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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

CLINTON'S GLOBAL-MINDED SECURITY TEAM

The make-up of the new "security team" appointed by President Bill Clinton on Dec. 5 offers a clear idea of the priorities he has chosen for his second mandate. Clinton's first four years were devoted essentially to the economy: domestic turnaround and conquest of foreign markets with the creation of a full-fledged economic warfare machine (intelligence agencies geared to economic intelligence; creation of a war room at the Department of Commerce to track major contracts; easing of restrictions on the export of sensitive equipment; mobilization of the entire government to promote overseas sales). (...) [ 658 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
SAS MEN FIRED
	Twelve members of the 21 Territorial Army SAS unit have been expelled from the elite regiment for taking part in an ITV television series entitled SAS - The Soldiers' Story despite being warned in advance that disciplinary action would be taken if they participated in the six-part documentary. (...) [ 204 words ] [ €1,5 ]

IRAQ
SADDAM'S SECURITY CHIEF IN PARIS
	Saddam Hussein's chief-of-staff and head of his personal security detail, col. Rokan Abdul-Ghafour, was hospitalized at the Salpetriere hospital in Paris on Dec. (...) [ 394 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
TATIANA GAU
	Recently named vice president of Integrity Assurance at American Online (AOL), one of the world's biggest on-line services, Tatiana Gau had previously served as executive vice president of Parvus Co. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
STELLA RIMINGTON
	Former MI5 director-general Stella Rimington who retired last year and was replaced by Stephen Lander, has been named a non-executive director of Marks and Spencer with a mandate to protect the corporate interests of Britain's best-known retail chain-store. (...) [ 283 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
IYAD ALLAWI
	Tipped as the next president of the Iraqi National Council (INC) which speaks for around 40 movements opposed to Saddam Hussein, Iyad Allawi enjoys the backing of Jordan's intelligence agencies, the CIA and the State Department, particularly Robert Pelletreau. (...) [ 376 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
ROCARD SLAMS INTELLIGENCE FLAW
	In a recent debate in the French senate on the budget of France's Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale former prime minister Michel Rocard voiced dismay that five new tasks recently laid out for SGDN did not include "the job of coordinating intelligence. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €5 ]

SPAIN
A LEAK TO UNDERMINE NATO BID
	Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar has asked Javier Calderon, recently-appointed boss of the country's top intelligence agency, the Centro Superior de Investigacion para la Defensa (CESID, to personally take charge of an inquiry to find the person who leaked a classified NATO "general intelligence briefing" to the daily newspaper El Mundo which assessed the risks posed by medium-range Libyan nuclear, chemical and biological missiles to European cities over the next decade. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
SAS BLUEPRINT AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
	The conservative chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, Michael Colvin, has asked for an urgent meeting with defence secretary Michael Portillo to discuss a potential security breach which led to detailed plans of the Special Air Service's new headquarters at Credenhill, a former RAF base around 10 km from Hereford, being available for inspection by the public at the offices of South Herefordshire district council. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
JOINING BATTLE AGAINST WMD
	Two little-known committees attached to the National Intelligence Council have emerged as key players in the on-going U.S. intelligence effort against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), ballistic missiles and space systems. (...) [ 447 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
AN ANNUAL OCCASION YOU CAN'T MISS
	The carrier pigeon will be honored during the sixth annual RSA Data Security Conference in San Francisco between Jan. (...) [ 141 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
HOW TO SET UP AN INTELLIGENCE UNIT
	The IIR company is organizing a conference entitled Competitive Intelligence in London between Jan. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	SAUDI ARABIA
	IRAN BEHIND AL KHOBAR BOMB
		Saudi Arabian interior minister prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz personally handed over video footage on Nov. 30 to U.S. defense secretary William Perry that contained the confessions of six people suspected of carrying out the al Khobar bomb attack in June. (...) [ 504 words ] [ €5 ]

	BELGIUM
	PINNING DOWN CLAES' ROLE
		Investigators from the Justice Ministry who are looking into the part played by former economics affairs minister and NATO secretary-general Willy Claes in the country's Agusta affair, which saw Belgium acquire 48 combat helicopters from the Italian company, have obtained a copy of a video tape made in mid-1989 at a local ground-breaking ceremony for a factory on an industrial site at Lummen in Limburg. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

SWEDEN
SWEDES IN INFRASOUND WEAPON FOREFRONT
	The Americans are not alone in trying to develop infrasound weapons. But while the United States appears to know what it wants to do with these armaments, which they classify as "non-lethal" weapons, the Europeans are saying less about their intentions. (...) [ 438 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SATELLITE TRACKS SECRET NUCLEAR TESTS
	A small and inexpensive satellite designed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) can perform the double duty of detecting covert nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere and helping scientists understand the physics of lightning and investigate the inosphere. (...) [ 329 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW ENCRYPTION PACKAGE
	The firm Security Dynamics has unveiled the first encryption package, named RSA SecurPC, to flow from its takeover of RSA Data Security earlier this year. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
DETECTING MINE FIELDS
	The U.S. Marine Corps is currently evaluating a version of the Pioneer UAV named COBRA (for Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis) that is being developed to draw a detailed map of minefields and obstacles that could stand in the way of landing troops. (...) [ 174 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
FINGERPRINT STANDARDS SCRAPPED
	Britain's Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has agreed to stop using the current 16-point standard of proof for fingerprinting that was introduced in 1910 and opt instead for an Australian procedure in which the prosecution relies on a qualified expert to determine whether two sets of prints based on just eight points of comparison match. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	HONGKONG
	GUOANBU ATTACK IN MACAO?
		Lt.-Col. Manuel Antonio Apolinario was wounded last week in Macao when motor-cycle riders opened fire, hitting him twice. For five years and until 1996, the Portuguese officer was head of intelligence in Macao as boss of the Policia de Seguranca Publica's Seccao de Informacoes. (...) [ 351 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE/SWITZERLAND
	OPERATION ORDERED FROM SWITZERLAND?
		French intelligence officials are persuaded that the bomb attack that killed four people in the Paris subway on Dec. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	QUESTIONS OVER EDS IN SPAIN
		The U.S. information technology concern Electronic Data Systems (EDS), which recently secured a British contract to computerize 250 national and regional courts in England and Wales (IN 296), has been indirectly tied to alleged fraud in Spain and is struggling to limit the damage to its image. (...) [ 338 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	COMPUTER ATTACKS NOT REPORTED IN U.K.
		Derek Jackson, coordinator of the British Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) claims hackers may be breaking into as many as 25 computers in the U. (...) [ 241 words ] [ €5 ]