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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

BIG FOUR OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WORLD

Private investigation and security companies are taking the same path as the Western world's big auditing concerns. They are breaking beyond their traditional frontiers to offer a wider range of services and also buying one another up and recruiting staff in waves. (...) [ 691 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
RED BOX EXPERIMENT A FLOP
	The "electronic red box" which the British government introduced last year has been scrapped because ministers couldn't operate the prototype. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
EAVESDROPPING BETWEEN "WORST OF FRIENDS"
	The title of his book is "The Worst Friends in the World" (Les Pires Amis du Monde) and Jean Guisnel, one of France's leading journalists in the field of defense and intelligence, gives ample proof that when it comes to the United States and France he isn't exaggerating. (...) [ 381 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
JACK DEVINE
	After serving for 31 years, Jack Devine has left the CIA to join a private company that specializes in intelligence. (...) [ 242 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
DAVID IVRI
	After 10 years as the influential director-general of Israel's defense ministry, David Ivri has been named boss of the country's new National Security Council. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
MOHAMAD TAKI AL MUDARISI
	The religious leader of the Shi'ite organization Al Amal Al Islami, ayatollah Mohamad Taki al-Mudarisi has come out fiercely against Washington's military and financial assistance to seven Iraqi opposition groups, and particularly to the main Iraqi Shi'ite movement, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) headed by ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al Hakim. (...) [ 331 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
DARKSTAR AXED TO GLOBAL HAWK'S ADVANTAGE
	The surprise cancellation of the Darkstar UAV program in recent days may not mean the end of the Pentagon's effort to develop a high-altitude drone. (...) [ 455 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
GONGANBU TAKES ON ORGANIZED CRIME
	Since Jan. 1 China's public security ministry (Gonganbu) headed by Jia Chunwang has been hitting out in all directions against economic crime (counterfeiting, corruption, smuggling). (...) [ 338 words ] [ €5 ]

BELGIUM
NEW CHAIRMAN FOR R COMMITTEE
	A 51-year-old Belgian magistrate, Jean-Claude Delepiere, was sworn in on Feb. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SOUTH KOREA
TOO MANY DEFECTORS FROM NORTH
	South Korea's new secret service, the National Intelligence Service (formerly ANSP) headed by Lee Jong Chan, has been overwhelmed by defectors from North Korea. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ISRAEL
HOW THE GRU INFILTRATED MOSSAD
	Zeev Avni was the most successful of GRU agents to infiltrate the supposedly impenetrable Mossad during the Soviet era. (...) [ 227 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
HEAD HUNTING FOR SPIES
	The JTM & Associates company is organizing for the third year running an unusual forum on March 25 on careers for intelligence professionals. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
SECOND EUROINTEL GATHERING ON OPEN SOURCES
	The second EuroIntel conference organized by the U.S. company Open Sources Solutions (OSS) will be held in The Hague between March 8-11. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES
	DIA BOSS SEES DIRE FUTURE FOR NEW THREATS
		Over the coming 20 years the U.S. will remain the world's primary military and economic power but Patrick Hughes, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) believes the country will be confronted by the simultaneous advent of many smaller crises "that will result in a net effect that could diffuse our focus, dissipate our power and resources, cause us to be reactive and ultimately undermine our ability to shape the future. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	POLICE DRAWS UP FIRST GANG LIST
		For the first time Switzerland's central criminal police office has drawn up a list of criminal gangs operating in the country. (...) [ 332 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
1 GRAM CAMERA FOR MICRO UAV
	A team from the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) that was made up essentially of engineers from Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks tested a "mini air vehicle" on Jan. (...) [ 294 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE
	The recent publication of the book "Top Secret Intranet" (Prentice Hall, NJ., ISBN 0-13-080898-9) by a former top-level NSA official, Frederick Thomas Martin, constitutes what could well be the first concrete sign that the American intelligence community has begun its cultural revolution. (...) [ 513 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE ENCLOSURE
	The U.S. company BEMA based at Dumfries, Virginia has developed an ultra-light and portable system to shield computers and other data-handling equipment against eavesdropping. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL ALSO LIFTS CLAMPS ON CRYPTOGRAPHY
	The South Korean information and communications ministry has just announced that systems which ensure communication security (such as encryption software and anti-eavesdropping equipment) can be sold on the open market starting from July. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FAST SUBMERSIBLE CRAFT FOR SPECIAL FORCES
	According to the U.S. magazine "Combat Craft," engineers at the US Navy's Coastal Systems Station in Panama City, Florida have developed a new concept for a fast submersible boat that can be used in special operations. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES/IRAQ
	RICCIARDONE'S OPTIONS AGAINST SADDAM
		Frank Ricciardone, the special U.S. representative for the "Iraqi transition," met with officials from seven Iraqi opposition movements backed by Washington at the U. (...) [ 597 words ] [ €5 ]

	MIDDLE EAST
	ABU NIDAL HUNTS EGYPTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS
		According to a well informed Palestinian source in southern Lebanon, Abu Nidal, head of Fatah-Revolutionary Council, left Cairo at the end of January for Libya. (...) [ 437 words ] [ €5 ]

	NORTHERN IRELAND
	SECURITY REPORT AWAITED
		Protestant leaders have written directly to British prime minister Tony Blair to complain they haven't been "fully consulted" about a security report that is on the point of being published on the "normalization of security arrangements and practices" in Northern Ireland. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BURMA
	INTERPOL CONFERENCE IN RANGOON BOYCOTTED
		Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Ireland and then Belgian, the United States and Britain have all announced their refusal to attend Interpol's fourth world conference on heroin scheduled for Rangoon between Feb. (...) [ 198 words ] [ €1,5 ]