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SPOTLIGHT

FRANCE

FRANCE'S ECONOMIC WAR EFFORT AT STANDSTILL

France's defence establishment which took a number of initiatives in the sphere of economic warfare over the past two years feels severely disillusioned. Undertaken at great expense, many of the projects have bogged down, a victim of bureaucratic rivalry and political indecision. (...) [ 606 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

JAPAN
A DIA BOSS'S VAGUE MOMENTS
	It's not all that usual for a high-ranking serving intelligence agency official to write a book as James Hansen of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has done with "Japanese Intelligence - The Competitive Edge," that was recently published by NIBC Press (ISBN 1-0878292-16-1). (...) [ 176 words ] [ €1,5 ]

IRAQ
NEW INTELLIGENCE BOSSES IN KURDISTAN
	New intelligence chiefs have just been named by both Iraq and Iran to direct operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	WHO'S WHO

LEBANON
SYRIAN SECURITY SYSTEM BASED ON RESERVISTS
	Col Sami Abu Ghazali, head of Syrian military intelligence for Beirut and northern Lebanon (he has established his headquarters at the Beau Rivage hotel) has been tasked with organizing a new security system following the recent departure of Syrian soldiers from the Lebanese capital. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN
SANAA EXTRADICTS SIX "AFGHANS."
	In a first concrete result from a security agreement signed on July 27 between Riyadh and Sanaa (IN 293), Yemen extradited six Saudi "Afghans" to Saudi Arabia on Oct. (...) [ 83 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
NEW INTERNATIONAL THREATS
	The St. Cyr Ecole Nationale Superieure de Police at Mont d'Or near Lyons is organizing a conference on "International Threats" between Nov 19-21. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GET-TOGETHER FOR LABOUR SCIENTISTS
	The British Scientists for Labour association linked to the Labor Party is organizing a conference in London on Nov 14 entitled "Liberty on the Line: (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	FIGHT OVER MERGER OF FRENCH ARMAMENT AGENCIES
		Yvan Barbot, who was named chairman of the Office Francais d'Exportation de Materiel Aeronautique (OFEMA) in 1993 and head of the Societe Francaise de Materiels d'Armement (SOFMA) in September in the run-up to a planned merger between the two armaments services answering to the French defence ministry also wants to swallow up SOFREMI. (...) [ 118 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	PERU
	HELICOPTERS FOR PERUVIAN ARMY
		A Peruvian military delegation has just toured a number of East European countries (Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic) on the lookout for Russian-origin MI17 and MI8 fighter and transport helicopters. (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
COMMUNICATING WITH A SATELLITE
	Several American research organizations recently demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting data by laser beam. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
A THROW-AWAY NON LETHAL WEAPON
	The US Marine Corps' Commandant's Warfighting Laboratory (CWL) is carrying out tactical tests to see how the use of non-lethal weapons could help the Marines to fulfil their missions in modern warfare conditions. (...) [ 162 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
THE STEALTH SOLDIER
	Researchers at the Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency (DCTA) based in Colchester, Essex, are working to develop a range of new textiles which can be used in uniforms to camouflage soldiers or alert them to threats of chemical and biological attack. (...) [ 146 words ] [ €1,5 ]