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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/MIDDLE EAST

NEW TWISTS IN LONDON-WASHINGTON-TEHRAN GAME

The striking political efforts undertaken by Washington, London and Tehran to back opposition Iraqi movements continued during U.S. and British air strikes against Iraq. On Dec. 10, Ali Agha Mohammadi, a member of Iran's National Security Council who handles the Iraqi brief in Tehran, set out on a secret visit to London to meet with opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime. (...) [ 684 words ] [ €7 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
SHARP RISE IN SPENDING
	Prime minister Lionel Jospin has formally proposed to president Jacques Chirac that the director of France's DGSE, Jacques Dewatre, be replaced after holding the job since June, 1993. (...) [ 412 words ] [ €4 ]

NORTH KOREA
THE SPIES WHO DOUBLE AS TRAFFICKERS
	North Korea's intelligence services are throwing themselves increasingly into international traffic of all sorts – in fake currency, exotic animals, narcotics and works of art – in order to finance their operations while filling the pockets of their senior executives. (...) [ 261 words ] [ €4 ]

WHO'S WHO

PALESTINE
OMAR AL HASSAN
	Member of a well-known Palestinian family close to Yasser Arafat, Omar al Hassan is currently at the center of a controversy in Britain over relations between some Labour legislators and the Emirate of Bahrain. (...) [ 167 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
DAVID GORE-BOOTH
	The 34-year diplomatic career of David Gore-Booth, the British High Commissioner in India, ended in late December when he quit the Foreign Office to "take on new challenges in the private sector. (...) [ 339 words ] [ €4 ]

IRAQ
MOHAMMAD BAQR AL HAKIM
	Born into a family of ulemas in Najaf, one of the holy sites of the Shi'ite faith, Mohammad Baqr al Hakim is probably the most dangerous opponent of Saddam Husseim today. (...) [ 389 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
EXTRA FUNDING FOR NRO
	The National Reconnaissance Office will be a big beneficiary of a $1.5 billion increase in intelligence spending in the 1999 fiscal year. (...) [ 588 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
DE-CLASSIFYING THE OBVIOUS AND THE LESS SO
	Over the last several years the National Security Agency has declassified a variety of facts about operational and administrative matters, both in the past and currently. (...) [ 539 words ] [ €4 ]

CHINA
BEEFING UP SIGINT CAPACITY IN HAINAN
	According to Intelligence Newsletter's regional sources, Chinese military intelligence is working to beef up the capacity of its SIGINT stations on the island of Hainan south of China. (...) [ 192 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Agenda

BELGIUM
STATE SECRET OR TRANSPARENCY?
	Belgium's Comite Permanent de Controle des Services de Renseignement (Comite R: (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,3 ]

UNITED STATES
11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MONEY LAUNDERING IN MIAMI
	Oceana Publications and the University of Florida's Center for International Financial Crimes Studies are organizing the 11th international conference on money-laundering, cybercrime and international financial crime in Miami on Feb. (...) [ 153 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES
	U.S. MOUNTS WIDER DEFENSE
		The Central Intelligence Agency is actively tracking nations that it believes to be pursuing offensive and defensive information warfare capability. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €4 ]

	EUROPE/SWITZERLAND
	"GENEVA APPEAL" FALLS FLAT--IN GENEVA
		Has the "Geneva Appeal" launched by the Geneva district's public prosecutor and six other European magistrates in October, 1997 to fight against international financial crime been laid to rest? (...) [ 620 words ] [ €4 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
COMPETITION BETWEEN MINI-UAVS
	Three medium-sized French aeronautics companies are going to compete fiercely with one another in coming months on the market for ultra-light UAV's that can be carried by an infantry soldier to enable military forces to see "over the hill. (...) [ 413 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
FIRST SALES FOR COMMERCIAL IMAGERY
	Two American space imagery companies, Orbimage and Space Imaging, announced on Oct. 30 and Dec. 11 that they had signed the first contracts with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) for the supply of commercial pictures to the American government. (...) [ 421 words ] [ €4 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW FINGERPRINT SYSTEM
	The small U.S. concern Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc. (DDSI) revealed recently that the FBI had begun a certification procedure for its new Compu-Scan device which it describes as the "only contact-less device to capture fingerprints currently available. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,3 ]

EUROPE
THE ENEMY ISN'T ONLY IN THE EAST
	The German Army's COMINT 940 unit based at Daun has acquired a new Rohde & Schwartz antenna that enables it to cover 380°. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,3 ]

BELGIUM
THE ARMY BUYS HUNTER
	Belgium has joined the United States and France in acquiring the Hunter UAV built by the Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) company. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	PKK REVAMPS MILITARY WING
		The military branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has undergone a complete revamp with fresh backing from Iran following the abrupt halt to Syrian assistance after an agreement between Syria and Turkey on Oct. (...) [ 346 words ] [ €4 ]

	MONACO
	POLICE UP IN ARMS AGAINST MONEY LAUDERING
		Legal institutions and the police in Monaco have been shaken by crisis in recent months over the principality's emergence as one of Europe's main money-laundering hubs due essentially to a huge influx of Russian money (IN 345). (...) [ 267 words ] [ €4 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	POLICE CHIEFS GET TOUGH AGAINST CORRUPTION
		Britain's Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has established a task force to determine the extent of corruption in the 43 English and Welsh police forces. (...) [ 187 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	MILLENIUM BUG THREATENS DEFENSE SYSTEMS
		More than 1,000 front line and 18,000 non-critical Ministry of Defence (MoD) computer systems remain unprotected from the millenium bug, according to the latest quarterly report provided by the MoD to the Cabinet Office and confirmed by defence secretary George Robertson. (...) [ 234 words ] [ €1,3 ]