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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/FRANCE

FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

Signed very discreetly on Dec. 20, a document laying down the "ways and means" of implementing a defence treaty concluded between France and the United Arab Emirates in January 1995 marks a decisive victory for Paris in the battle that has pitted it against the United States -- and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom -- to maintain military and economic influence in the Gulf. (...) [ 634 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
TEMPERS FLARE AT CIA
	Officials in the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO) have had a number of occasions to be unhappy since John Deutch took over as boss of the agency last March and began stirring up matters. (...) [ 305 words ] [ €5 ]

SAUDI ARABIA
TERRORISM ALERT IN KINGDOM
	Information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter indicates that the Saudi authorities fear an outbreak of terrorist attacks in the kingdom's eastern province. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
JOHN GILBERT GRIEVE
	Commander John Gilbert Grieve, director of criminal intelligence at Scotland Yard (SO11), was named Britain's new national anti-terrorist coordinator last month. (...) [ 237 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
CONSTANTIN MELNIK
	Constantin Melnik is probably the man who knows most about the "dirty war" that France conducted against Algeria's FLN between 1959 and 1992 because he largely directed it as advisor to Prime Minister Michel Debré, and in charge of French intelligence services at the time. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

CANADA
GEN. JOHN DE CHASTELAIN
	Irish republicans are angry over the appointment of Canadian general John de Chastelain among members of the panel that will oversee the decommissioning of weapons under the Northern Ireland peace process. (...) [ 274 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
CHINOOK CRASH UNDER SCRUTINY
	The first public and detailed scrutiny of a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of six MI5 agents, nine senior military intelligence officers, 10 RUC special branch members and the four-man RAF crew has opened amid claims the June, 1994 mishap might have been due to technical reasons. (...) [ 444 words ] [ €5 ]

JAPAN
REVAMP FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
	Japan's military intelligence services are due for a total overhaul in 1996 in a move that will enable them to take their distance increasingly from their powerful U. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE/SYRIA
BEIRUT THE GO-BETWEEN
	Breaking with long tradition, Syria's new envoy to France will not be a Christian but an Alawite, Adnan Omran. Aged 58, Omran is a veteran diplomat with 15 years experience of the Arab League, where his latest post was that of deputy secretary-general. (...) [ 269 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
BRITISH SEEK TIGHTER MILITARY TIES
	The British government is making a determined bid to upgrade and extend its military links with South East Asian countries before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese authorities. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
ONE WAY STREET
	The Pentagon's defence budget provides for American students following courses overseas with scholarships from the National Security Education Program to seek work with the Department of Defence (DoD) or the intelligence agencies. (...) [ 58 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
WHAT ARE THE COMOROS ISLANDS USED FOR?
	As examining magistrate Chantal Perdrix and the criminal investigation division of the Paris Gendarmery patiently push ahead with their inquiry, a few secrets about the mysterious abortive coup in the Comoros islands sprung by mercenary Bob Denard (IN 275) have begun to surface. (...) [ 210 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
THE WORLD CONFERENCE
	A renowned company specializing in cryptographic technology, RSA Data Security Inc. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BELGIUM/UNITED STATES
BRUSSELS AFTER ARLINGTON
	Building on the success of their third annual conference on infowar, InfoWarCon '95, last September in Arlington near Washington (IN 271), the National Computer Security Association (NCSA) has teamed with Winn Schwartau, boss of Interpact, and Robert Steele, president of Open Source Solutions (OSS) to organize InfoWarCon (Europe) '96 in Brussels on May 23-24. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CENTRAL EUROPE/EAST EUROPE
DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGY
	NATO's science and environment program is organizing a series of seminars on disarmament technologies aimed specifically at the Alliance's new partners from central and eastern Europe. (...) [ 149 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES
	BEST DATABASES ON WEB
		Undoubtedly the most comprehensive databases available to the public on proliferation questions throughout the world are those produced by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in the U. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

	SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
	THE "RAVEN" IS CAGED
		A court in Johannesburg ruled this week that a former British company director and spy, Paul Grecian, will remain firmly behind bars in South Africa pending a hearing on Jan. (...) [ 416 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/WEST EUROPE
REPORT SLAMS SURVEILLANCE GEAR SALES
	After working to focus attention on Western arms sales to strong-arm regimes some organizations are beginning to ring the alarm about the international trade in surveillance technology that helps non-democratic governments crack down on political opponents, human rights activities and minority groups. (...) [ 377 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
EYE-OPENING PERFORMANCE FROM ALOFT
	The U.S. WESCAM company is marketing a range of surveillance pods that can be fitted to UAV's or manned aircraft to meet security, covert surveillance and defence needs as well as more mundane requirements like news-gathering. (...) [ 340 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
DON'T LET THE BUGS BITE
	A Russian company has put a full range of anti-surveillance systems on the Western market, including a single system -- named OSCOR 5000 (for Omni Spectral Correlator ) -- that is designed to protect the user against audio and video transmitters using radio frequency, carrier current and infrared energy. (...) [ 241 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FINDING THE RIGHT DOCUMENTS
	The U.S. Mitre Corporation has developed what it calls Intelligent Document Detection -- IDD -- technology that uses advances in the fields of artificial intelligence and information retrieval to help users sift through on-line news sources. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	LEBANON
	SHIITE FIGHT CROSSES ATLANTIC
		The power-sharing arrangement that Damas and Tehran imposed in 1992 on the two Shiite movements in Lebanon, Amal and Hezbollah, has been crumbling in the wake of daily clashes between supporters of the two organizations in Beirut, the Bekaa valley and in southern Lebanon. (...) [ 333 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAQ/IRAN
	IRAN'S FOOTHOLD IN IRAQ
		Ali Agha Mohammadi (IN 265), leader of the Iraqi department of the Al Qods movement, wing of the Pasdarans that operates abroad, has just spent a week in northern Iraq holding talks with the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €5 ]

	ISRAEL
	THE FIFTH ON THE LIST
		Yehiya Ayyash alias the Engineer who was killed by Shin Beth in the Gaza strip on Jan. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	LUC ABOUZEID TO WORK AT MOHARER TOP SECRET
		Published in Paris by the Niman Presse company, the Arabic weekly Al Moharer which folded a few weeks ago (IN) could come out again around Feb. (...) [ 223 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER
		American intelligence services are known to be strongly opposed to any easing of government rules concerning the export of encryption software. (...) [ 200 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	FIRST E-MAIL TAP
		Three people have been arrested in the U.S. following what was the first ever court-approved wiretap of an e-mail account. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]