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SPOTLIGHT

MIDDLE EAST

GULF TORN BY INNER DIVISION

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is to hold its 17th summit meeting on Dec. 7 in the Qatari capital of Doha in the most divisive climate ever to grip the six-nation organization. In what is a tangible sign of Riyadh's waning supremacy in the region, Saudi crown prince Abdullah Ibn Abd al Aziz, the defence minister Sultan Ibn Abd al Aziz and Jamil Hujailan, secretary-general of the GCC and former Saudi ambassador to Paris, have all failed to heal growing breaches between the Council's members. (...) [ 662 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

BELGIUM
SIGINT RESOURCES FOR AGENCIES?
	In its annual report for 1996 that has just been submitted to Parliament, Belgium's Comite Permanent de Controle des Services de Renseignement (Permanent Oversight Committee for the Intelligence Agencies or R Committee) regretted that Belgian intelligence lacked the least SIGINT capacity, unlike its counterparts in neighboring and NATO nations. (...) [ 371 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
KEEPING MI5 ON A LEASH
	The British government has decided to set up a unit in Whitehall to monitor MI5 operations following a secret review of operations of the security and intelligence agencies conducted by Sir Michael Quinlan, former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence. (...) [ 373 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

FRANCE
JACQUES FOURNET
	For the first time a former head of a French intelligence agency has quit the civil service to start working for a private company. (...) [ 291 words ] [ €5 ]

JORDAN
LAITH SHUBAILAT
	Jordan's most famous political dissident, the Islamist legislator Laith Shubailat, who was sentenced to three years in jail in March, has just been released in spectacular manner from the Sawaika jail in the Jordanian desert. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
COL. HERMAN LUYTEN
	The Belgian Rijkswacht (state police) drug liaison officer with diplomatic status based at The Hague since 1993, col. Herman Luyten, resigned on Nov. (...) [ 265 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI LAB AGENT FINGERED
	Justice Department sources say that a panel of prosecutors and forensic scientists investigating 20 FBI lab agents for over a year is about to single out David Williams for serious wrong-doing in the World Trade Center bombing case. (...) [ 315 words ] [ €5 ]

HUNGARY
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BOSS ON WAY OUT
	Kalman Kocsis, head of Informacos Hivatal (IH), Hungary's foreign intelligence service, is expected to shortly be fired. (...) [ 114 words ] [ €1,5 ]

HONGKONG
SUN SETS ON BRITISH AGENTS
	With eight months to go before Hong Kong reverts to China British intelligence is re-organizing itself to adapt to the colony's future as a Special Administrative Region. (...) [ 377 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
HOW A TOP SECRET COURT OPERATES
	In 1995 a top secret court established under the Foreign Intelligence Security Act authorized a record number of 697 wiretaps in the United States outside normal Constitutional procedures. (...) [ 452 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
FROM MONITORING TO ACTION PLANS
	The company Development Institute International (DII) is organizing a conference entitled "Switching from Competitive Monitoring to Implementing an Action Plan" in Paris between Jan. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CENTRAL AMERICA
FINANCIAL GATHERING IN THE CARIBBEAN
	The first world conference devoted to different technical aspects of financial cryptography will be held on the Caribbean island of Anguilla between Feb. (...) [ 115 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	SAUDI ARABIA
	BIN LADEN'S SHADOWY EMPIRE
		According to a well-informed Arab source, Ussama bin Laden, one of the main financial backers of fundamentalist movements, is currently in London and enjoying the protection of Britain's intelligence agencies. (...) [ 504 words ] [ €5 ]

	HUNGARY
	MIG 21'S FOR AMERICAN "COLLECTORS"
		Col. Janos Kovacs was recently arrested by the Hungarian authorities for having tried to sell two Mig 21 fighters to American "collectors. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM
HUGE CONTRACT FOR TRANS-ATLANTIC TEAM
	The Inca consortium made up of British Telecom, Britain's General Electric Company and the U.S. defence group Lockheed Martin has won the £1 billion Defence Fixed Communications Systems contract to supply all voice and data communication needs of Britain's armed services for the next decade. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
FRENCH SCHOOL OF SEARCH ENGINES
	The IEC conference draws a bigger crowd each time it is held and the 1996 version, organized with the participation of SCIP-France, Global Business Development Alliance (GBDA) and Open Sources Solutions (OSS) brought together over 300 people this week in Paris. (...) [ 425 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
COMPUTER ACCESS BY FINGERPRINT
	An American company, National Registry Inc., has devised a product that enables banks, health-care providers, companies and government services to verify a user's identity by on-line fingerprint before providing access to its computer systems. (...) [ 149 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET
	Hewlett-Packard claims to have developed an encryption framework for securing data sent over the Internet that has been approved by the American government and supported by the French and British governments. (...) [ 149 words ] [ €1,5 ]

AUSTRALIA
SPY AGENCY TESTS SYSTEM
	The Australian intelligence community is testing a claim by a Sydney-based Unix software developer named Softway to be the first Australian company to build a firewall up to E3 security certification, a standard required by Australian government regulations for storage of unusually sensitive data. (...) [ 119 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BELGIUM
	TORTUOUS DEBATE IN BELGIUM
		The American Robert Steele, who has long championed the use of open sources by intelligence agencies, has won a number of supporters in Belgium when he monitored the first European InfoWarCon conference in June (IN 289). (...) [ 246 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	GERMANY/IRAN
	TIFF WITH IRAN SLOWS SCHMIDBAUER
		Bernd Schmidbauer's decision to put back a trip to Lebanon and Israel starting on Nov. 24 was probably dictated by a diplomatic dust-up between Iran and Germany. (...) [ 342 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	A TURNCOAT'S ITINERARY
		The arrest of 16-year CIA veteran Harold Nicholson on charges of spying for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has devastated morale at the agency, according to CIA boss John Deutch. (...) [ 450 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRELAND
	IRISH POLICE THOUGHT LINKED TO MURDER
		Even though the current investigation into the contract killing of Veronica Guerin, a crime journalist for Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper has so far failed to gather enough evidence to charge an underworld figure with sanctioning the murder it has uncovered a web of corruption within the Garda Siochana. (...) [ 338 words ] [ €5 ]