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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE ON MONEY LAUNDERING

In months to come the idea of combining the struggle against money-laundering with the fight against tax evasion will increasingly split organizations that combat dirty money into two opposing camps. The controversy already stirred heated debate on Oct. 26-27 during the annual gathering of the Fopac Group, an Interpol unit that tracks suspicious money flows. (...) [ 673 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

CHINA
THE QUIET MEN BEHIND JIANG ZEMIN
	Several prominent Chinese intelligence aides figured discreetly in the delegation that accompanied president Jiang Zemin on his recent tour of the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and Morocco. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
CIVILIANS BUCKING CHANGE AT NSA
	National Security Agency insiders say the organization's new director, Lt.-Gen. Michael Hayden, who took up his job in March, has run into opposition in his attempts to revamp the agency. (...) [ 363 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

IRAQ
RAFI ABDULATIF TALFAH
	Iraqi president Saddam Hussein named Rafi Abdulatif Talfah as head of Iraq's General Security Service on Oct. 15. He replaces gen. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
RONALD ZIMET
	The former chairman of a U.K.-based business directories group Freepages and a Virgin Islands investment company named Trellis International, Ronald Zimet, is expected to give evidence at the Old Bailey in London in January against fugitive businessman Andrew Regan and two former colleagues, Allan Green and David Chambers. (...) [ 205 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
ANTHONY HARRINGTON
	President Bill Clinton has just nominated Anthony Harrington, a lawyer with long-standing connections to intelligence, as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
SGDN IN GROWING SECURITY ROLE
	According to senior defense ministry aides, France's Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale (SGDN) plays a pivotal role in the security of information systems and should do so even more in the months ahead. (...) [ 419 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
NEW ESPIONAGE PUSH IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
	Russian intelligence is on the move in southern Europe and around the Black Sea in what seems a drive to promote Russia's economic interests although nobody knows specifically what interests are involved. (...) [ 254 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
YOUR MASTER'S VOICE
	A retail CD company based in Britain, Irdial-disc, has begun marketing compact disks that contain secret messages sent over the airwaves by the world's intelligence agencies in recent decades. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
THE LATEST IN PSYCHOLOGICAL OPS
	France's Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique has just published a paper entitled "Modern Aspects of Psychological Action" compiled by Francois Géré, founder of the Observatoire des Operations Psychologiques. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
NEW INTERPOL INTRANET
	The international police organization Interpol recently inaugurated a world-wide network that provides staff with a data bank on crime across the globe and on all persons wanted by the police. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
BACKDOORS USED IN OPERATION
	According to American experts, a law enforcement drive spearheaded by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) against a Colombian drug cartel provided an occasion to use the most sophisticated equipment to crack encrypted computer and telephone messages. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
WORK ON INFORMATION SECURITY "LARGELY FRUITLESS
	" Several leading information industry specialists and academics have concluded that all the work done by NSA, Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and a group of four European countries to set new information security standards had been "largely fruitless. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
PREVENTIVE ACTION FOR COMPUTER SECURITY
	The 15th Computer Security Applications Conference is to be held between Dec. (...) [ 155 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
MONITORING METHODS IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
	A series of conferences devoted to competitive intelligence monitoring will be held in Paris between Nov. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FOCUS ON INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
	A conference on the tactical uses of competitive intelligence in the insurance and financial services industry will be held in New York on Dec. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES/MIDDLE EAST
	NEGOTIATING BIN LADEN'S FUTURE
		Secret negotiations over the arrest of Ussama Bin Laden have been conducted in recent weeks between a representative of the Talibans, Abdul Hakim Mudjahid, and the U. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	NATO'S CLOSED-DOOR TALKS ON PROLIFERATION
		Differences between the NATO allies on proliferation issues burst into the open on Oct. 7-8 during a discreet meeting in Palma de Majorca of the Defense Group on Proliferation (DGP), an ad hoc panel set up by the Alliance to examine ways to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction. (...) [ 265 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
NRO PEERS INTO THE FUTURE
	The U.S. space-based intelligence agency National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has lifted a further veil on the invitation to tender it issued on Oct. (...) [ 410 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI PICKS TOP FINGERPRINT SCANNER
	An exhibition organized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) on Oct. 30 in Charlotte, North Carolina, provided an occasion to put one of the world's best fingerprint scanning systems through its paces. (...) [ 383 words ] [ €5 ]

JAPAN
REVOLUTIONARY HACKER TRAP
	The Japanese company Hucom has begun developing software that can detect hackers trying to use stolen passwords to gain entry into networks. (...) [ 195 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
DNA RECORDED ON CHIP
	The French armaments board, Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA), will begin consultations at year's end on launching a study to create "a DNA chip for biological and chemical identification purposes. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
NEW PARTNERSHIPS FOR DERA
	Britain's Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) will stage its annual meeting at Ascot on Nov. (...) [ 134 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES/IRAQ
	FATE OF IRAQI OPPONENTS SEALED IN U.S.
		A meeting of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) held in the Sheraton hotel in New York between Oct. 29-31 was marked by the conspicuous absence of Iraq's leading Shi'ite opposition movements. (...) [ 413 words ] [ €5 ]

	RUSSIA/TURKEY
	RUSSIANS & TURKS IN PIPELINE SHOWDOWN
		A confidential memo from the Russian embassy in Ankara provides a clear measure of how much pressure officials in charge of Russian energy policy will try to put on Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit during his visit to Moscow between Nov. (...) [ 549 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	HOW THE HAWALA SYSTEM WORKS FOR MONEY LAUNDERING
		Financial intelligence agencies attending the forthcoming FATF meeting in Washington on Nov. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	CANADA
	FIRST HIGH LEVEL COURSES ON CYBERCRIME
		Canada's Council for Advancement and Support of Education has handed out a major award to a young law professor who established the first high-level course specializing in computer crime. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	STEP-UP IN GLOBAL COOPERATION
		A pact that lays down standard criteria for computer security has been winning new signatories. (...) [ 53 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	HITTING BACK AT ENVIRONMENT LOBBY
		A small French publishing house, Alcuin, is publishing a limited edition of a report that claims to shed light on the real motives behind environmentalist movements. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,5 ]