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SPOTLIGHT

EUROPE

BLUEPRINT FOR A EURO INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

In releasing a report on Europe's Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) on which a group of 14 independent experts had worked discreetly for a year the European Commission probably laid the foundation stones for a future European intelligence structure in Brussels on Jan. (...) [ 604 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD
	Unable to pry any information from MI6, members of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FASC) who wanted information on Britain's policy on nuclear arms proliferation and control following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a bright idea-- ask the KGB's successor, FSK, and the CIA. (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
THE EASY WAY TO OBTAIN STATE SECRETS
	Senior Whitehall officials have launched an investigation into how confidential government papers, including a 17-page report on the introduction of a national ID card, were found in a filing cabinet bought at a junkshop in north London for 35 pounds. (...) [ 195 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

RUSSIA
NICOLAI SEMIONOV
	Boris Yeltsin's dismissal of vice-premier Nikolai Yegorov, federal coordinator in Chechnya-- who stepped down ostensibly for health reasons--and the appointment of Yegorov's deputy, Nikolai Semionov, in his place confirms the return of former KGB officials to the political arena, to the detriment of the military who have been the big losers in the Chechnya crisis. (...) [ 216 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT
	Accused of spying for France's DGSE by Texas Instruments (TI), Jean-Piere Dolait probably owes his sudden exposure to the limelight to the clumsiness of the big French computer company Bull. (...) [ 331 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
YEHIA AYACHE
	Considered the organizer of Hamas suicide bomb attacks that have killed 56 and wounded over 200 in Israel and the occupied territories over the past 18 months, Yehia Ayache, alias the "Engineer" is probably the most wanted man in the Middle East today --by both Shin Bet and Yasser Arafat's security services. (...) [ 335 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
SUCCESS ABROAD, INFIGHTING AT HOME
	The heads of French intelligence and leading political figures are all jockeying for position in advance of France's presidential elections in May to determine who wins the biggest piece of the power cake afterwards. (...) [ 502 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
ENCRYPTION OUT IN OPEN
	The debate over encryption has generally been carried out behind closed doors in France. However, the issue popped up in public on Jan. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM
	President Bill Clinton's executive order in late January to freeze the US assets of 18 individuals and a dozen organizations suspected of ties to Middle East terrorism is just a prelude to sweeping new laws later this year to crack down on threats to the U. (...) [ 437 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
WHY DEUTCH WAS REJECTED
	In the Jan. 31 issue of his publication OSS Notices, Robert Steele, president of Open Sources Solutions, revealed that Anthony Lake and other members of the National Security Council (NSC) are behind Bill Clinton's refusal to name John Deutch, number two man at the Pentagon, as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and thus boss of the CIA. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

IRAN
NEW AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF
	Iradj Assar, who was named air force chief-of-staff by Ali Khamenei after the accidental death of Gen. (...) [ 122 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

GERMANY
PROPOSALS FOR GERMANY
	The Berlin office of the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert Stiftung foundation is organizing an international conference in Berlin on Feb. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
HOW TO READ FINANCIAL REPORTS
	SCIP France (Association for the Promotion of Business and Competitive Intelligence) is organizing a breakfast meeting in Paris on Feb. (...) [ 98 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	EUROPE
	HEADQUARTERS AND BOSS BUT NO TREATY
		The Hague has been chosen as the agency's headquarters and a British diplomat has been picked as its acting secretary. (...) [ 241 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/RUSSIA
	FIGHTING BRAIN AND KNOWHOW DRAIN
		Oles Lomacky, a specialist in sensitive technology transfers at the Department of Defence (DoD), has just been named head of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) in Moscow in succession to a colleague who had previously worked for the Department of Energy (DoE). (...) [ 686 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
UNCOVERING THE COMPUTER'S SECRETS
	An American company claims to be expert in tracking down and retrieving information that has theoretically been deleted from computers. (...) [ 387 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
BREAKTHROUGH IN BATTLEFIELD RECCE
	The U.S. military has developed a drone with the unwieldy name of Medium Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MAE-UAV) and more familiarly known as Predator that can hover for long periods over battlefields and provide near-real-time reconnaissance and surveillance. (...) [ 405 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SELF-EXPIRING PLASTIC
	Temtec, Inc. in the U.S. has developed a temporary plastic ID badge whose surface automatically changes after a given time, with the word Expired appearing in red ink that is visible from 15 feet away. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]

INDIA
INDIANS SEEKING DUAL TECHNOLOGY GOODS
	U.S. reports indicate that India is seeking to buy technology that has civilian applications, particularly in satellites, but can also be used in the development of military rockets and missiles, according to a new American publication called the Risk Report that sets out to track weapons of mass destruction (WMD). (...) [ 197 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. FALLS BEHIND IN LAUNCH SYSTEMS
	American satellite launchers are less efficient and technologically advanced than their main foreign competitors, according to Pentagon experts who drew up a Foreign Launch System Comparison Study for Congress. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN
		Bahrain's foreign minister, sheik Mohamed ben Mubarak al-Khalifa, has pinned the blame on both Iran's Savama and Lebanon's Hezbollah for the violent riots that have shaken Manama over the past two months. (...) [ 377 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM/NORTHERN IRELAND
	WHEN THE "SLEEPERS" AWAKE
		What could well be the last in a series of major IRA-related trials ended at the Old Bailey in London on Jan. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	BRITISH INFLUX FEARS UNFOUNDED
		British fears that the easing of border controls within the European Union would trigger an inrush of drugs to the United Kingdom have proved largely unfounded, according to Paymaster General David Heathcoat-Amory. (...) [ 278 words ] [ €5 ]

	SAUDI ARABIA/UNITED STATES
	PRINCE ABDALLAH'S SECRET TRIP TO U.S
		Intelligence Newsletter sources have revealed that Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Abdallah bin Abdel Aziz, carried out a highly secret week-long trip to the United States in mid-January. (...) [ 156 words ] [ €1,5 ]