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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

A top-line panel has recommended a shake-up in American intelligence that would include such revolutionary moves as uncoupling the Directorate of Intelligence from the CIA and reducing it drastically in size. The panel, chaired by former National Security Agency director Lt. (...) [ 621 words ] [ €7 ]

Community watch

BURMA
DOUBLE GAME FOR CHINESE?
	Security officials in the Chinese border province of Yunnan have been showing special concern for opponents of Burma's regime in recent months. (...) [ 216 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
NRO LIFTS THE VEIL AGAIN
	The National Reconnaissance Office declassified approximately 38,000 pages of documents concerning the Corona, Argon and Lanyard satellite programs on Nov. (...) [ 471 words ] [ €4 ]

WHO'S WHO

JAPAN
MAGOSAKI UKERU
	A specialist in the affairs of the former Soviet Moslem republics and Japan's ex-ambassador to Uzbekistan, Magosaki Ukeru was named head of the foreign ministry's (Gaimusho) Analysis and Intelligence Bureau this autumn in succession to Shigeta Hiroshi. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
RAY MALLON
	The police officer credited with introducing the Zero Tolerance concept to the U.K. has been suspended from duty. Detective superintendent Ray Mallon, head of the Middlesborough criminal investigation division (CID) was accused of passing on confidential information to a "third party" about an internal corruption inquiry called Operation Lancet which related to incidents in 1993-94 in which two CID detectives, Sean Allen and Brendan Whitehead, were suspended over allegations they had supplied heroin to suspects in return for confessions about a series of burglaries. (...) [ 242 words ] [ €4 ]

LEBANON
NABIH FARHAT
	The Lebanese cabinet decided on Dec. 4 to extend the mandate of gen. Nabih Farhat as director of the Service de la Securite de l'Etat for one year despite the fact he has reached the compulsory retirement age of 60. (...) [ 358 words ] [ €4 ]

ITALY
MAJOR SHAKE-UP IN THE OFFING
	Italy's political class has been rocked over the prospect of a major rehaul of the Italian intelligence services that was proposed to the government in early December by the head of the Carabinieri, gen. (...) [ 531 words ] [ €4 ]

RUSSIA
REVELATIONS ON SOUD IN GERMANY
	Researchers at the German institute examining the archives of the former East German security service STASI under the direction of the Protestant clergyman Joachim Gauck have uncovered a file that the Western services have long wanted to get their hands on: (...) [ 436 words ] [ €4 ]

FRANCE
NEW PROPOSAL FOR PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT?
	A working group on intelligence set up within the French parliament's defense committee will begin its work in January. (...) [ 168 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
HOW LONDON POLICE SPEND THEIR MONEY
	Anti-IRA measures cost the London police almost £50 million per year, according to a report on the Metropolitan Police's security budget that home secretary Jack Straw ordered after Scotland Yard blamed an increase in reported crime in the capital on the cost of fighting the IRA. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
NEW METHODS IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
	The Development Institute International company is organizing a conference entitled "New Methods of Competitive Intelligence" in Paris on Feb. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,3 ]

MIDDLE EAST
DEFENCE PROCUREMENT
	Considering that the Middle East will offer one of the world's most important markets for defence equipment in the world by 2010, the SMI company is organizing a conference entitled "Middle East Defence Procurement" in London on Feb. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Threat assessment

	EUROPE
	FIRST CONCLAVE FOR OPEN SOURCES
		For the first time in Europe the officials who deal with open sources in intelligence and law enforcement agencies will be able to meet at a conference named EuroIntel'98 between March 23-26 in Brussels. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €4 ]

	GERMANY
	350 CIA SPIES UNMASKED
		The names of 350 CIA officers and agents who served in Germany starting from the 1950s have been revealed in Headquarters Germany, a book that has just been published in Germany by Klaus Eichner and Andreas Dobbert (Edition Ost). (...) [ 319 words ] [ €4 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
RGA SYSTEMS LAUNCHES A WAR ROOM
	The war rooms invented by the RGA Systemes company are relatively little known but all the big French defense firms (Thomson-CSF, Dassault Aviation, Aerospatiale, Matra and the like) as well as the French armaments board (DGA), defense ministry and the armed forces chiefs-of-staff have all used them in recent years. (...) [ 495 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW FUNDING FOR MICRO AIR VEHICLES
	The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has begun negotiating contracts with six companies to develop the technology to build micro air vehicles (MAV). (...) [ 291 words ] [ €4 ]

BELGIUM
A CLOTH AGAINST ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE
	Embassies and military establishments that need to protect premises against electromagnetic interference and the risk of electronic eavesdropping know the problem only too well: (...) [ 173 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
NO EXPORT LICENCE NEEDED FOR TIS
	The Trusted Information Systems (TIS) company, which was the first to promote the key recovery system that has the backing of the American government, has scored again by winning permission from the Department of Commerce to export its RecoverKey Toolkit without the need to apply for licences. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
TO SEE THROUGH TREES
	The Hughes Aircraft Co. has just announced that it has won a sub-contract from Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems to provide DARPA and the U. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED STATES
	GOVERNMENT-PRIVATE COOPERATION?
		It appears increasingly clear that a major aim of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) that Bill Clinton set up in July, 1996 is to bring about close cooperation between the government and private sector in the field of computer security. (...) [ 636 words ] [ €4 ]

	EGYPT
	MUBARAK'S ANTI-TERROR STRATEGY
		President Hosni Mubarak laid out his strategy in the face of fresh terrorist attacks with his advisors when he was flying back to Cairo from Riyadh on Dec. (...) [ 400 words ] [ €4 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	NEW METHODS FOR CLANDESTINE IMMIGRATION
		The United Kingdom is setting up a specialist squad of criminal intelligence and immigration officers to fight the growing trade in immigrants that is being organized by the Chinese triads, the Russian mafia and Nigerian cartels. (...) [ 141 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	FRANCE
	BRUGUIERE IN BUDAPEST BEFORE CARLOS TRIAL
		A few days before Carlos' trial opened this week in Paris the French examining magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere travelled to Hungary to meet with security minister Istvan Nikolics and the deputy chief public prosecutor, Janos Fabian. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €1,3 ]