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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/IRAQ

TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

The huge electronic spying operation carried out since 1996 in Iraq by the United States, Israel, Britain and several other countries via UNSCOM raises a lot of questions. One concerns its effectiveness. The results appear to have fallen short of what code-breakers at the NSA and DIA had hoped for. (...) [ 660 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
MOVE TO BOOST INFLUENCE
	President Bill Clinton plans to reorganize U.S. "foreign affairs agencies" in a move clearly aimed at bolstering American influence in the world. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NSA'S HAND IN SHAPING RESEARCH
	The National Security Agency has always played a key role in the United States by spurring research – both in-house and in private companies – on sensitive questions involving computer science and information security. (...) [ 525 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
JOHN CAMPBELL
	Maj.-Gen. John Campbell took over command of the brand new Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND) on Dec.30. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
ROBERT LARNED
	A 30-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Robert "Rick" Larned, has been named senior vice president of the GRC International Company and director of the group's decision technologies division (DTD). (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
EDWARD MANSUR
	By naming a member of the Greek Orthodox community, gen. Edward Mansur, as head of the Surete de l'Etat and a Shi'ite, gen. (...) [ 363 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
SPECIAL SECURITY FOR YEAR OF RABBIT
	The coming Year of the Rabbit looks like being turbulent and to cope with it president Jiang Zeming has named himself chief of a new unit that will dovetail the security services under the name Temporary Leading Group on Rectifying National Affairs. (...) [ 373 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAN
SHOWDOWN AT THE TOP
	Iran's decision to officially admit that a band of killers was operating within the Iranian intelligence service came only after a fierce clash between the country's leaders. (...) [ 462 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
DGSE'S VIDEO CAMERAS IN SUBWAY?
	On Jan. 13 the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine revealed that the Paris subway authority, RATP, installed video cameras inside subway trains in 1997, and particularly on the number 3B line running from the Gambetta to Porte des Lilas stations. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
THE SECRET COST OF RENOVATIONS
	Prime minister Tony Blair has intervened to prevent publication of a National Audit Office (NAO) report into the building and refurbishment of the London headquarters of MI5 and MI6 following claims that the intelligence and security agencies had overspent their budgets by £90 million. (...) [ 140 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED KINGDOM
3RD ANNUAL INFOWAR CONFERENCE IN LONDON
	The SMI company is organizing its 3rd annual conference devoted to information warfare in London on March 10-11. (...) [ 197 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ASIA
PACINFO '99
	A conference staged by Open Source Solutions (OSS) to lay the groundwork for a virtual intelligence community in the Pacific region and which was initially scheduled for Dec. (...) [ 161 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	ASIA/UNITED STATES
	CHINA, TAIWAN AND U.S. JOIN RANKS
		For the first time, China's Public Security ministry, Gonganbu, has taken part in an anti-organized crime operation with its counterparts in Taiwan and the U. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	REPORT ON THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS
		An estimated 20 international crime organizations are smuggling between 2,000 and 4,000 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers into the United Kingdom every month, according to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) which recently formed an organized immigration crime section. (...) [ 311 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

SWITZERLAND
THE WORLD'S SMALLEST SPY RADIO RECEIVER
	Founded in 1992 by the telecommuncations engineer Anton Bartschi, the small Swiss company Phonak Communications, an affiliate of the Phonak Holdings group that specializes in acoustic devices, is enjoying a runaway success with intelligence agencies and security companies. (...) [ 355 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW, REAL-TIME SARIN NERVE GAS SENSOR
	According to the Jan. 15 issue of the magazine Analytical Chemistry published by the American Chemical Society, research workers at John Hopkins university have successfully tested a sensor of the Sarin and Soman nerve gas that is a million times more sensitive than existing sensors. (...) [ 433 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SIGINT EXPORTS A BOON TO TCI
	The U.S. company TCI International, based in Sunnyvale, California, said on Jan. (...) [ 177 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GERMANY/FRANCE
COOPERATION IN UAVS
	The first findings of a study group set up by the French and German general staffs to define the technical and operational capabilities of medium and high altitude UAVs will be tabled in March. (...) [ 168 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
RUGGEDIZED COMPUTERS FOR C4I
	An affiliate of NAI Technologies, Codar Technology, has just begun marketing the latest model of its ruggedized portable workstation, Codar Explorer MP (multi-platform) and said it had received initial orders for over 175 units worth more than $4 million. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EUROPE
	BIG BROTHER LIKES MOBILE PHONES
		In recent months a Swiss national, Christian Masson, has been campaigning tirelessly on the Internet against telephone tapping. He began by publishing the addresses of most of Switzerland's eavesdropping centers, some of them correct, some of them wrong. (...) [ 541 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM/IRAQ
	LONDON MEETING A POLITICAL FLOP
		One of 16 representatives of the Iraqi opposition who met in London on Nov. 23-24 with Derek Fatchett, British foreign office minister in charge of the Middle East, and U. (...) [ 621 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	NEW LEGISLATION AGAINST TERRORISM
		Home Secretary Jack Straw is drafting new security legislation to cover both domestic and international terrorism. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €1,5 ]