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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/MIDDLE EAST

CIA NEGOTIATES IN TEHRAN WITH IRAQI SHI'ITES

When U.S. assistant secretary of state Martin Indyk met officially in London on Nov. 24 with the main Iraqi opposition groups only one movement was conspicuously absent: Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI). The ostensible boycot of the main Shi'ite opposition organization contrasted with the participation the previous day of SAIRI's representative in London, Hamed al Bayati, in a similar meeting organized by Derek Fatchett, British foreign office minister in charge of the Middle East. (...) [ 698 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
ARMOR HOLDINGS BUY PARVUS
	The forthcoming acquisition of the business intelligence company Parvus by Armor Holdings, a company that specializes in security services and goods, bears some resemblance to the 1997 merger between Kroll Associates and O'Gara. (...) [ 401 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NSA-FBI COMPUTER SECURITY PUSH
	Authoritative sources have confirmed that the NSA and FBI are beginning to engage massively in monitoring domestic computer security "incidents." The drive by the two agencies is centered on the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), an all-source intelligence and warning center composed of three branches: (...) [ 415 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

RUSSIA
GRIGORY RAPOTA
	Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov has managed to tighten his grip on the Russian armaments industry by getting president Boris Yeltsin to appoint his old friend Grigory Rapota as the new boss of the giant Rosvooruzheniye company that holds a monopoly on arms sales. (...) [ 306 words ] [ €5 ]

JAPAN
EMA SEIJI
	A corruption scandal involving leading military officials and two affiliates of the NEC group has triggered a serious crisis within the Japanese Defense Agency and led to transfers within the Japanese security community. (...) [ 207 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
TONY EDWARDS
	Defence secretary George Robertson recently named Tony Edwards as head of the MoD's Defence Export Sales Organisation (DESO) and its administrative wing, the Defence Export Sales Secretariat (DESS) that oversees government-to-government agreements on major military sales and provides support, specifically economic intelligence, to UK military suppliers. (...) [ 327 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
THE SUBMARINE SPY SAGA
	An uncommon amount of detail about a previously unknown U.S. intelligence agency created in 1969 has been revealed in the recently-published book entitled Blind Man's Bluff; the Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Public Affairs, ISBN: (...) [ 481 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
OPIDIUM TO DO BATTLE WITH ECHELON
	In response to a written question from a senator regarding the "electronic espionage network known by the name of Echelon," French prime minister Lionel Jospin recently conceded that the existence of international cooperation between the U. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
THE VANGUARD OF LASER RESEARCH
	According to Intelligence Newsletter sources, research and development of laser technology that could one day enable China to destroy American satellites is being mainly spearheaded by the 4th Department (Electronic War and Counter-Measures) at the headquarters of the Peoples' Liberation Army. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GERMANY
REVELATIONS ON HVA OPERATIONS IN WEST GERMANY
	Helmut Muller-Enbergs, a research worker at an organization named Bundesbeauftragten dur die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienses der Ehemalingen DDR that holds the huge archives of ex-East German Stasi agency, has published a second volume of his remarkable work on the structures, operating methods and agents of the defunct service. (...) [ 232 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
1999 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
	Pursuing its policy of promoting awareness of business intelligence, the Academie de l'Intelligence Economique that was founded in 1997 by the SIECA company (Inforama International group: (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
MILITARY GPS MODERNIZATION
	The SMI company is organizing its second annual conference devoted to recent technological developments in global positioning by satellite in London on Jan. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED KINGDOM
	CITY OF LONDON'S TARNISHED REPUTATION
		Detectives from the City of London police and other agencies in south-east England are investigating six major law firms based in London's financial district on suspicion of laundering profits from gun-running, drug trafficking, vice and organized racketeering on behalf of Eastern European crime syndicates, Colombian cartels, the Italian and American Mafia and U. (...) [ 367 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/IRAQ
	KEY FIGURES IN ANTI-SADDAM FIGHT
		The four Americans that Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Council (INC), named in talks in Tehran late last month with ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al Hakim, leader of the Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (See Spotlight), have all had highly interesting careers. (...) [ 378 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
INFRARED TO SEE WHILE DRIVING AT NIGHT
	Reserved up to now for sophisticated military functions, thermal imagery that enables people to see at night looks set to become a product for everyday, civil use. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
THE FUTURE OF SIGINT
	Debates on the French defense budget for 1999 in the National Assembly and Senate shed a little more light on the SIGINT resources that France's foreign intelligence agency Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) and military intelligence, Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM), will enjoy in future. (...) [ 561 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
FRENCH FIRM FORGES AHEAD IN INFRARED DETECTION
	Some 12 years after it was founded, the French firm Sofradir, which is 40% owned by Thomson CSF, 40% by SAGEM and 20% by CEA-Industrie, has at last reached its cruising speed. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION TO SUPPLY THE GOODS IN INFO WARFARE
	The Pentagon has handed the U.S. firm Computer Sciences Corporation two contracts that could be worth up to a total of $105 million in the coming five years to provide services to the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center (JC2WC) and the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC) at Kelly air force base in Texas. (...) [ 138 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
MAKING PASSPORTS TAMPER-PROOF
	The U.S. State Department has begun issuing passports that use a new printing system supplied by Thermo Digital Technologies (TDT) that aims to provide virtually tamper-proof documents. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	LEBANON
	THE CONNECTION THAT TOPPLED HARIRI
		Rafic Hariri's sudden departure from his job of prime minister only days after general Emile Lahoud took over as president of Lebanon was due partly to the Nohad al Mashnouk affair. (...) [ 485 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	SINGLE LEGAL SERVICE IN PARIS
		A two-day conference organized for the first time in Paris on Nov. 26-27 by the Paris public prosecutor's financial service in conjunction with the HEC group and the Forum de Paris company underscored the determination of the French courts to fight financial crime and money laundering. (...) [ 363 words ] [ €5 ]

	RUSSIA
	STARTLING REVELATIONS ON THE INTERNET
		A first major "disinformation" operation by Russia on the Internet has just been uncovered. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	INFOWAR SQUABBLES
		According to well-placed government sources, the Clinton administration is mired in inter-departmental feuding over its encryption and information warfare approaches. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €1,5 ]