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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

BUMPY RIDE FOR CLINTON’S "CRYPTO CZAR"

Until he was named under-secretary of commerce for international trade last September, David Aaron worked for a year as Bill Clinton's "Crypto Czar" with the job of championing cryptography clamps based on a key recovery system. But the irascible and undiplomatic nature of the man who was U. (...) [ 654 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
NEW WORK FOR NUKE BLAST DETECTORS
	The end of the Cold War, personnel cuts and a fresh set of targets have combined to produce dramatic changes in operations of the U. (...) [ 572 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
RG CAUGHT IN LEGAL BIND
	The 4,000 policemen who work for France’s police intelligence agency Renseignements Generaux (RG) throughout the country draft 500 reports each day. (...) [ 398 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

COLOMBIA
ARNALDO BOTERO
	Arnaldo "Lucho" Botero, one of the key figures in the North Valley branch of the Columbian Cali cartel, which the Dutch justice ministry believes is responsible for 80% of the cocaine which reaches Europe, has been arrested in Willemstad, capital of the former Dutch Caribbean colony Curacao, and flown to Holland to face charges relating to drug trafficking and money laundering. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
THOMAS MCDERMOTT
	Former deputy director for information systems security at the National Security Agency (NSA), Thomas McDermott has been named senior vice president of CACI International, an American IT company. (...) [ 217 words ] [ €5 ]

SYRIA/YEMEN
NABIL MANAGLY
	The main suspect in a wave of assassinations and sabotage that struck Aden, in Yemen, some months ago, Nabil Managly, alias Kossaibatti, has no ties with Syrian intelligence. (...) [ 325 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
CHANGES AT DST (CONT.)
	Changes at the top at France’s DST which we reported in our last issue (IN 326) are to continue in coming weeks with the forthcoming departure of Marcel Jegou, sub-director in charge of technical questions. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €5 ]

SOUTH KOREA
KIM’S TIES WITH AGENCIES
	Once the bug-bear of South Korea’s spy agencies, who kidnapped him in Tokyo in 1972, new South Korean president Kim Dae Jung seems to have established ties with his one-time adversaries that now enable him to control their activites – and this despite the fact they openly campaigned for his rival, Lee Hoi Chang, in the recent election. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5 ONLY A PHONE CALL AWAY
	MI5 plans to set up a confidential telephone line next month to recruit informants inside terrorist organizations, spy rings and organized crime gangs. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
A FINANCEER FOR CIA
	As U.S. intelligence chiefs increasingly quit the branch to work for private companies someone has chosen to move in the opposite direction. (...) [ 86 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MI5 SHREDS OLD FILES
	Following the disclosure by a rogue MI5 agent that the security service had kept files on a number of prominent Labour Party politicians, including the present home secretary Jack Straw and his cabinet colleague Peter Mandelson (IN 318), MI5 has stepped up the destruction of thousands of files on individuals and organizations it once suspected of subversive activity. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED KINGDOM
INTERNET SECURITY
	The MIS Training Institute is organizing its second conference devoted to security on the web, Internet and intranets in London between March 10-12. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
EXPLOSIVES AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS
	The COPEX DC98 show will feature conferences organized in Washington on Feb. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	LEBANON
	AMAL STRIKES BLOW TO SLA
		The Lebanese Shi’ite movement Amal, which was drastically overhauled last June with the help of Syrian and Lebanese officers, claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Jan. (...) [ 666 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAQ
	OPPOSITION’S SECRET STRUGGLE
		The Iraqi security agencies, supervised by officials from Rafeh al Takriti’s General Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat al Amat), have been working since early January to dismantle clandestine units of certain pro-Iranian fundamentalist movements and nationalist Sunni groups. (...) [ 313 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
BIOMETRIC SHIELD FOR PRE-BOOTING
	A computer is never more vulnerable to outside attack than during the pre-booting phase just after the machine has been turned on but before its operating system has swung into action. (...) [ 400 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
A GIANT DATA MINING CENTER
	Two companies that specialize in data mining and assisting in decision-making, WhiteCross Systems and MRJ Technology Solutions, announced on Jan. (...) [ 352 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MILITARY FUNDS BIOMIMETIC RESEARCH
	The U.K. defence ministry’s Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) has awarded a series of specialized contracts to Reading University’s Center for Biomimetics to study potential military application of the structural composition and behaviour of plants, animals and insects to create materials that copy the same concept by developing a synergy between biology and engineering. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
BRITISH POLICE CALL FOR NEW SYSTEMS
	Eight leading information technology companies and consortia have been asked by the London Metropolitan Police Service Department of Technology to tender for software for the national 999 emergency telephone system. (...) [ 157 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET
	The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munitions Directorate has developed a camera that can freeze the motion of the fastest projectile or fragment in flight to allow its size and velocity to be measured. (...) [ 84 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	LONDON TO RUN AUDIT ON TAX HAVENS
		Britain's Home Secretary, Jack Straw, said on Jan. 20 that Britain was about to conduct a full-scale review of financial regulations and practices in the Channel Island tax havens of Jersey and Guernsey and in the Isle of Man. (...) [ 314 words ] [ €5 ]

	JAPAN
	SPYING WIVES COME TO THE RESCUE
		A year after Japan’s new military intelligence service (Johohonbu) was set up, its chief, gen. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	PAY BACK TIME FOR ROLLS ROYCE
		The British company Rolls Royce has agreed to pay millions of pounds in commission to Aerospace Engineering Design Corp. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	CRACKDOWN ON POLICE
		Britain’s home secreteary, Jack Straw, is expected to cite a detailed and critical report into police corruption as reason for launching reforms of the police complaints system and disciplinary procedures. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EUROPE
	IDENTIFYING CAR-JACKING CULPRITS
		A report prepared for Britain's Foreign Office by MI6 has confirmed that the spate of armed car-jackings in Brussels involving Eurocrats and diplomats over the past four months is the work of at least two East European criminal gangs. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]