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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TAKEOVER BY BIG SIX?

Are the world's biggest accountancy and auditing concerns about to pounce on business intelligence by making a grab for the small companies led by strong-minded individuals who pioneered the speciality? The question is highly pertinent since Kroll Associates, the biggest and most renowned business intelligence firm with 250 employees across the world, is being wooed by companies like Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte & Touche, two of the world's Big Six auditing firms. (...) [ 596 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

SAUDI ARABIA
FRONTIER FORCE BOSS FIRED
	On Dec. 22 King Fahd signed an order firing the head of Saudi Arabia's Frontier Force, gen. Mujab Ibn Mohamed Ibn Maneh al Kahtani, at the bidding of interior minister prince Nayef Ibn Abd al Aziz. (...) [ 358 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
MARKUS WOLF FIGHTS BACK
	Markus Wolf, head of HvA, the foreign intelligence section of East Germany's Stasi between 1951-87, plans to deploy a full-scale offensive during his new trial that starts in Dusseldorf on Jan. (...) [ 378 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
ADMIRAL EMO ZUMWALT
	Former commander of U.S. naval forces in Vietnam (1968-70) and then chief of naval operations (1970-74), 58-year-old admiral Emo Russel Zumwalt has been named to the board of directors at IDT Corporation. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
JOHN DEUTCH
	Hardly had president Bill Clinton announced the appointment of Anthony Lake as new director of central intelligence (DCI) than John Deutch, his predecessor, found himself named to the board of Citicorp. (...) [ 224 words ] [ €5 ]

MOROCCO
ABDULILAH ZIAD
	The political itinerary of the militant Moroccan Islamist Abdulilah Ziad, alias Rachid, who was tried in December in Paris for his part in an attack against a hotel in Marrakech in August, 1994, can stand in many ways as an example. (...) [ 399 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
NEW ELECTRONIC WARFARE UNIT
	France's Centre d'Electronique de l'Armement (Electronic Warfare Center) has just created the Centre de l'Armement pour la Securite des Systemes d'Information (CASSI) with three specific aims. (...) [ 248 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW PURSUITS FOR MASINT
	Used in strategic intelligence for decades, MASINT -- short for measurement and signature intelligence -- could be consigned a fresh role in the aftermath of the Cold War. (...) [ 491 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MOD EMBARRASSED BY ARMY SPIES
	A spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that an internal investigation is being conducted into complaints from MI5, MI6 and military professionals that senior personnel of a branch of the Army Intelligence Corps, the Intelligence and Security Group (Volunteers) (ISG), displayed a consistently "cavalier attitude" and had committed breaches of security. (...) [ 285 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
CORRUPTION HOTLINE
	Scotland Yard has become Britain's first police force to set up a confidential telephone hotline -- dubbed "the Right Line" -- for London police and the force's civilian staff to inform on colleagues they suspect of corruption. (...) [ 192 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
SEMINAR FOR THE WARRIOR
	The company Syracuse Research Corporation is organizing a three-day seminar in San Antonio, Texas between Jan. (...) [ 141 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
EIGHTH EUROPEAN FORUM
	The company XP Conseil is organizing EUROSEC'97, the eighth European forum on security and the quality of information systems, in Paris between March 17-19. (...) [ 100 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	CHIRAC'S LEBANESE GAMBIT
		Some top-line officials in French intelligence agencies (DGSE and DST) are up in arms over the way that France relayed information to the Syrian government in recent weeks. (...) [ 324 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	FRENCH CHEMICAL WEAPONS PLAN
		A 50-page draft bill that the French government has sent to France's State Council for approval is sending shivers through the chemical industry, counter-espionage services and military chiefs. (...) [ 459 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
UNMANNED AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE
	The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) tested an unmanned amphibious vehicle named Gecko during a recent exercise dubbed Sea Dragon. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
A SAFE TO ENCRYPT DATA
	The U.S. company Authentex Software Corporation will begin this month to market DataSAFE, an intuitive new encryption software that works like a real combination safe. (...) [ 445 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
ADVANCE FOR EYE ID
	British Telecommunications has signed an agreement with the U.S. firm IriScan, Inc. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW GENERATION GROUND STATIONS
	The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to a consortium headed by Lockheed Martin Western Development Laboratories (WDL) to develop and provide equipment and services needed to design, test and commission new imagery ground systems. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
A "WAR ROOM" TO CLINCH A CONTRACT
	Steve Shaker and George Kardulias, who both worked for the CIA's Directorate of Operations and now run the American company WarRoom Research, staged a discreet seminar in Paris in December on the war room. (...) [ 353 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAQ
	WHY UDAY HUSSEIN WAS SHOT
		According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter in Amman, Beirut and Cairo, the attempt on the life of Uday Hussein, eldest son of the Iraqi leader, was the work of Al Daawa al Islamiya, the Iraqi Shi'ite fundamentalist movement broken up in 1980. (...) [ 452 words ] [ €5 ]

	JAPAN/PERU
	JAPANESE GOT THE WRONG ENEMY
		The hostage crisis that began in the Japanese embassy in Peru on Dec. 17 has stirred up fresh ire between the Japanese intelligence agencies, government and public opinion. (...) [ 337 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	DID FUNDING INFLUENCE POLICY?
		The manager of the Labour Party's electoral campaign, Brian Wilson, MP, has written to the parliamentary ombudsman, George Downey, to ask for an inquiry into allegations that the Conservative Party had secretly receive funds from Serbian sources during the war in Bosnia. (...) [ 293 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/ISRAEL
	AN AMERICAN AND ISRAELI INQUIRY ON EUROCOPTER
		The FBI and Israeli police are conducting an inquiry into the activity of American Eurocopter Corp. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]