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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

The advent of a Republican majority in Congress has reassured the U.S. intelligence community that it will obtain both the funds and encouragement needed to pursue its post-Cold War objectives. Top intelligence executives had feared that resources would have been slashed spectacularly had the Democrats retained control in the November elections, especially in the wake of the Aldrich Ames spy scandal and after the CIA had misled Congress about the enormous cost and scale of the National Reconnaissance Office's (NRO) new office building just outside Washington. (...) [ 629 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

BOSNIA
U.S.-EUROPE RIFT
	The war is Bosnia will probably put an end to full-scale cooperation in intelligence between the United States and its two staunchest allies in Europe--Germany and the U. (...) [ 222 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
CHANGES UNDER NEW PRESIDENT
	France's Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (SGDN) has discreetly set out under deputy secretary-general Rémy Pautrat to draft a fresh blueprint for French intelligence for the president who comes to power following elections in April/May. (...) [ 435 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

LEBANON
ABDEL HADI HAMADE
	Wisely taking refuge in Iran after the kidnapping of sheik Mustapha al Dirani in May, 1994 by the Israelis, Abdel Hadi Hamade has just reappared officially in Lebanon. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAN
COL. IRADJ ASSAR
	The Guide of the Iranian revolution, Ali Khamenei, has named Col. Iradj Assar as new air force chief-of-staff following the air crash that killed Gen. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
DATASTREAM
	Britain's Crown Prosecution Service will decide later this month whether to charge a 16-year-old youth from Tottenham in North London with computer misuse after he reportedly hacked into some of the U. (...) [ 165 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
BRUCE HOFFMAN
	Bruce Hoffman joined the University of St. Andrews in Scotland last August as chairman and senior lecturer in the university's international relations department. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €5 ]

NETHERLANDS
GO-AHEAD FOR DETECTIVE FORCE
	The debacle surrounding the IRT affair, which has seriously undermined the fight against major organized crime in Holland, has also put paid to any political opposition to a plan to set up a national detective force. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €5 ]

BAHRAIN
SECURITY REVAMP
	Violent riots that swept Bahrain in December in the predominantly Shi'ite suburbs of Manama -- Barbar, Abu Sibaa, Diraz and especially Bani Janrah -- have sown deep dissension within the ruling family concerning security policy in the emirate. (...) [ 278 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
PENTAGON PICKS LESS CROWDED ROAD
	The U.S. Defence Department, which sponsored the creation of the Internet in the 1960's, has joined the CIA, FBI and other American intelligence agencies in shifting from the now-crowded "super highway" to a more private system. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
ARAFAT'S GO-BETWEEN
	When former Israeli chief-of-staff Ehoud Barak turned down the job of first Israeli ambassador to Jordan because he wants to go both into business and into politics (he is preparing for elections in 1996) prime minister Itzak Rabin had the idea of proposing gen. (...) [ 125 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
STEERING COMMITTEES
	In replying to a question in parliament, Belgian interior minister Johan Vande Lamotte gave a clear indication of how the K4 Committee -- successor to the Trevi Group -- is organized to deal with security problems within the European Union. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SEVENTEEN WISE MEN TO EVALUATE CIA
	The Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1995 issued by the White House has set up a 17 member commission (nine named by the president and eight by Congress) to "review the efficiency and appropriateness" of the U. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
ANTI-DRUG PROGRAM RESUMES
	In December the U.S. resumed its anti-narcotics radar surveillance in Colombia and Peru. (...) [ 102 words ] [ €1,5 ]

JAPAN
NTT'S SURPRISING SIDELINE
	Speaking before the latest International Security Systems Symposium, the head of corporate security for Hughes Aircraft Co. (...) [ 72 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
TRADE IN GREY MATTER
	France's Centre d'Etudes et de Réflexion is organizing a breakfast meeting on Jan. (...) [ 78 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FROM MOGADISHU TO SARAJEVO
	The Centre d'Analyse sur la Sécurité Européenne (CASE) is organizing a conference at the French Senate in Paris on Jan. (...) [ 85 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SIX PANELS
	The International Studies Association plans to stage six panels at its annual convention in Chicago on Feb. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BELGIUM
GAINING A GLOBAL EDGE
	As part of its training program in business intelligence, the American firm Fuld & Company is organizing a seminar entitled "Competitor Intelligence for Global Advantage" at the Management Centre Europe in Brussels on March 28-29. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	ALGERIA/SWITZERLAND
	ISLAMIST WEBS IN SWITZERLAND
		The head of Algeria's military security service, Gen. Mohamed Mediene, visited Switzerland in the last week of December to inform the Swiss government about the activity of around 100 Algerian fundamentalists whom he claims are setting up networks in Central Europe (Sofia, Bratislava and Prague) to supply weapons to insurgents in Algeria. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	TARGETTING ECO-TERRORISM
		Scotland Yard's Special Branch has begun to target "green activists" and "environmental terrorists" in a switch of security priorities that was outlined in new guidelines for the force late last year. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
THE PERFECT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AID
	Designed originally by the British publisher Blackwell Scientific Publications as a data base manager to consult a scientific encyclopedia on CD-ROM, the Idealist software system has recently been adopted by many companies as a powerful aid to business intelligence. (...) [ 346 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
SECURITY SYSTEMS FOR DATA
	For the first time in Europe 10 major companies have agreed to permanently display security solutions for information systems in a single place. (...) [ 256 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAN
IRANIANS PUT THE PARTS TOGETHER
	An Iranian tank dubbed Zulfaqar was touted as a "pride of military manufacturing" and one of the "best tanks in the world" when it was shown to the public for the first time on an Army Day parade in Tehran last April. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €1,5 ]

NETHERLANDS
NEW WAY TO SEAL CONFIDENTIAL MAIL
	The Dutch company Stokvis Tapes & Glues has introduced a new method to seal confidential mail, packages and boxes made out of paper, carton or synthetic material. (...) [ 84 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEXT SECURITY STEPS
	The Internet Security Protocol group has succeeded in defining new security services that cover data confidentiality, data integrity, authentification and access control. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM
BRITISH FIRM MARKETS CARD IN U.S
	The U.K. company Ultra Electronics has opened a U.S. sales center to market the company's Magicard 300 system and companion Cardmagic software package. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	PALESTINE
	THE HAMAS AGENDA
		A recent Hamas document destined for the Palestinian movement's consultative council has laid down strategy aimed at toppling "the dictator" Yasser Arafat. (...) [ 274 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	CENTER TO PROBE TERRORISM
		Scotland's University of St. Andrews has set up a study center to examine terrorism and types of international conflict as well as what the center's director, Bruce Hoffman, calls "the grey area between political conflict and criminal activity. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

	CENTRAL EUROPE
	MORE URANIUM FINDS
		The head of Hungary's border police, Gen. Gyorgy Bakondy, revealed on Jan. 14 that a recent flurry of uranium seizures in central Europe had been due to the introduction of a new system to detect radioactive matter. (...) [ 315 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRELAND
	COP'S SWITCH TO CORPORATE PROTECTION
		Thomas O'Reilly, a former assistant commissioner of the Garda Siochana who quit the force last summer, has been named senior consultant with the so-called "KnR" ("kidnap and ransom") Dublin company Risk Management International. (...) [ 347 words ] [ €5 ]

	SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN
	WAR NOISES IN GULF
		Following a flareup in tension between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Riyad deployed four regular army brigades and a National Guard brigade (the Turki bin Abdul Aziz brigade) along the frontier between the two countries. (...) [ 60 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	LEBANON
	SECRET WAR IN LEBANON
		Sources close to Lebanon's Sureté Générale don't believe for a moment that the Mossad ordered the attack on Dec. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €1,5 ]