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SPOTLIGHT

SAUDI ARABIA

SAUDIS UNDER HEZBOLLAH THREAT

Surprised by the size of undercover Shi'ite movements it has rolled up in recent months, Saudi Arabia's interior ministry has decided to set up a database with the help of the FBI and CIA to keep tabs on all fundamentalist movements -- Shi'ite but also Sunni -- operating in the kingdom and other Gulf nations. (...) [ 627 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

SUDAN
SHAKE-UP FOR INTELLIGENCE BOSSES
	President Omar al Bashir has triggered a shakeup in Sudan's intelligence and security services amid a worsening domestic political climate and a step-up in military pressure from the country's neighbors to the south. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
LIFTING THE VEIL ON NRO
	The US National Reconnaissance Office has released further details about its budget, personnel, organization and future plans. Among the details were the percentages of the NRO budget spent on each of the agencies five branches. (...) [ 461 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

TURKEY
ABDULLAH GUL
	Abdullah Gul, number two man in the Islamist Refah party headed by prime minister Necmettin Erbakan, was understandably pleased when Turkish interior minister Mehmet Agar, a member of Tansu Ciller's True Path party, was forced to stand down on Nov. (...) [ 222 words ] [ €5 ]

PAKISTAN
SYED ZIAUDDIN ALI AKBAR
	The former treasurer at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar, was released from Brixton prison in London on Oct. (...) [ 350 words ] [ €5 ]

ROMANIA
MIHAIL CARAMAN
	Mihail Caraman, who was head of Romania's Securitate in Paris from 1958 to 1969, is the man behind accusations in the news magazine L'Express on Oct. (...) [ 415 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
BALANCING ACT BETWEEN DCI AND SENATE
	The 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act signed by President Bill Clinton in October will lift U.S. spending on intelligence to a reported $30 billion next year -- a rise of 4. (...) [ 614 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
SADDAM BOLSTERS ETHNIC BASE
	The Baath party's extraordinary congress held behind closed doors in Baghdad between Oct. 18-21 provided an occasion for president Saddam Hussein to mend relations between his Takriti clan with the Douri, Jbour and Samarai clans that rebelled openly against his regime in 1994-95. (...) [ 395 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
REPORTING ON FBI'S FOREIGN OPERATIONS
	The U.S. Congress has ordered FBI director Louis Freeh to soon start submitting an annual report on the activities of the Bureau outside the United States. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
COVERT FROGMAN COME INTO OPEN
	Once sworn to total secrecy, France's covert military frogmen are stepping from the shadows. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

EUROPE
FUTURE OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRY
	The Euromanagement company is organizing a conference entitled Reshaping Business Strategies in the European Defence Industry in Amsterdam between Jan. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
HOW TO DETECT DUBIOUS OPERATIONS
	The company Development Institute International (DII) is organizing a seminar in Paris between Dec. (...) [ 98 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED KINGDOM
	NEW LAW TO ALLOW SIGINT EVIDENCE
		An in-depth review of British anti-terrorist legislation by a senior law official, Lord Lloyd, has led to the recommendation that information obtained during SIGINT operations by the police and intelligence services should be admissible in UK courts in cases of organized crime or terrorism defined as "being in the interests of national security. (...) [ 316 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	BRITISH AIRPORTS SLAMMED
		Nearly half of Britain's 33 airports lack the most up-to-date baggage screening equipment, according to former MI5 officer David Lord who is head of transport security at Transec, the UK Department of Transport's security division. (...) [ 417 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
LESS COSTLY TEMPEST COMPUTERS
	The U.S. group Wang, whose Wang Federal division has been a major supplier of secure computer systems to the American government for long years, is fast gaining ground on the same market niche in Europe. (...) [ 485 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
PLAYING IT BY EAR
	The British company Sonic Communications presented several systems at the latest COPEX 96 show that bear a strange resemblance to those described in the book The Operators by James Rennie on operations carried out in Northern Ireland by the 14th Intelligence Company for the British government. (...) [ 220 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MR EVERYMAN ON LINE
	Plans for a £30 billion computer system to centralize personal records on every British citizen were published in London on November 6 in a "Green Paper" entitled Government Direct. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
KEEPING LOOKOUT OVER E-MAIL
	The magazine Security Management put out by the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) published a warning to companies in its November issue. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
AUTOMATED SIGHTS FOR SNIPERS
	As on previous occasions, the COPEX 96 surveillance and security equipment exhibition at Esher, Surrey between Nov. 5-7 provided a showcase for a lot of new hardware. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

	SAUDI ARABIA
	RIYADH PURSUES LEBANESE-SYRIAN LINK
		Saudi Arabia's pro-Iranian Shi'ite opposition movement can be broken down into three major groups: alongside Hezbollah (see Spotlight) are the Organization of the Armed Islamic Revolution in the Arabian Peninsula headed by Hassan as-Saffa and the Faith Brigades-Hedjaz Section led by sheikh Ali al Chueikhat. (...) [ 332 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	FBI WATCHES WHEREVER YOU GO
		In its attempt to tap cellular telephones and other mobile communications systems, the FBI has placed a new interpretation on what it is allowed to expect from the phone companies under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994. (...) [ 345 words ] [ €5 ]

	LEBANON/TURKEY
	MIT HUNTS DOWN KURDS IN LEBANON
		A team from the Turkish intelligence service MIT has set up shop in a fairly open manner in Beirut under diplomatic cover. (...) [ 71 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	NETHERLANDS
	HOLLAND'S TRIGGER-HAPPY POLICEMEN
		A report commissioned by Holland's internal affairs department and justice ministry into the police use of firearms between 1978 and 1995 has revealed that more people were accidentally shot by the police in Holland than in Germany, a country with five times the Dutch population. (...) [ 174 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	ISRAEL/RUSSIA
	RUSSIAN MAFIA'S MAN IN ISRAEL
		The Israeli police intelligence service and JAHAP, a unit specializing in the fight against organized crime, are probing links between businessman Gregory Luchianski and government officials in Jerusalem. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €5 ]