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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED KINGDOM

SPY AGENCIES TO ACCOUNT FOR SPENDING

For the first time ever Britain's intelligence services are going to come under financial scrutiny as part of the government's drive to look into civil service expenditure at all levels over the coming 18 months. The review was confirmed by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Alistair Darling, who said the operational costs, aims and objectives of MI5, MI6 and the Cheltenham-based global eavesdropping network GCHQ would be examined along with their usefulness to other government departments and the scope for partnership with the private sector in tackling specific intelligence tasks. (...) [ 602 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

NORTHERN IRELAND
OFFICIAL PROTECTION FOR SINN FEIN
	Britain's Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has decided to offer protection to senior members of Sinn Fein under the Key Persons Protection Scheme (KPPS) normally available to judges, top civil servants, members of parliament and others believed by MI5 to run a security risk in Northern Ireland. (...) [ 299 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA
	The National Security Agency is radically overhauling the structure of its Directorate of Operations, ending the latter's 45-year-long practice of collecting and analyzing intelligence on a region-by-region basis. (...) [ 704 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

EGYPT
HABIB ADELI
	Appointed by president Hosni Mubarak after the Luxor attack on Nov. 17, Egypt's new interior minister, Habib Adeli, who was director of the State Security Service (Mabahes Amn al Daoula) since 1995, is known for his wide knowledge of fundamentalist movements. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MILOSH STANKOVIC
	Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that major Milosh Stankovic of the Parachute Regiment's 1st battalion has been arrested and questioned by Scotland Yard Special Branch officers under Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act which covers espionage and passing classified information that may be of use to an enemy. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €5 ]

ALGERIA
AHMED ZAOUI
	After fleeing from Belgium and appealing for political asylum in Switzerland, Ahmed Zaoui, suspected of being one of the main external leaders of Algeria's GIA, has rather curiously been put under restricted residence by the Office Federal des Refugies in the small Swiss village of St. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINE
TROIKA TO SUCCEED ARAFAT
	When Yasser Arafat arrived at Cairo airport on Nov. 26 from a trip to India the president of the Palestinian Authority was surprised to find that Egyptian foreign minister Amr Mussa who had turned up to greet him was accompanied by no less than six doctors from al Maadi hospital in the Cairo suburbs. (...) [ 656 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
SECRET REPORTS SLAMS MOSSAD'S WAY OF OPERATING
	The Knesset's sub-committee on the intelligence services met behind closed doors on Dec. (...) [ 160 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SYRIA
NEW U.S. ENVOY
	President Bill Clinton has nominated one of the U.S. state department's leading experts on the Middle East to the highly sensitive post of ambassador to Syria. (...) [ 104 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
SEVENTH RSA CONFERENCE
	RSA Data Security is organizing its renowned annual gathering devoted to encryption in San Francisco between Jan. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE/FRANCE
WHAT FUTURE FOR DEFENSE?
	Two conferences devoted to defense issues -- one focussing on European/U. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	MIDDLE EAST
	IRAQ AND SAUDIS BREAK THE ICE
		Iraq's vice president, Ezzat Ibrahim al Douri, who acts unofficially as prime minister, carried out a secret visit to Saudi Arabia on November 8 just before the crisis erupted between Iraq and the United States. (...) [ 234 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	WEAO GROWS IN NATO'S SHADOW
		The ministerial meeting of the Western European Armaments Organization (WEAO) in Erfurt, Germany, on Nov. 18 confirmed a proposal by the national armaments directors to bring countries that have associate or observer status with the Western European Union (WEU: (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
EVER-FASTER MOVE TO DUAL USE TECH
	Organized by Sofremi, a state-run establishment under the wing of France's interior ministry, the international Milipol exhibition held at Le Bourget in Paris between Nov. (...) [ 464 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW TWIST IN CHINOOK SAGA
	Britain's Ministry of Defence has finally admitted that independent technical experts at the MoD's experimental air base at Boscombe Down were unable to complete an assessment of the reliability of new engine control software aboard the RAF's fleet of Chinook Mk11 helicopters. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
NEW SYSTEM FOR FROGMEN
	The U.S. company Ocean Technology Systems, represented in France by Realisations et Conseils Hyperbares north of Paris, displayed a new individual underwater communication system for military frogmen during the Milipol 97 exhibition in Paris in November. (...) [ 134 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
A SPY KIT
	The Russians flocked to the Milipol exhibition at Le Bourget in Paris in unprecedented numbers in November. (...) [ 123 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GOVERNMENT SYSTEM A MARKET CHAMPION
	The British government's official information technology risk, analysis and mangement software package known as Cramm V3 was one of 11 finalists from 63 contestants to compete for the coveted 1997 British Computer Society (BCS) medal for innovation and application. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	NON-LETHAL WEAPONS STILL TABOO TO MILITARY
		Non-lethal weapons remain largely taboo to the French military establishment. A sharp clash on the issue occurred when the French defence ministry and the armaments board -- Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA) -- began preparing for the 1998 Entretiens Science et Defense (Science and Defence Meetings) which they organize every year. (...) [ 466 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	ISRAEL CATCHES IRAQI AGENTS
		Israel's general security service, Shabak, rounded up two new persons suspected of spying for Iraqi military intelligence following last summer's arrest of an Israeli woman of Arab origin on a similar charge. (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

	EGYPT
	QUESTION MARK OVER LUXOR ATTACK
		In naming Habib Adeli as Egypt's new interior minister (see p.8), president Hosni Mubarak also asked him to chair the commission of inquiry into the deadly attack at Luxor on Nov. (...) [ 463 words ] [ €5 ]

	JAPAN
	A BLOW FOR CHINESE INTELLIGENCE
		The reported affair between Japan's current prime minister, Hashimoto Ryutaro, with a woman spy from the Chinese state security ministry (Guoanbu) in the late 1970s is continuing to poison Sino-Japanese relations (IN 323). (...) [ 161 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EUROPE
	EAA DELAYED
		The first operational parts of the European Armaments Agency (EAA) that the Maastricht Treaty provides for are unlikely to fall into place before the years 2000-2001 and another year or two will be needed before the organization is fully up and running. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,5 ]