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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

CIA CHIEF'S POWER PLAY

The U.S. intelligence community and legislators are thrashing out ideas in preparation for a major shake-up of American intelligence later this year or early in 1997. In a hearing on Dec. 19 before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, John Deutch, director of central intelligence (DCI), threw a proposal into the pot: (...) [ 593 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
MUSICAL CHAIRS IN WHITEHALL
	The new year has brought a rich harvest of change in the top echelons at Britain's Foreign Office. Pauline Neville-Jones, deputy under-secretary of state and political director at the Foreign Office, who lost her job after just one month as head of the Joint Intelligence Committee (IN 237), appears to have got the short end of the stick once again. (...) [ 329 words ] [ €5 ]

NORTHERN IRELAND
RUC CHANGES WITH THE TIMES
	A White Paper outlining proposals for the biggest shake-up of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) since the founding of the six-county province in 1922 is due to be published by the Northern Ireland Office later this month. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
COLIN MCCOLL
	He had no name in the past because the organization he headed, MI6, supposedly didn't exist. When the British government finally owned up in 1992 that the Britain's foreign intelligence agency did in fact exist its chief was referred to merely as "C. (...) [ 308 words ] [ €5 ]

SWITZERLAND
BRUNO BREGUET
	Former right-hand man of Carlos and one of the few members of the latter's terrorist outfit still at large, Bruno Breguet, a Swiss national, disappeared near the Greek port of Igoumenitsa on Nov. (...) [ 305 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
AHMED ABDULKARIM AL SAADI
	For some months Ahmed Abulkarim al Saadi, alias Abu Mahjan, has been eluding the Lebanese police who are hunting him for the murder last August of sheikh Nizar al Halabi, leader of the Sunnite fundamentalist group al Ahbash, in the western suburbs of Beirut. (...) [ 293 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SPLITTING THE BURDEN
	Among the many proposals doing the rounds in Washington as the U.S. prepares to overhaul its intelligence agencies from top to bottom (see Spotlight) is a plan to create separate national intelligence and covert operations wings within the intelligence community. (...) [ 358 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
NO EAVESDROPPING FOR GENDARMES
	Intelligence Newsletter has learned that the government recently refused permission to the French Gendarmery to have a quota of telephone taps under the supervision of an examining magistrate. (...) [ 154 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PORTUGAL
MILITARY MISGIVINGS
	Jorge Sampaio's election as new Portuguese president on Jan. 14 has stirred some misgivings among the country's armed forces. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5'S NEW RULES FOR NEW GAME
	Despite mounting concern over the future relationship between MI5 and the police in view of the security service's lack of accountability a bill extending the role of the agency to work with the police in preventing and detecting serious crime sailed through the House of Commons unopposed on Jan. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
A RUSSIAN ENIGMA
	According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter from several sources but unconfirmed officially, four Russian "diplomats", including two on post in Madrid, defected in Spain last month and asked the U. (...) [ 349 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
HOW TO FINANCE THE FUTURE
	Leading figures in the aeronautics and banking industries are meeting up between March 25-27 in Pentagon City (Arlington) for the Aerospace Finance '96 convention organized by CS First Boston, Bankers Trust and the Aviation Week Group. (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
LIVE DEMONSTRATION
	Mine clearance specialists from around the world will gather at Brabonnet Fort at Sospel in southern France between May 22-24 for a Deminex Forum, 1996 show. (...) [ 125 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN UNION
	EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN
		When a working group set up by the European Union, the U.S. and Canada on Iran meets in Rome in March it will adopt a wider format to includes intelligence officials and experts on terrorism and proliferation for the first time. (...) [ 337 words ] [ €5 ]

	LIBYA
	NEW LIBYAN CHANNELS
		Over the past six months Libya's military intelligence agencies have been hard at work finding new supply lines for the country's armaments. (...) [ 302 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

BOSNIA/UNITED STATES
BOSNIA TEST BENCH FOR U.S. SYSTEMS
	Direct U.S. intervention in the Bosnian crisis with the Joint Endeavor peace-enforcing operation has enabled American military intelligence to test advanced systems that integrate data from a wide-range of sources to give commanders at both staff and field level a clear picture of unfolding situations. (...) [ 470 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
COMPROMISE IN CRYPTOGRAPHY FEUD
	The U.S. government and International Business Machines Corp. seem to have found an intriguing compromise that enables IBM to export a more secure version of its Lotus Notes software in return for giving the authorities a special key to break into the software's codes. (...) [ 350 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NOTHING RESISTS RESEARCH ENGINES
	Hardly a month ever passes that a new research engine doesn't appear on the Internet with ever-greater capacity. (...) [ 297 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
BUILDING UP CUSTOMER LIST
	The U.S. firm Comverse Technology has won a $2 million order from an unnamed government agency in Europe for its Audiodisk digital recording systems that are used primarily by law enforcement and intelligence-gathering agencies to monitor and record data, image or voice communications. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BAHRAIN/MIDDLE EAST
	REASON BEHIND BAHRAIN UNREST
		Two opposition movements which had their headquarters in Beirut until only recently are chiefly responsible for riots that rocked the sheikdom of Bahrain once again last week. (...) [ 295 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	FEDERAL RESERVE TOP LAUNDERER
		The latest issue of New York Magazine has published a remarkable story by investigative journalist Robert Friedman about gigantic currency purchases (at least $500 million per week) by Russian banks in the United States. (...) [ 295 words ] [ €5 ]

	NETHERLANDS
	ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK
		A 42-year-old Dutch businessman, Norbert Stok, has started legal proceedings to win damages from the Amsterdam public prosecutor's office and the Het Parool newspaper for portraying him as the mastermind behind a global money-laundering ring. (...) [ 357 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	POLICE INTELLIGENCE LOOKS INTO ASSOCIATIONS
		The French police intelligence service Renseignements Generaux (RG) has told the interior ministry it is prepared to conduct a nation-wide inquiry into non-profit associations. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	HOW SAS JOB WAS BOTCHED
		The commander of UK Special Forces, Brigadier Andrew Massey, has admitted that serious tactical mistakes were made when the Special Air Service (SAS) was dropped behind Iraqi lines during the Desert Storm operation in January, 1991. (...) [ 203 words ] [ €1,5 ]