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SPOTLIGHT

BOSNIA

WHEN THE BOOMERANG RETURNS

Will the American and Saudi intelligence agencies succeed in handling the end of the war in Bosnia better than they did with the Afghanistan conflict? Nothing could be less certain because, as with Afghanistan, no specific plans appear to have been made to demobilize the Islamist battalions that have been fighting alongside the Bosnian army. (...) [ 618 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

GERMANY/UNITED KINGDOM
PROBE INTO ROGUE AGENTS
	Three members of Germany's federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst who were part of a joint BND/MI6 covert operation set up in 1991 to buy sensitive Soviet military equipment from demoralized Russian troops quitting the former East Germany are currently under investigation by the country's federal police agency, Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), over accusations that they benefitted financially from the operation. (...) [ 463 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NATIONAL ANTI-CRIME SQUAD
	Britain's Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has "conditionally" agreed to set up a national police squad for England and Wales to fight organized crime. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
BARRY MCCAFFREY
	President Bill Clinton has named Lt. Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a man some consider in line for the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to succeed Lee Brown as director of national drug control policy. (...) [ 218 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
RICHARD SCOTT
	Sir Richard Scott, current vice-chancellor of Britain's Supreme Court whose 2,000-page report into the arms-for-Iraq affair will be published on Feb. (...) [ 332 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
ABDUL AMIR AL ANBARI
	Iraq's permanent delegate to UNESCO in Paris since September, 1992, Abdul Amir al Anbari has just been named head of the Iraqi delegation that has started discussing the ways and means of lifting the UN's oil embargo on Iraq in New York this week. (...) [ 267 words ] [ €5 ]

PORTUGAL
U.S. TRAINING IN INTELLIGENCE
	U.S. intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and DIA, are to help Portugal train members of its future foreign intelligence service Servico de Informacoes Estrategicas de Defensa e Militares (SEIDM) which will be set up this year and become operational in 1997. (...) [ 236 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
WIDER COVERT ROLE FOR CIA?
	A high-level task force set up by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), will release a report on Feb. 12 that recommends the CIA expand its covert operations despite its "record of operating with questionable legality and judgement. (...) [ 438 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
CASTING OFF OLD HABITS
	Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has temporarily laid aside its traditional secrecy surrounding the Special Air Service (SAS) in a bid to recruit new personnel for two SAS regiments attached to the Territorial Army -- London-based 21 SAS (V) regiment and 23 SAS (V) regiment with bases in Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
SHAKE-UP ON THE CARDS
	French armaments and foreign intelligence circles are bracing themselves for a major shake-up in the months ahead. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

POLAND
FROM ONE SPY TO ANOTHER
	According to Pierre de Villemarest's Paris-based Centre Europeen d'Information (CEI), the new Polish prime minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, who was appointed by president Aleksander Kwasniewski on Feb. (...) [ 140 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
ARMS CONTROL APPOINTMENTS
	President Clinton has announced his intention to appoint two women scientists to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's scientific and policy advisory committee. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
FROM THE STRATEGIC TO THE FUNCTIONAL
	The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is organizing its 1996 international conference between March 27-30 in Washington. (...) [ 96 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
	Atout Presse is organizing a seminar entitled "From Technology Monitoring to Business Intelligence" in Paris on March 5. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO
	The second Information Security Conference will be held between May 14-16 in Chicago at a moment when American corporations are examining ever-growing problems regarding the security of communications on the Internet, international data encryption, electronic commerce and cybercrime. (...) [ 86 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	WEST EUROPE
	LAWYER UNDER SUSPICION
		A Geneva-based prosecutor, Kaspar Ansermet, has opened an inquiry into the activities of Ulrich Arnold Kohli, a well-known lawyer from Zurich. (...) [ 279 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	THE FBI'S TICKING BOMB
		In a case loosely connected to the bombing of Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland, an FBI agent has become the agency's first staffer to file a legal complaint against President Bill Clinton which demands that he enforce the law protecting whistleblowers. (...) [ 609 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
A DO-IT-YOURSELF WAR ROOM
	A seminar on "business intelligence practices in companies" staged in the French Senate on Jan. 25-26 by the Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France (AAAF) made it clear that intelligence methods employed in the economic and industrial world are becoming increasingly aggressive. (...) [ 356 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM
HOW BRITISH EW OUTFIT WORKS
	An American officer, Maj. Robert McPeek, had a unique occasion to see how Britain's electronic warfare system operates when he was seconded to the 14th Signal Regiment, the British Army's only EW unit, for two years between 1993-95. (...) [ 459 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
THAT SPECIAL INTRUDER SMELL
	An "electronic nose" fitted with sensors that can recognize the body odor of an individual trying to enter a secure area has been jointly developed by staff at the British firm Mastiff Electronics in Cranleigh, Surrey and a team of biochemists at Leeds University. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
SLEEPING EAR
	A recent survey by the Russian law faculty indicated that 7. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
DIGITAL SIGNATURES
	With encrypted digital signature systems becoming increasingly numerous in cyberspace, the British company Peripheral Vision is offering its PenOp system that allows the user to sign manually on a computer screen. (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BELGIUM
	KADHAFI'S BELGIAN CONNECTION
		The trial of several Belgian political personalities accused of accepting commissions after ordering polls from Belgium's Institut Universitaire de Sondages d'Opinion (INUSOP) opened on Feb. (...) [ 378 words ] [ €5 ]

	EGYPT/YEMEN
	CAIRO AND SANAA SEAL ACCORD
		After several months of negotiations (IN 274), Egyptian and Yemenite officials have hammered out a security treaty that the interior ministers of the two countries are expected to initial at the end of this month. (...) [ 319 words ] [ €5 ]

	SAUDI ARABIA/PAKISTAN
	TRACING AL SARAI'S BACKGROUND
		According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter, Hassan al Sarai (whose exact name is Hassan al Srihi), who was extradited from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia last week, was a Saudi Mujahideen during the Afghanistan war. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE/NETHERLANDS
	NEW GROUP CLAIMS ATTACK
		A previously unheard-of group calling itself A.N.G.S.T has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack against the French-owned Banque Paribas in the Dutch city of Arnhem in early January in protest over French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	STEALING TRADE SECRETS
		A Russian-born consultant who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years was charged this week with grand larceny for allegedly stealing trade secrets and property worth $1 million from General Electric. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]