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SPOTLIGHT

FRANCE

FRANCE EYES BIGGER ARMS SALES ABROAD

Jean-Yves Helmer pushed through a major overhaul at the French armaments board -- Delegation Generale pour l'Armement -- on Jan. 22 just as France's Defense Council was poised to meet under president Jacques Chirac to examine a new "strategic plan" to export French weaponry. (...) [ 650 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

RUSSIA
THE FINANCIERS BEHIND LEBED
	In his race for the Russian presidency Alexander Lebed is reputed to lack money. However, a recent report by the FSB put a finger on the type of financial aid the general could expect to find. (...) [ 240 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
DISAGREEMENT OVER POLICE BUGGING
	Britain's home secretary, Michael Howard, has learned that if modern technology makes it relatively easy to carry out intrusive surveillance operations against suspected criminals getting legislation through Parliament to make it easier for the police to use the gear in question is a far more difficult exercise. (...) [ 267 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

ISRAEL
MARKUS KLINGBERG
	Held in secret for 14 years, the Israeli scientist Markus Klingberg, who is serving a 20 year jail sentence for spying for the former USSR, appeared once again on Jan. (...) [ 250 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
JAMIL ASSAYED
	The refusal by Lebanese president Elias Hraoui and prime minister Rafic Hariri to promote col. Jamil Assayed, number two man in Lebanon's Military Intelligence service, to the rank of general along with seven other officers has sparked a sharp controversy in the country. (...) [ 327 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GEN. PETER DE LA BILLIERE
	Former Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers who have written books or taken part in filmed documentaries about the elite regiment have been punished by being barred from all special forces bases in the U. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
FREEMASONS AND THE JUDICIARY
	Britain's Association of Women Barristers (AWB) has recommended to the Commons Home Affairs committee that members of the Freemason Brotherhood who are appointed as judges should either resign their Masonic membership on the occasion or at least declare it publicly. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
JOINT STARS VS MUJAHIDEEN
	In the fight to head off terrorism, U.S. special forces deployed in Bosnia -- the Special Operations Command Implementation Force or SOCIFOR -- last year tested the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (Joint Stars) developed in tandem by the US Army and US Air Force. (...) [ 541 words ] [ €5 ]

BAHRAIN
8,000-MAN NATIONAL GUARD
	A decree published on Jan. 7 that created a National Guard in Bahrain along Saudi Arabian lines was the fruit of six months of secret moves to forge an 8,000-strong force halfway between the army and the police. (...) [ 333 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
HARD TIMES FOR GILLES MENAGE
	Chief-of-staff to former president Francois Mitterrand until 1992 -- and in that capacity in charge of intelligence issues -- Gilles Menage is presently looking for a job. (...) [ 144 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
THOMSON SECURITY BOSS DIES
	Head of security for the Thomson group since February, 1994, Fernand Colin died on Jan. (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
UNIONS BACK AT GCHQ
	Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher banned unions at the government's GCHQ communications center 13 years ago on grounds that the unions presented a "conflict of interest" vis a vis loyalty to the state. (...) [ 118 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
FIRST FORUM ON RIVIERA
	The general council in the Maritime Alps department is organizing the first Riviera Forum on Business Intelligence in Sophia Antipolis on Feb. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
LOOKING AHEAD
	A first international banking and information security conference (I.B.I.S. 97) on the theme of Securing the Future Now will be held in New York City between Feb. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	EGYPT/POLAND
	EGYPT AND POLAND IN SECURITY PACT
		After signing security pacts with Pakistan, Yemen and Bulgaria, the Egyptian government has sealed another with Poland. Officially, the two countries are going to trade intelligence on organized crime, drugs trafficking and terrorism. (...) [ 332 words ] [ €5 ]

	TURKEY
	ERBAKAN SHEDS LIGHT ON POLICY
		Intelligence Newsletter has obtained an Arabic-language copy of notes taken during a meeting that Moslem Brotherhood officials from Syria, Egypt and Jordan held with Turkish prime minister Necmettin Erbakan in Istanbul in early January. (...) [ 846 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
FIRST ROBOT HELICOPTERS OPERATIONAL
	Military intelligence has long made use of fixed-wing UAV's but the first unmanned helicopters are only now making their debut. (...) [ 465 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
BRITAIN WEIGHS LASER DEFENCE OPTION
	In coming days the British government will examine a recommendation from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that the U.K. start building a ballistic missile defence (BMD) system to protect its military forces in areas of conflict like the Gulf where the threat from a "rogue regime" is regarded as a "serious possibility" by MoD analysts. (...) [ 340 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
BREAKTHROUGHS IN MICRO AIR VEHICLES
	Only a few years ago it was impossible to think of developing unmanned micro air vehicles -- tiny versions of UAVs -- but advances in such areas as propulsion and inertial guidance have made an aircraft with a six-inch wingspan a likely reality in the next few years, according to experts in the field. (...) [ 189 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS
	An Atlanta-based company specializing in encryption software for the Internet, Querisoft, Inc. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FROM MISSILES TO CARS
	France's Aerospatiale presented ASERIS 97, a new version of its range of software to simulate electromagnetic phenomena, at the high power micro wave show Hyper'97 in Paris last week. (...) [ 127 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	RUSSIA
	RUSSIA WANTS TO ADOPT KEY ESCROW
		Russia is on the point of adopting a series of laws governing intellectual property, information security and cryptography. The Security Council's Committee for Computer Security chaired by Arkadi Golubkov, which has been working for a year to draft the laws, is made up of representatives from 15 government departments (defense, interior, economy and finance, telecommunications, military industries) and big state-run institutions like the Central Bank, FSB and FAPSI. (...) [ 344 words ] [ €5 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	PHONEY TRUCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
		The British government and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) appear to be in open disagreement over the status of the Protestant paramilitary cease-fire in Northern Ireland following the explosion of a car bomb that seriously injured prominent Belfast republican Eddie Copeland and the attempted murder of Sinn Fein election manager Liam Duffy in Londonderry. (...) [ 272 words ] [ €5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	INTELLIGENCE BOSSES AT DAVOS
		Many intelligence chiefs in charge of economic security will hold discreet talks of their own on the sidelines of the annual business summit in Davos between Feb. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	FRENCH FIRM SNAPPED UP
		The U.S. concern O'Gara Company has acquired Labbe, a French company that ranks as Europe's leading manufacturer of bullet-proof cars and commercial armored vehicles, for $14. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]