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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Just days after CIA chief George Tenet was reported to be planning to reduce the size, budget and role of the CIA's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) he announced that he would instead double its staff and give its director more clear-cut powers. (...) [ 595 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

JORDAN
HAMZE TAKES BACK SEAT TO HASSAN
	As Jordan went to the polls on Nov. 4 for elections largely boycotted by the opposition, king Hussein, his brother and crown prince, Hassan, and their third brother, Mohammed, reached a secret agreement on the succession to the Hashemite throne. (...) [ 260 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
REHAUL FOR SECURITY SERVICES
	The head of the General Intelligence Service, gen. Amin al Hindi, and the boss of the Preventive Security Service on the West Bank, col. (...) [ 359 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

FRANCE
FRANCOIS FAYARD
	Francois Fayard is slated to take over as director of France's Centre Electronique de l'Armement (CELAR) at the end of this month in succession to Michel Kervella, who will shortly be named to a new post by the government. (...) [ 259 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
WILLIAM CROWELL
	Less than two months after he retired as deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA), William Crowell has been hired by SRI International, one of the leading American companies in researching and developing new technology and in providing consultancy services. (...) [ 387 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
HUSSEIN ABDUL KHALEK
	The speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, needed to obtain support from Syria in Damascus before brigadier-general Hussein Abdul Khalek's appointment as secretary-general of Lebanon's Higher Defense Council could be announced the following day in Beirut. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
LOW TECH AT THE WHITE HOUSE
	Only days after the White House breathlessly unveiled a report by the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) on Oct. (...) [ 383 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
TRANSMISSION A POOR RELATIVE
	France's Centre de Transmissions Gouvernementales (CTG) is too poor to push through projects deemed vital to the country's security and which have been on hold for several years, according to Pierre Heriaud, a member of the French parliament. (...) [ 542 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
WHO WILL SUCCEED DANY YATOM?
	Several candidates are in the running to replace Dany Yatom, the head of Mossad who is expected to offer his resignation early next year in response to the botched assassination attempt against fundamentalist leader Khaled Meshal in Amman on Sept. (...) [ 196 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CHINA
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OVERHAUL
	According to Intelligence Newsletter's Chinese sources, the Foreign Armed Forces Research Department (Waijunbu) is presently being re-organized. (...) [ 67 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
CALL FOR WIDER VTR USE
	The new president of Britain's Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), 53-year-old West Mercia chief constable David Blakey, has disclosed that the ACPO is working to persuade the Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service to endorse a change in the law that would facilitate the greater use of video tape recorders as a means of "improving the criminal justice system. (...) [ 160 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

MIDDLE EAST
MANAGING OFFSETS IN THE GULF
	With offsets featuring in virtually all arms contracts in the Gulf, the IBC Gulf Conferences company is organizing a conference entitled "Offset & Business Development '97" in Abu Dhabi on Nov. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CONFERENCE
	The Computer Security Institute (CSI) is organizing its 24th "Computer Security" conference in Washington between Nov. (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	EUROPE
	WOOING SWEDEN INTO WEAO FOLD
		The most recent meeting of armaments bosses from member countries of the Western European Armaments Organization (WEAO) on Oct. 13 in Brussels agreed to the idea of bringing other countries linked to the Western European Union as associate members or observers into the agency. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

	LEBANON
	NASRALLAH SEEKS 3RD IRAN MANDATE
		The secretary-general of Hezbollah's Lebanese wing, sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has just carried out his longest visit to Iran since he took over as boss of the fundamentalist movement. (...) [ 463 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
FIRST NON-LETHAL WEAPONS
	Learning a lesson from the war in ex-Yugoslavia, French military chiefs are beginning to take a serious look at non-lethal weapons that they had previously tended to dismiss as "gadgets. (...) [ 552 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
RUSSIAN PCHELA-IT UAV IN CHECHNYA
	In its October issue, the British magazine Unmanned Vehicles revealed that the Russian Pchela-IT (Stroy-P system) UAV was tested by Russian army units during the war in Chechnya. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
OPEN DOOR FOR FLASHERS
	A low-tech and cost effective solution to identifying authorized persons has been provided by the Welsh company Visiscan Technology with the development of a lapel identification badge fitted with a tiny, flashing infra-red light. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MESAR 2 TESTS BEGIN
	Trials have started for the Royal Navy's multi-function, electronically-scanned, adapted radar system known as Mesar 2 which the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) has developed in tandem with the military contractor Siemens Plessey Systems. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
THE ANONYMOUS WEB SURFER
	The U.S. firm Luckman Interactive Inc. has developed a tool to help Internet users and corporations surf the Web anonymously. (...) [ 176 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE
		The FOPAC group in Interpol that sees particularly to money laundering issues met behind closed doors for its annual autumn seminar in Lyons on Oct. (...) [ 500 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	CRACKDOWN ON BENT COPPERS
		At least 100 British police officers have been suspended from duty as a result of two separate, wide-ranging anti-corruption probes being carried out by Scotland Yard's Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB). (...) [ 257 words ] [ €5 ]

	PALESTINE
	ABU NIDAL'S MEN SETTLE SCORES
		The secret war between various factions of Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council has erupted again in Beirut and Saida after a two year truce broken by isolated attacks, particularly against PLO representatives in the camps in Southern Lebanon. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

	CHINA
	BREAKTHROUGH FOR TRIADS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
		For the first time, the police who deal with foreigners (Grupo Operativo de Extranjeros) in the Spanish city of Valencia carried out a major raid last week in the town's Chinese community. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,5 ]