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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

FOUR SCENARIOS FOR INFORMATION WARFARE

President Bill Clinton's call on Jan. 22 for a $1.46 billion increase in the U.S. military budget next year to protect the country from chemical, biological and computer attack marks the American administration's true debut in "strategic information warfare" (SIW). (...) [ 641 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
LIBERALIZATION KEY TO SECURITY
	French prime minister Lionel Jospin's unexpected decision to lift all clamps on the use of encryption that was announced on Jan. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

JORDAN
POLITICAL MISTAKES AND PALACE INTRIGUE
	King Hussein's decision to withdraw the title of crown prince from his brother, Hassan Ibn Talal, was symbolically conveyed to him on Jan. (...) [ 516 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
BUD SHUSTER
	Despite a lot of lobbying, Republican Bud Shuster failed to win re-election as a member of the House of Representative's Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on which he had sat for 10 years. (...) [ 198 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
QIU GUANGHUI
	It has just been learned in Beijing that Qiu Guanghui, one of the directors of China's counter-espionage at the state security ministry (Guoanbu) committed suicide last Sept. (...) [ 308 words ] [ €5 ]

EGYPT/UNITED KINGDOM
ABU HAMZA
	During a tour to inspect troops in Aden, Yemeni vice-president Abd al Rab Mansur al Hadi launched another fierce verbal attack on Jan. (...) [ 427 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MORE SEX PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISH
	The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that the Defence Vetting Agency, which was formed in 1997 from units run separately by the Army, Royal Navy and RAF, will no longer consider the sexual preferences of senior military staff or of civilians employed by the MoD or seconded to the Foreign Office for overseas duty, as an obstacle to promotion or access to classified information. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE
	Significant new details on how the National Security Agency is organized in the post-Cold War era have emerged from new material declassified by the agency largely in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act. (...) [ 483 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
PROSPECTS FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE POLICY
	The Western European Union's Institute for Security Studies has devoted the latest issue of its magazine, Chaillot Papers, to the prospects for a "European intelligence policy. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

CANADA
SCIP'S 14TH CONFERENCE
	The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals in the U.S. is organizing its 14th annual conference in Canada for the first time between April 28 and May 1 in Montreal. (...) [ 118 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
ECONOMIC WARFARE REAL CASES AND INFO DESTABILIZATION
	Noting that "most decision-makers find themselves disarmed in the face of civil information warfare," the Ecole de Guerre Economique (Economic War School: (...) [ 134 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES/FRANCE
	RIVALRY REARS ITS HEAD IN INFOWAR
		France may find itself compelled to put images from its Helios-1 spy satellite on the commercial market-place to counter a U. (...) [ 465 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	IRIDIUM ALSO ALARMS CANADIANS
		A sub-committee of Canada's Senate studying the question of cyber terrorism published a report earlier this month that voiced deep concern over the fact that Canadian police have no way of getting a mandate to intercept mobile telephone calls when the operator is outside of Canada. (...) [ 393 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPE
KEEPING WATCH ON SCHENGEN BORDERS
	Austria's interior minister has just ordered 30 mobile surveillance vehicles (MSV) from the U.K. company British Aerospace Systems and Equipment (BASE). (...) [ 383 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
A SYSTEM TO MONITOR JAPANESE SITES
	Several intelligence agencies in both Europe and Asia have recently shown a keen interest in an invention Sylvain Meyer, an engineer who works at the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (Telecoms Research Center) based at Lannion in France and who specializes in monitoring Far Eastern technology. (...) [ 407 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
PHOENIX FINALLY IN SERVICE
	After trials in Canada, two Royal Artillery regiments in the U. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
MOVE TO EUROPEAN-SCALE APPRAISALS
	Jean-Marie Paimboeuf, head of the French armaments board's appraisals and trials center (Centre d'Expertise et d'Essais: (...) [ 161 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
HACKER TESTS
	The consultancy and audits firm Ernest & Young is working to build up the number of its computer laboratories in North America that carry out ethical attack and penetration operations to test the strengths and weaknesses of their clients' networks. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BURMA
	INTERPOL TAKES LIKING TO RANGOON
		A lot of questions are being asked about how and why Interpol's top brass decided to stage the agency's 4th international conference on heroin in Rangoon between Feb. (...) [ 288 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	WHY WASHINGTON PLAYS SHI'ITE CARD
		The second-ranking diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Frank Ricciardone, who was named Washington's special representative for the "Iraqi transition" on Jan. (...) [ 555 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	PENTAGON WANTS TO IMPOSE MICROSOFT
		Panic has been rife among computer officials in the Department of Defense over a reported plan by the Pentagon to drop the UNIX operating system on all DoD client computers and work in future uniquely on Microsoft's Windows NT. (...) [ 187 words ] [ €1,5 ]