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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

DEMISE OF A GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY

The world's intelligence services are facing a genuine revolution for the first time in their history. Governments are fast losing the virtual lock they held on intelligence. True, the end of the Cold War partially opened the floodgates. But swift advances in computer technology, the linking of networks and databases via Internet and breakthroughs in software to both search for and process information have all created an entirely new situation in which intelligence has become a tool for the private sector-- for companies, associations and even individuals. (...) [ 625 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

SAUDI ARABIA
TURKI APPEALS FOR EGYPT'S HELP
	The chief of Saudi Arabian intelligence, prince Turki Bin Faisal, paid a secret trip to Cairo between Nov. 14-16 to meet with Egyptian defence minister Gen. (...) [ 177 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SECURING MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
	A Lockheed Martin Titan 4 Centaur launch rocket lifted a Milstar DFS 2 satellite, which will provide secure military communications from a geostationary orbit, into space from Cape Canaveral on Nov. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WHO'S WHO

RUSSIA
VLADIMIR KIRPICHENKO
	Lt.-Gen. Vladimir Kirpichenko, head of a group that advises the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR, was received by the bosses of France's DST and DGSE in Paris on Nov. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
RAMADAN ABDALLAH SHALLAH
	Born in 1955 in the Al Shujaia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, the new secretary-general of Palestine's Islamic Jihad, is a self-effacing man who was virtually unknown outside his movement before his appointment on Oct. (...) [ 243 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
PHILIPPE COURTOT
	French engineer Philippe Courtot pulled off a real feat two years ago when he took over the Verity company, the CIA's supplier of research software. (...) [ 277 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
HOW KILLERS GOT TO SHQAQI
	When he was assassinated by Mossad hitmen in Malta in late October Fathi Shqaqi, secretary-general of Palestine's Islamic Jihad movement, had just been "dropped" by Libya and was under close surveillance by Egyptian intelligence. (...) [ 469 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
CIA SEEKS DOMESTIC ROLE
	The CIA and the Department of Justice have set up two working groups to examine the conditions in which the CIA could play a role in domestic law enforcement, breaking with its long-standing practice of operating only abroad. (...) [ 356 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
AIDE SLAMS MILITARY "TAKEOVER"
	A former CIA deputy director, Richard Kerr, told the House intelligence committee on Nov. 16 that he was worried over the "growing dominance of the Defence Department in intelligence" and claimed the Pentagon had been handed "control of more and more activities where the CIA once played an important role. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
POLICE FOR SALE -- LEGALLY
	A proposal to allow many of the 43 local police forces in England and Wales to become "self-financing organizations" and earn money by selling their professional services abroad was contained in a report tabled before a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) last month. (...) [ 494 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
NMIA'S SIXTH SYMPOSIUM
	The National Military Intelligence Association, a group of intelligence professionals, is holding its sixth annual one-day unclassified symposium on the status of defence and service intelligence: (...) [ 68 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FRANCE, THE DETERRENT AND EUROPE
	The Institut de Relations Internationales Strategiques (IRIS) and the Cercle de Reflexion et d'Etudes sur les Problèmes Internationaux (CRESPI) are organizing a seminar in Paris on Dec. (...) [ 156 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
TERRORISM AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT
	The Security and Intelligence Studies Group (SISG) chaired by Ken Robertson at the University of Reading in Britain will present two workshops at the British International Studies Association's annual conference between Dec. (...) [ 98 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	SEYCHELLES
	LEGAL HAVEN IN SEYCHELLES
		The Seychelles government has found an original way to make up for the loss of $4.5 million in annual revenue stemming from Washington's decision to close down its satellite-tracking station on the islands in October, 1996. (...) [ 251 words ] [ €5 ]

	EGYPT
	EGYPTIAN ISLAMISTS HIT BACK
		The killing of Alaa el Din Nazmi, number two man at Egypt's trade mission to the U.N. in Geneva, on Nov. (...) [ 553 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

WEST EUROPE
TERRORISM AND HIGH TECH
	Recent arrests of suspected Islamist fundamentalist terrorists in France, Belgium and Switzerland have enabled the authorities to keep abreast of new high tech equipment (computers, digital scanners, color photo-copy machines) designed to produce fake ID cards, driving licences and official documents like university diplomas from authentic documents. (...) [ 69 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
ELEMENTARY, WATSON
	The U.K. firm Harlequin is touting a new software program named Watson that it claims can organize, analyze and present information to help police find the threads in complicated investigations like money-laundering cases. (...) [ 192 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
THE SEMPER PROJECT
	A European consortium made up of 20 major companies and research institutes will shortly launch a three year project named Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe (SEMPER) to examine the potential for "secure commercial transactions" on the Internet and other publication information networks. (...) [ 160 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. DENIES BUGGING BINGE
	Despite deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick's claim that the Justice Department has "no intention to expand the number of wiretaps or the extent of wiretapping" under the FBI's controversial new proposal for expanded wiretap capacity some experts believe that as many as 500,000 to 1,500,000 simultaneous wiretaps could be conducted in the U. (...) [ 410 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
THE NEW INTELLIGENT "AGENTS"
	The founders of the TextWise company set up in 1993, Mike Weiner, who also runs Manning and Nappier Information Services, and Elizabeth Liddy, a linguistic expert and professor of Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, have outlined in numerous articles and conferences how intelligent text processing which is currently flourishing in the U. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	SURGE IN "PHREAKING" IN FRANCE
		A seminar on computer crime that was organized by PACT Conferences in Paris on Nov. 21-22 shed light on how far and fast hackers have advanced in France in recent months. (...) [ 245 words ] [ €5 ]

	BELGIUM
	FIGHT AGAINST GANGS
		Belgium's Sureté de l'Etat has begun beefing up its unit that specializes in watching and infiltrating organized crime groups. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM
	LEAK RUINS UNDERCOVER OPERATION
		A leak to the French press in early November not only compromised an ongoing MI5 and Special Branch undercover operation but also cast doubt on future cooperation between France and the United Kingdom in the fight against terrorism, sources in London say. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	NEW EMBARRASSMENT FOR U.K.
		The Court of Appeal in London ruled on Nov. 7 that British government ministers had deliberately withheld documents indicating that Whitehall knew and encouraged arms sales to Iraq in defiance of an international embargo in the case of the so-called Ordtec Four. (...) [ 416 words ] [ €5 ]