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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK

Space-based intelligence is set to become a commodity like any other this year. Apart from a few exceptions (Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea) military and civil intelligence agencies across the globe will be able to buy high definition imagery off-the-shelf. (...) [ 631 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
CHANGES AT THE TOP AT DST
	Appointed chief of France's Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) by Lionel Jospin's socialist government four months ago, Jacques Pascal could have seized the retirement of his deputy, Raymond Nart, on Jan. (...) [ 265 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
JAIL FOR SPY-CUM-WRITER
	Richard Tomlinson, a veteran of MI6 covert operations in Russia, the Middle East and Bosnia, was jailed for 12 months in London on Dec. (...) [ 374 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
KEVIN TEBBIT
	Kevin Tebbit, a former deputy under-secretary at Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the most senior liaison official between the two intelligence services under the foreign secretary's authority, MI6 and GCHQ, has been named director-general of the Cheltenham-based SIGINT complex. (...) [ 162 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
JAMES KALLSTROM
	Head of the FBI's New York office, James Kallstrom gained widespread renown last year when he led the inquiry into the explosion aboard TWA's Flight 800 in July, 1996. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
EMILE LAHOUD
	Visiting Beirut on Dec. 16, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, Martin Indyk, surprised his Lebanese hosts by asking on the spot to meet with the army commander-in-chief, gen. (...) [ 348 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SNAPSHOT
	The U.S. Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), which marked its fourth anniversary in October, bears the hallmarks of two trends in post Cold War American military intelligence -- it rolls varied operational intelligence functions into one organization and has suffered significant staff cuts. (...) [ 667 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON/TURKEY
PKK RECRUITS AND CALLS OFFENSIVE
	Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) decided at a meeting of its operational chiefs in Lebanon's Bekaa valley on Dec. (...) [ 327 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
SEEKING TIGHTER CLAMPS ON SECURITY AND POLICE EQUIPMENT
	A report entitled "Materiels Francais de Securite et de Police - Production, Commerce and Droits de l'Homme" (French Security and Police Equipment: (...) [ 240 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CHINA
GONGANBU TIGHTENS CLAMPS ON INTERNET
	Zhu Entao, who has been in charge of the international department at the Public Security Ministry (Gonganbu) since 1988, has been asked to apply tighter curbs on the use of the Internet in China. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

EUROPE
OPEN SOURCES AND INTELLIGENCE
	The EuroIntel '98 conference organized by Open Source Solutions (OSS) between March 24-26 in Brussels will be the first of its type in Europe. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW SYSTEMS AND STRATEGIES
	The SMI company is organizing a conference in London on March 26-27 in conjunction with Intelligence Online (Indigo Publications) on the theme of: (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS AND INNOVATION IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
	The seventh annual "Entretiens de la Technologie" (Technology Consultations) organized by the Association des Centraliens and chaired by Claude Neuschwander will be held on March 31-April 1 at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	SECRETS OF THE NEW SCIENCE
		The French are still waiting for the government to apply a decree that will start easing clamps on the sale of encryption equipment and software (IN 324). (...) [ 287 words ] [ €5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	SWISS DISCOVER BIG BROTHER
		Since the start of the new year the Swiss post office no longer sees to monitoring mail or tapping telephones. (...) [ 378 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK
	Space-based intelligence is set to become a commodity like any other this year. Apart from a few exceptions (Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea) military and civil intelligence agencies across the globe will be able to buy high definition imagery off-the-shelf. (...) [ 631 words ] [ €8 ]

UNITED STATES
FINDING MILINT & LINGUISTIC SKILLS
	The U.S. assistant secretary of defense for C3I and assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs have launched a cooperative effort called the Joint Reserve Intelligence Planning Support System (JRIPSS) to tie reserve intelligence and linguistic skills more effectively into the DoD's Total Force requirements. (...) [ 481 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
REMOTE VIDEO FOR LONG-RANGE SECURITY
	Germany's Plettac Electronic Security company has designed a new system to transmit video pictures from remote sites within a closed circuit as a spinoff from a system that it acquired from Grundig Electronics in January, 1997. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW STUN-GUN
	The British Home Office's Police Scientific Development Branch (PSDB) is conducting evaluation tests on Air Taser, a stun-gun which its U. (...) [ 160 words ] [ €1,5 ]

AUSTRALIA
CANBERRA SPELLS OUT NEEDS
	The Australian government has called on the Australian Defence Scientific and Technology Organization (DSTO) to conduct a detailed survey of Australia's UAV requirements. (...) [ 122 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CANADA
NEW CRYPTOGRAPHY CHAIRS AT WATERLOO UNIVERSITY
	Canada's University of Waterloo has joined with Certicom Corp and Pitney Bowes Inc. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	IRAQ AT CENTER OF GCC RIFT
		The dull communique that marked the end of the 18th summit meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council on Dec. 22 concealed what was in fact an angry standoff between Kuwait, which hosted the gathering, and the United Arab Emirates. (...) [ 654 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	FLYING SQUAD UNDER CLOUD
		In what has been described as one of the most serious corruption inquiries in decades, officers from Scotland Yard's Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB2) raided the Walthamstow, east London offices of the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad. (...) [ 410 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	WESTLAND MENDS FENCES
		A team of technical and management personnel from the U.K. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BELGIUM
	SWIFT RISE IN MONEY LAUNDERING
		The Belgian police investigated 7,135 cases of suspected money laundering between July, 1996 and July of last year compared to just 4,480 cases in the previous 12 month period. (...) [ 125 words ] [ €1,5 ]