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SPOTLIGHT

FRANCE

A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

French defence minister Alain Richard had a lot of trouble in recent months in persuading his counter-part at the interior ministry, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, to give him back Philippe Rondot who was serving as diplomatic adviser to the head of France's Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) Finally put at the minister's "disposal" on Nov. (...) [ 667 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
NATO SLAMS U.S. ARMS SALES
	Opposition is slowly building up within official NATO circles against the sale of sophisticated Western armaments to central and east European countries and specifically to the three that are knocking on NATO's door --Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary -- for which the problem is particularly relevant. (...) [ 316 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
STREAMLINING INTELLIGENCE EFFORT
	The Defense Department is poised to introduce major changes in the way it manages its intelligence and reconnaissance operations and to cut back on staff engaged in those operations. (...) [ 468 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

CHINA
JIA CHUNWANG
	Chinese sources believe that China's spy czar, Jia Chunwang, head of the state security ministry (Guoanbu) will be put out to grass in coming months. (...) [ 271 words ] [ €5 ]

NORTHERN IRELAND
ROBERT JOHN KERR
	Mystery surrounds the death of Robert John Kerr, a prominent Protestant loyalist whose body was found near the burned-out shell of his cabin cruiser at a parking site on the road between Newry and Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland on Nov. (...) [ 255 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAN
HUSSEIN ALAY
	Recently named chief-of-staff of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (Pasdarans) in succession to gen. Mohamed Baker Zualkader, gen. Hussein Alay is a pure product of the Iranian revolution. (...) [ 348 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
LIFT-OFF FOR NEW NRO SATELLITE
	A rocket carrying a SIGINT satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office was hoisted into space from Cape Canaveral on Nov. (...) [ 474 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5'S NEWSWORTHY "FAILURE"
	Home Secretary Jack Straw and the head of MI5, Stephen Lander, have denied allegations by former agent David Shayler (IN 318) that MI5 had ignored a specific intelligence warning of an attack on the Israeli embassy in London in 1994. (...) [ 414 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
FIRST REPRIMAND FOR MOSSAD
	While waiting for Mossad's boss, Dany Yatom, to leave office in response to the service's abortive attempt to kill a Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal, in Amman on Sept. (...) [ 106 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW LAWS FOR NEXT DECADE
	Home Secretary Jack Straw has announced plans to replace Britain's existing and temporary anti-terrorist legislation -- known as the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and the Emergency Provisions Act (EPA) -- with permanent, UK-wide anti-terror measures by the end of 1999. (...) [ 125 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
DGSE BUDGET DROPS
	France's 1998 budget calls for a 14% cut in money for equipment at DGSE. (...) [ 98 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
MINIMIZING CRIMINAL THREAT IN COMPANIES
	With the number of company bosses spending time behind bars steadily rising these days in France, the firm Development Institute International (DII) had the idea of organizing a seminar in Paris between Jan. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MAINTAINING EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS
	The question of maintaining military equipment and armaments systems for the next decade will lie at the center of a conference organized by the SMI company in London on Jan. (...) [ 104 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	JAPAN
	HASHIMOTO CAUGHT IN HONEY POT?
		Did Japanese prime minister Hashimoto Ryutaro succumb to the charms of a beautiful Chinese spy? Did he have an affair in the late 1970s when he was health minister with a young Chinese diplomat who turned out to be a spy for Guoanbu, the Chinese state security ministry? (...) [ 285 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	RIYAD FORBIDS USE OF BASES
		The Saudi Arabian defense minister, prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz, who is recovering in Morocco from an operation in Switzerland in October (IN 321), has forbidden U. (...) [ 374 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPE
INTERCEPTION IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT
	Spectronic Denmark, a world leader in electronic surveillance equipment for government agencies, recently introduced new equipment allowing for the remote-control interception and monitoring of analog communications (voice, fax, data) whether they be transmitted via a switched telephone network or pagers. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY
	Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) handed to President Bill Clinton recommended that a National Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NISAC) be set up to gather information in the private sector on computer and network vulnerabilities. (...) [ 352 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
TIGHTER CLAMPS FOR AIR FORCE
	The U.S. Force has picked the Internet Scanner software produced by Internet Security Systems Inc (ISS) to provide overall network security at more than 100 bases across the world. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SCANDINAVIAN LINK-UP
	The California-based company Printrak International Inc. has won contracts worth $1. (...) [ 195 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
SECURITY ON THE INTERNET
	The California company Digital Persona has unveiled a fingerprint identification system for personal computers and the Internet that it claims can provide foolproof security. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	NEW ORGANIZATION IN JORDAN?
		The Jordanian authorities have failed as yet to identify who attacked two security agents at the Israeli embassy in Amman last Sept. (...) [ 472 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM
	A SHARED FRANCO-BRITISH VIEW
		During a seminar on Nov. 6 at the Ecole Militaire (Military College) in Paris, lieut.-col. Felix Faucon from the Centre d'Etudes et de Prospective (CEP), the think-tank of the French army's general staff, presented the findings of an in-depth examination of Infowar for the first time. (...) [ 625 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	KEEPING THE COPPERS STRAIGHT
		Roy Penrose, the recently-appointed director of Britain's National Crime Squad (NCS) has put police corruption and ways of avoiding it high on the country's law-and-order priority list. (...) [ 127 words ] [ €1,5 ]