNSIZING THE SNOWSHOES
	Vice President Al Gore's office put out a press release last week outlining current efforts to downsize the U. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
HUMAN RIGHTS ON BRITISH TERMS
	Prime minister John Major told the House of Commons on Dec. (...) [ 167 words ] [ €1,3 ]

WHO'S WHO

ISRAEL
EPHRAIM HALEVY
	Recently the deputy head of Mossad, Ephraim Halevy will take up his job as Israel's new envoy to the European Union in Brussels on Jan. (...) [ 275 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
STANLEY MORRIS
	The past appears to be catching up with Stanley Morris, current boss of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. (...) [ 349 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
ROSLYN MAZER
	President Bill Clinton has announced plans to appoint Roslyn Mazer to head the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel that was set up in October to hear appeals by individuals against decisions by government agencies to refuse to declassify information. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
ROTTEN APPLE IN NCIS BARREL
	A high-level police probe has begun into allegations that classified criminal data gathered by Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service was leaked to leading underworld figures by someone within the unit which was set up in 1992 to fight against drug dealers, organized crime, counterfeiting and money-laundering. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
THE COST OF OVER-PROTECTION
	The boss of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, J.S. Gordon, claims the United States is "still spending too much money protecting us from ourselves. (...) [ 416 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
INSLAW IN NEW BID FOR REDRESS
	The manufacturer of PROMIS software, Inslaw, has subpoenaed all major U.S. intelligence agencies for a copy of the software they use for databases such as the CIA's DESIST terrorism databases and for tracking data and managing cases. (...) [ 236 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW MAN AT PFIAB
	President Bill Clinton has named lawyer James Hamilton from the Washington-based firm Swidler & Berlin to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). (...) [ 242 words ] [ €4 ]

ALGERIA/FRANCE
AN UNPUBLICIZED VISIT
	Gen. "Tewfik" Mediene, boss of Algeria's Department de Recherche et Securite (DRS, former Securite Militaire) carried out a highly discreet trip to France during the first week of September. (...) [ 317 words ] [ €4 ]

FRANCE
TROUBLESOME STOWAWAY ABOARD HELIOS
	Since the Helios-1 military satellite was launched last July 7 the French military authorities have had some trouble explaining to their Italian and Spanish partners in the project why some of the satellite's instruments regularly stop working, only to start up again for no apparent reason. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
KEY FACTORS TO SUCCESS
	For its fourth annual forum in Paris on Jan. 25-26, the Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France (AAAF) will bring together many of France's leading business intelligence figures to discuss "Business Intelligence Practices; Key Factors to Success. (...) [ 154 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
HOW TO DO IT
	The U.S. firm Ross Engineering which specializes in corporate security problems is organizing a training course at St. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,3 ]

FRANCE
SEVENTH EUROPEAN FORUM
	The company XP Conseil is organization EUROSEC'96, the seventh annual forum on information systems security, in Paris on March 26-27. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Threat assessment

	EGYPT
	EGYPTIAN AGENTS FAN OUT
		A "reliable military source" in Cairo who was quoted in The Independent newspaper on Dec. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	EUROPE
	ACCORD A TOOTHLESS TIGER?
		After nearly two years of hard bargaining 28 nations met in The Hague on Dec. 19 to put their name to a new export control system that aims to stand in for COCOM, an organization set up early in the Cold War to prevent the transfer of military technology to the communist bloc. (...) [ 404 words ] [ €4 ]

TECHNOLOGY

GERMANY
DASA'S SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM
	Over the past 20 years Daimler Benz Aerospace (DASA) has been working with the Daimler Benz research institute in Ulm on ways of recognizing speech and it is now marketing a particularly efficient system designed for use by intelligence services, among others. (...) [ 345 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
COMPUTER-ASSISTED CRIME BUSTING
	Software that allows the user to visualize links between scattered elements during a police inquiry or intelligence operation is increasingly hitting the market-place. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €4 ]

SWITZERLAND
BUGGING FAX AND PHONES
	A company registered in Guernsey but working out of Geneva, Communications Research Group (CRG) displayed what it called a new-generation, undetectable system to intercept fax and voice communications at the recent Milipol show near Paris. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
FINGERPRINTING THE MASSES
	A California-based company that claims to be a world leader in fingerprint technology, is seeking to sell its products to systems integrators who can build ID systems for huge civil and commercial organizations. (...) [ 270 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
WALLS AND CLOTHING NO BARRIER TO CAMERA
	A camera that can look through walls or clothing to help police see the position of siege hostages or pick out people carrying drugs or weapons in large crowds has been developed by a U. (...) [ 167 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	HOW THE SINGAPORE LINK WORKED
		A company accused of exporting naval guns to Iran via Singapore in the late 1980's in breach of an international embargo shipped the weapons in component form, making it hard for British customs to keep tabs on them. (...) [ 302 words ] [ €4 ]

	CHINA/SUDAN
	CHINESE ARMS FOR SUDAN
		Sudan took delivery of major shipments of Chinese arms in the second half of November, Intelligence Newsletter has learned. The equipment, delivered to Port Sudan by vessels flying the Panamanian flag, included 50 Z-6 helicopters in kit form. (...) [ 273 words ] [ €4 ]

	UNITED STATES
	NEW DOCTRINE, FRESH DEFINITIONS
		The U.S. Air Force has closely followed the Pentagon's lead in the way it defines Information Warfare, saying that IW can cover everything from psychological operations to electronic warfare and passing by way of military deception, security measures, physical destruction and information attack. (...) [ 426 words ] [ €4 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	AL MOHARER'S ZIG-ZAGS
		The demise of the Arabic-language weekly Al Moharer which folded in Paris in early December reflected the zig-zags of a newspaper that started out by unreservedly backing Iraq before the Gulf war to spouting pro-Islamist propaganda during the past two years. (...) [ 381 words ] [ €4 ]