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SPOTLIGHT

FRANCE

FRENCH SERVICES IN TURMOIL

The entire French intelligence community has been rocked by shock waves from the putsch that was nipped in the bud in Comoros on Oct. 5 when 600 elite French troops rounded up 30 mercenaries headed by Bob Denard. A lot of mystery continues to shroud the affair. (...) [ 584 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
NEW ROLE FOR SMALLER SGDN
	In its annual report on the activities of the Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (SGDN) the French Parliament's defence committee had to present a vastly different picture of the organization in the wake of a shakeup that SGDN's new boss, Jean Picq (IN 271) pushed through on Oct. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
KEEPING LID ON FRONT COMPANIES
	Congress has shown some wariness over at least one striking aspect of a plan by CIA director John Deutch to bring all military human intelligence-gathering under a single centralized command at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) called Defense Human Intelligence Service (DHS). (...) [ 528 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

CHINA
RUAN CHONGWU
	According to Asian intelligence sources, Ruan Chongwu, member of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee and governor of Hainan province since 1993, is likely to be named the first boss of the special administrative region of Hong Kong in the next few weeks. (...) [ 210 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
KHAMIS KHALIF AL AJILI
	The British government has declared Khamis Khalif al Ajili, administrative attache at the Iraqi Interests Section at the Jordanian embassy in London, persona non grata because of "activities incompatible with his diplomatic status. (...) [ 261 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
JEAN-CHARLES MARCHIANI
	A strong supporter of former interior minister Charles Pasqua, Jean-Charles Marchiani has managed up to now to survive this year's change of government in France and has even succeeded against all expectations in keeping an office at the interior ministry. (...) [ 342 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS
	In response to a barrage of fire against the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), CIA director John Deutch has told the office to change the way it handles money, ordered an audit of its budget by the CIA and Defense Department and named a new financial officer to the organization. (...) [ 510 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
OUTCRY OVER DEFENCE "MAVERICK"
	British arms manufacturers are voicing concern over the role and growing influence of David Hart, private advisor to defence secretary Michael Portillo. (...) [ 443 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
	Eight years after the State Department in Washington allowed ex-CIA agent Philip Agee to re-enter the U. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PORTUGAL
SPY ALLEGATIONS SURFACE AGAIN
	Following the recent government change in Lisbon, allegations that Portuguese diplomats engaged in espionage in Pakistan, Cuba and Czechoslovakia have re-surfaced in public. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
HOW TO PREVENT ATTACKS
	The Euroforum company is organizing a two-day seminar on Jan. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
INTERNET, FREEDOM AND PRIVACY
	The sixth Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference (CFP96) organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in conjunction with the Association of Computing Machinery and the World Wide Web Consortium will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts between March 27-30. (...) [ 115 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED KINGDOM/IRAN
	BRITAIN'S ARMS SHIPMENTS TO IRAN
		Some 35 pages of documents, including ships' manifests, which indicate that the U.K. manufacturer Royal Ordnance shipped over 270 tons of explosives to Iran between September, 1985 and August, 1986 in defiance of an international embargo have been sent to Valerie Strachan, head of the British customs service, by a Labor legislator, Stephen Byers. (...) [ 405 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	BRITISH POLICY UNDER FIRE
		Sources in Brussels say that a secretive European committee that examines matters relating to political asylum has voiced "astonishment" over a document by the British Conservative Party's Central Office that confirmed the Home Office would draw up a so-called "white list" of countries to be regarded as "safe" and from which refugees would be automatically barred from seeking asylum. (...) [ 283 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPEAN UNION
THE ENCRYPTION KEY KEEPERS
	Like the United States before it, the European Union appears increasingly concerned over ensuring the security of information networks. The EU believes that companies and individuals should be allowed to encrypt their data but would like a list of keys to be kept for security purposes. (...) [ 471 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
DATA IN 3-D MAP FORM
	Research software is very much a hot item at present since anyone gathering "open source" information must use it if they want to sift through databases or flows of on-line information. (...) [ 289 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
INTELLIGENCE ONLINE
	Indigo Publications is this week launching its World Wide Web server, Intelligence Online. (...) [ 220 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
INFRARED IN HOT PURSUIT
	An airborne infrared tracking system similar to the kind used to guide smart bombs during the Gulf War is helping American police to catch fugitives. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	GROWING THREAT FROM HACKERS
		Hackers are continuing to sow deep concern among American officials, as two meetings in Washington this week amply illustrated. During a Nov. (...) [ 462 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAN
	IRAN'S CHEMICAL BUILD-UP
		Intelligence services in the Gulf countries are particularly worried over recent information they have obtained from Iran concerning a build-up in that country's chemical and biological warfare capacity. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

	SLOVAKIA
	FINE FORGERY BUT WRONG DAY
		Internecine warfare between police forces in Slovakia has thrown up an interesting example of the Slovakian secret service's knowledge of Western banking systems. (...) [ 254 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY
		The American intelligence community has come to the uncomfortable conclusion that the U.S. is ill-prepared to deal with the threat of terrorists getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). (...) [ 287 words ] [ €5 ]