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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

IMAGERY: U.S. PUTS IT ALL TOGETHER

CIA director John Deutch and defence secretary William Perry have unveiled plans for a far-reading consolidation of U.S. imagery activities that aims to create a National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) within the Department of Defence. A letter to Congress on Nov. (...) [ 608 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

BOSNIA
FRENCH AND U.S. MILINT
	As it has done since the start of the Yugoslav conflict, French military intelligence will play a major part in the new, 60,000-man NATO Implementation Force force being set up in Bosnia. (...) [ 226 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
SPYING GAME FOR GENDARMES
	On Nov. 16 the French government's official gazette published a discreet decree signed by defence minister Charles Millon and prime minister Alain Juppe that underscored the French Gendarmery's determination to get involved in civilian intelligence-gathering work, and particularly in the anti-terrorism field. (...) [ 306 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
STEPHEN LANDER
	The new director-general of MI5 who is to succeed Stella Rimington next Easter will be Stephen Lander, a counter-espionage expert who has worked for the security service for 20 years. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
JOSEPH DANTONE, JR.
	Rear admiral Joseph Dantone, who is being tipped as the first director of the new National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) (see Spotlight), graduated from the U. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
BRUNO ELIE
	The new head of French military intelligence, Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM), Maj.-Gen. Bruno Elie, who took up his job on Dec. (...) [ 324 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
MILITARY BETTER AT COVERT WORK
	The reason that U.S. HUMINT is being revamped and the Pentagon is receiving a bigger share of the action is that the CIA's personnel are ill-equipped to run Non-Official Cover (NOC) outfits, according to intelligence sources. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
NEW "TIBET WORKING GROUP"
	According to Intelligence Newsletter sources, a "Tibet Working Group" was recently set up by the Chinese State Security ministry (Guoanbu) as part of a shakeup in the organization. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW BOSS NAMED AMID LAYOFFS
	The British government has named a new boss at the GCHQ communications center just as it announced the elimination of 900 jobs from the agency's 5,500-strong workforce. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
EXAMS FOR NEW RECRUITS
	Belgium's Sureté de l'Etat is setting up a number of think tanks to prepare changes in its "external services" which employ its field agents. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PORTUGAL
POLICE AND INTELLIGENCE OVERHAUL
	Portugal's new socialist government has named a magistrate and deputy prosecutor, Rodrigues Maximiano, to the new job of inspector general at the interior ministry. (...) [ 156 words ] [ €1,5 ]

IRAQ
NEW MILITARY SECURITY BOSS
	President Saddam Hussein last month named Gen. Hatem al Hababi as director of the Military Security Service (Al Amn al Askari) in succession to his half-brother, Gen. (...) [ 225 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GREEN LIGHT FOR MI5 BURGLARS
	British law will need to be amended to allow MI5 to intercept mail and break into private property as part of its new role in tackling serious crime as well as terrorism. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

NEW ZEALAND
TOP EXPERTS MEET IN NEW ZEALAND
	The University of Otago has teamed up with the National Computer Security Association (NCSA) to organize a conference on computer security at Queenstown in New Zealand between Feb. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

MOROCCO/MIDDLE EAST
CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE ARAB WORLD
	The The Europe Arab Center for Studies (CEEA) is organizing its fourth annual seminar between Jan. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
GLOBAL SOURCING
	As part of a series of breakfast meetings, SCIP France will shortly organize two conferences. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	EUROPE
	PRE-REQUISITES FOR EUROPEAN ARMY
		French armed forces chief-of-staff Gen. Jean-Philippe Douin believes Europe requires three "necessary capabilities" if a future European defence pillar is to acquire the "strategic independence needed to manage a crisis without the help of American resources. (...) [ 375 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	INTRUDER CLEARED
		Nigel Mahomet, a former British Telcom engineer who was charged under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act with unauthorized access to BT's main computer database, the Customer Services System (CSS), was found not guilty last month. (...) [ 328 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
WALL STREET TELLS MARINES HOW TO COPE
	Generals have always been plagued by the "fog of war" and the confusion generated by tomorrow's high-tech battlefield may even be harder to deal with than in the past. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
NEW ANTI-SNIPER SENSORS
	Unveiled for the first time at the Milipol show held at Le Bourget in late November, PILAR is a light acoustic alert system developed by the French company Metravib RDS at the bidding of the French armaments board -- Delégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA) -- to detect and localize the source of a shot fired by a light weapon. (...) [ 376 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
EQUIPMENT FOR FRENCH SPECIAL FORCES
	The official magazine of French paratroops, Beret Rouge, has published a picture of a special operations unit that operates behind enemy lines for the 14th Command and Logistic Paratroops Regiment, a wing of the 11th Paratroop Division. (...) [ 141 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
EUROPE VS UNITED STATES?
	During an international meeting between the media and defence officials organized by the Association des Journalistes de Defense at the Science and Industry center at La Villette in Paris on Nov. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GERMANY
DIRECTION FINDING BY SINGLE SOURCE
	Following the development of the E-2000LH digital HF receiver that equips technical analysis units at the Mutzig-based Electronic Warfare Center, Daimler Benz Aerospace (DASA) has just completed a new series of radio surveillance and electronic warfare equipment. (...) [ 122 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EGYPT/YEMEN
	SOMALIA NEW BASE FOR "AFGHANS"
		The Arab "Afghan" movement that has found itself at the center of Islamist fundamentalist groups throughout the world is organizing itself, altering its leadership structures and finding new havens for its followers. (...) [ 635 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	WIRE SERVICE WITH A DIFFERENCE
		Police in Texas have cracked down on a system that may have resulted in as much as $6 billion in illegal drug money being funnelled into Latin America over the past decade. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	THE 21ST CENTURY CONFLICT
		The U.S. concern Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has set up a Center for Information Strategy and Policy to examine how information technology is likely to shape military conflicts in the 21st century. (...) [ 319 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	BRITISH SLAMMED
		The European Court of Justice ruled on Nov. 30 that Britain's use of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was in breach of European Union law. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BELGIUM
	LEGAL BUGGING IN BELGIUM
		The Belgian government presented a draft bill on Nov. 24 that enables the Surete de l'Etat and the army's Service Generale de Renseignement to legally intercept telephone and microwave communications. (...) [ 86 words ] [ €1,5 ]