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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

A flurry of recent ballistic weapons tests highlights the importance of an obscure intelligence organization that is soon to celebrate its 35th anniversary in helping the U.S. to monitor new missile developments across the world. And to equally underscore the crucial role played by the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center (DEFSMAC), its personnel was recently increased from 100 to 230 and it inaugurated a new, 85-staff operations center in April. (...) [ 677 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

NETHERLANDS
A SPY AGENCY'S DEEPEST SECRETS
	For the first time next week Dutch readers will be treated to an scorching account of the history of Holland's foreign intelligence agency, Inlichtingendienst Buitenland (IDB). (...) [ 299 words ] [ €5 ]

BURMA
MAJOR PUSH BY TAIWAN INTELLIGENCE
	The Rangoon bureau of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been leaking information over the past two weeks on a major offensive by Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau in former Indochina and in Burma. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
GEN. MICHAEL ROSE
	The former head of British Special Forces and commander-in-chief of the UN Protection Force in Bosnia in 1994-95, gen. Michael Rose, who retired in 1996, has claimed that his headquarters in Sarajevo was bugged by American intelligence and that all his classified communications with London and the U. (...) [ 312 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
LEO MULLIN
	President and CEO of Delta Airlines since August, 1997, Leon Mullin has just been named a member of the President's Export Council by Bill Clinton. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
HAMED AL JBOURI
	Confronted with political and religious rifts that divide the 70-odd Iraqi opposition movements, the U.S. and British authorities recently alighted on the name of Hamed al Jbouri in their attempt to unite the various parties around a charter for a new democratic Iraq. (...) [ 354 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
STATE SECRET OR OPENNESS...
	The Belgian Parliament's intelligence oversight committee, Comite de Controle des Services de Renseignement -- known as R Committee for short – has teamed up for the first time with the country's Institut Royal Superieur de Defense to organize a major international seminar in Brussels on January 20 on the theme "State Secret or Openness. (...) [ 226 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
BATTLE AGAINST AN OLD TABOO
	Admiral Pierre Lacoste, who was chief of France's DGSE between 1983-85, has long been claiming that "intelligence should cease to be taboo subject in France. (...) [ 332 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
FIGHTING THE ENEMY WITHIN
	A new British law enforcement agency named the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) has been formed to target "eco warriors," people who disrupt hunting events, industrial militants, anarchists and the far-right National Front. (...) [ 327 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
SHABAK TAKES UP THE FIGHT
	Over the past month the Israeli general security service Shabak has stepped up its efforts to infiltrate sects. (...) [ 106 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MASONIC LINKS OFFICIALLY DISCLOSED
	At least one in seven male magistrates in the U.K. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GERMANY
SCHRODER PUSHES OFFENSIVE AGAINST SCIENTOLOGY
	As rumors abound in France that the Church of Scientology could be broken up, the new German government of Gerhard Schroder has confirmed it will keep a close watch on the sect that claims 10,000 members in Germany. (...) [ 202 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
ANNUAL RSA CONFERENCE
	For the first time, the 1999 version of the renowned annual RSA Data Security conference will present a workshop at which NSA operatives will outline the activities of the agency. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
SMART WEAPONS
	Admiral Pierre Lacoste, former head of France's DGSE, will chair a seminar on smart weapons in Paris on Dec. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS
	Under the auspices of professor Daniel Rouach, the GTI Lab (research center) of the Ecole Europeenne des Affaires (EAP: (...) [ 105 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE
	NO PROBLEM LISTENING IN ON IRIDIUM
		French law enforcement and counter-espionage agencies who were so worried this summer about the advent of satellite-based telephone systems that they opposed allowing Iridium to be marketed in France (IN 339) are breathing easier at present. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €5 ]

	RUSSIA/SWITZERLAND
	SWISS STRIKE FIRST AGAINST RUSSIAN GANGS
		For the first time in West Europe Switzerland will put a leading Russian gangster on trial on Nov. 30. But Sergei Mikhailov, a 40-year-old considered as the head of a Russian gang in the Moscow region, the Solntsevskaya (IN 308) he won't find himself in an assizes court but rather before an ordinary police court. (...) [ 323 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
ANY BRIGHT IDEAS ON DROPPING LEAFLETS?
	The U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill air force base in Florida recently asked the defense industry to come up with ideas on developing a new psychological operations "leaflet delivery" system. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
HUNTER A BOON OR A BUST?
	The French military is beginning to wonder what it will do with its Hunter UAVs that were built by the Israeli constructor IAI. (...) [ 523 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER
	The French firm Memogarde has just begun marketing a card that can automatically encrypt everything on a laptop computer's hard disk in a transparent manner for the user. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
REAL-TIME IN KOSOVO
	NATO's operation "Eagle Eye" to verify the agreement on the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo relieves heavily on Predator UAV's deployed by the U. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FIRST FOX FOR FRENCH ARMY
	The Fox-MLCS drone system is to be delivered to France's 7th artillery regiment in September, 1999. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	LONDON KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH MERCENARIES
		Senior Foreign Office officials in Britain have been in touch three times with Tim Spicer, boss of the London-based security/mercenary company Sandline International, since the "arms for Africa" affair surfaced earlier this year, according to John Kerr, permanent secretary at the FO. (...) [ 334 words ] [ €5 ]

	EGYPT
	HOW "ALBANIAN" EGYPTIANS OPERATE
		Egyptian military police are still questioning 14 militant members of the Jihad movement who were extradited from Albania in July. (...) [ 743 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	200 NEW SWISS ACCOUNTS IN ELF AFFAIR
		The Swiss investigating magistrate Jean-Paul Perraudin who is conducting around 40 separate international inquiries into the Elf affair in France, is poised to send a list of 200 Swiss bank accounts to his counterparts in France, Eva Joly and Laurence Vishnievsky. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €1,5 ]