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SPOTLIGHT

IRAQ

BAGHDAD SEEKS ITS LOST TREASURE

By imposing censorship last week on press reports of the brutal slaying of four Iraqi businessmen along with an Iraqi diplomat, his wife and two Egyptian bodyguards in a rich neighborhood in Amman on the night of Jan. 17-18 the Jordanian government showed just how deeply troubled it was by the affair. (...) [ 672 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
DST TAKES TECHNICAL TACK
	Named head of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) in late August, Jean-Jacques Pascal has just undertaken a major shakeup in the function and careers of France's counter-espionage policemen. (...) [ 306 words ] [ €5 ]

NETHERLANDS
CLOUD OVER FIGHTER PROJECT
	Dutch sources at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have told Intelligence Newsletter the Netherlands is increasingly worried over the prospects of long-term cooperation with the United States on the Amercian Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft program. (...) [ 293 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
RICHARD WILHEM
	Retired U.S. Navy captain Richard Wilhem, who was the head of NSA's Information Warfare program in the early 1990s, has taken a job with the Booz, Allen & Hamilton consultancy. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
DAI BINGGUO
	Now that Dai Bingguo has headed it since last summer, the International Relations Department of the Chinese communist party's Central Committee (known as Zhongyang Lianluobu) appears less "cloak and dagger" than in the past and its role more comparable to that of diplomatic intelligence agencies like the State Department's INR and Gaimusho Johobu in Japan. (...) [ 302 words ] [ €5 ]

EGYPT
YASSER AL SIRRI
	Sentenced to death in Egypt following the attempt on the life of former prime minister Atef Sedki in 1994 and now living in exile in Britain, Yasser al Sirri founded the Islamic Observation Center in 1995. (...) [ 360 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
GLOOMY DAYS AHEAD, SAY BOSSES
	The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence received a relatively pessimistic assessment of the future from four of the nation's intelligence chiefs who testified last week on "current and projected national security threats. (...) [ 639 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
OVERHAUL AT OSS INC
	The Open Sources Solutions group set up by Robert Steele has made a fresh advance by appointing Mark Lowenthal as president and Chief Executive Officer of OSS USA, a new body that works exclusively for U. (...) [ 272 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NSA TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
	Clinton Brooks, who had served up to now as special assistant to the NSA director for equities, has been named to the newly-created post of NSA's Knowledge Management Office. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST MOVES OVER TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
	Ron Lee, the former general counsel of the NSA and CIA, has been named assistant deputy attorney general. (...) [ 96 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
AN ADMIRAL AT DRM
	As had been expected for some weeks, rear-admiral Yves de Kersauson de Pennendreff, who was promoted to vice-admiral in early January, was named head of the French military intelligence agency DRM by the government on Jan. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
NINTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
	The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA. which was formed in March 1997 out of the merger between the American Defense Preparedness Association and the National Security Industrial Association) is organizing the ninth annual symposium devoted to special operations and low intensity conflict (SO/LIC) at Arlington, Virginia, between Feb. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
NETWORKS AND STRATEGIC INFORMATION
	The Centre International de Sciences Criminelles de Paris (CISCP) is organizing an "intensive seminar" in Paris on March 20 that will be devoted to both business and financial intelligence. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	JAPAN/RUSSIA
	KOANCHO ROLLS UP SVR NETWORK
		As Intelligence Newsletter revealed in October (IN 321) following the affair of the mole Kuroba Ichiro, Japan's counter-intelligence agency, Koancho, has been pushing through a probe of Russian SVR networks operating in Japan. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/IRAQ
	REPORT SLAMS FAULTY INTELLIGENCE IN GULF
		In a report that has just been released, the Director of Central Intelligence's Persian Gulf War Illness Task Force declared that shortcomings in the analysis and dissemination of intelligence contributed to the failure to warn troops responsible for destroying the Khamisiyah facility in Iraq that it might contain chemical weapons. (...) [ 635 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
ANYBODY NEED A GPS JAMMER?
	A Moscow-based company, Aviaconversia, claims to have developed a device capable of jamming Global Position System (GPS) signals over a 200 km radius. (...) [ 503 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
STANDARDS FOR BIOMETRIC ID
	Several American companies specializing in biometric identification systems, including Biometric Identification, Computer Data Systems, Identification Technologies, ITT Industries, Keyware Technologies, Miros, T-Netix, Verdicom, Visionics and Who? (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
SMART CARD FOR BRITISH
	Scientists at the Central Information Technology Unit (CITU) in London have completed work on the technology and software needed to provide every British citizen with a smart card containing a microchip and personal identification code which can be used in banks and post offices across the country. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €1,5 ]

JAPAN
NEXT GENERATION FOR ENCRYPTION
	Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed a system that incorporates elliptic-curve cryptosystems (ECC) into smart cards at low cost. (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
CHEAPER WAY FOR SECURE DATA TRANSFERS
	A U.S. Air Force sergeant specializing in communications programming has come up with a cheaper and better way to send encrypted data over telephone lines. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	THE NEW BARBARIANS
		A new breed of assassins has emerged from the recent recruitment drive of Protestant paramilitary organizations in Northern Ireland, according to an internal Royal Ulster Constabulary briefing following a wave of sectarian attacks across the province in which 27 Catholics have been shot, 11 of them fatally. (...) [ 237 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM/INDIA
	WEAPONS FOR ANANDA MARG
		Britain's Foreign Office has refused to intervene in the case of Peter Bleach, a British arms dealer facing trial in India on 12 capital charges of supplying weapons to the Hindu separatist movement Ananda Marg for the purpose of waging war against the government. (...) [ 687 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	BRITAIN'S ANTI-CORRUPTION COPS
		Britain's law and order landscape is becoming increasingly crowded with the creation of yet another team of specialized detectives dedicated to investigating police corruption. (...) [ 219 words ] [ €1,5 ]