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SPOTLIGHT

EUROPE

SPY SATELLITES FIRST LINE IN EUROPE'S DEFENSES

A report discussed behind closed doors during a meeting of the Western European Union's Technological and Aerospace Committee on Nov. 10 fixed the timetable for transforming the Torrejon satellite center in Spain into a European Union defense unit. The working paper, entitled "The WEU Satellite Center – the Way Ahead," is one of the first concrete results of a European summit meeting in Cologne on June 3-4 at which EU leaders voiced their determination to strengthen Europe's defenses. (...) [ 713 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

YUGOSLAVIA
NEW SERB SECRET SERVICE
	According to Intelligence Newsletter's military sources in Belgrade, Serb president Slobodan Milosevic will seize the occasion of a forthcoming government re-shuffle to undertake a radical overhaul of Serbia's intelligence and security services. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON
	Legislator Bob Barr has benefited from a favorable climate in the U.S. Congress to mark an important point in his long-standing crusade against the Echelon system overseen by the NSA: (...) [ 218 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
ROBERT BRYANT
	Deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 1997, Robert Bryant will be leaving the agency at the end of this month after 31 years to take up a job in the business sector. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
RALPH EBERHART
	Nominated by President Bill Clinton early this month to the post of commander in chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, gen. (...) [ 265 words ] [ €5 ]

YEMEN
AHMED ALI ABDALLAH SALEH
	On Nov. 6 Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Saleh who is also commander in chief of his country's armed forces, named his 32-year-old son as head of a new Special Units force in charge of stamping out terrorism. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
CLARIFICATION
	Following our article in the last issue devoted to Anthony Harrington, vice-chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, who was recently nominated for the post of ambassador to Brazil, PFIAB executive director Randy Deitering asked us to point out that Mr. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SPACE COMMAND TACKLES NEW MISSIONS
	Over the past five weeks the U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) headquartered at the Peterson air force base in Colorado has taken on a range of fresh missions in such fields as Infowar and computer security; it has also been given new resources to help meet its broader brief. (...) [ 479 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
COMPETITIVE EXAM FOR DGSE OPERATIVES
	France's foreign intelligence agency DGSE has been given funds under the country's military budget for 2000 to hire exactly 87 new staff. (...) [ 485 words ] [ €5 ]

CZECH REPUBLIC
FINAL TOUCHES TO REHAUL
	The overhaul of Czech intelligence agencies that began six months ago will enter its final phase next April when the minister in charge of overseeing the services, Jaroslav Basta, tables a draft bill on monitoring intelligence activity before parliament. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
REWARD FOR COVERT OPERATIONS
	U.S. defense secretary William Cohen awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Award to nine government employees on Nov. (...) [ 91 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
NEW ELECTROMAGNETIC RESOURCES
	The French army is to beef up its electromagnetic capability on Dec. (...) [ 150 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FACE-LIFT FOR FBI HEADQUARTERS
	The Federal Bureau of Investigation intends to revamp its Washington headquarters to respond to changing threats from espionage and terrorism, to improve its analytical capacity and to make better use of existing resources, FBI boss Louis Freeh announced on Nov. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
RSA'S ANNUAL BRIEFING
	The traditional annual meeting organized by the RSA company, RSA Conference 2000, will be held in San Jose, California, between Jan. (...) [ 93 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FRENCH-AMERICAN MILITARY INDUSTRY TIES
	A first business meeting between French and U.S. defense industry suppliers scheduled to be held in Toulouse between Dec. (...) [ 187 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	BULGARIA
	CHERNOY'S EMPIRE
		Police forces in the U.S., Switzerland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are particularly interested at the moment in Misha Chernoy, a brother of Russian aluminum tycoon Lev Chernoy who is reported to control Britain's Trans world group (IN 355). (...) [ 279 words ] [ €5 ]

	EGYPT
	SECRET GATHERING AGAINST TERRORISM
		Senior officials from many countries met in secret in Cairo at the CIA's invitation on Oct. 30-31 to moot the latest developments in global terrorism. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
NATO'S NEW COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
	U.S. and European military leaders met in Norfolk, Virginia between Oct. 25-29 under the auspices of NATO and at the initiative of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) to discuss the Alliance's future communications systems. (...) [ 535 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
ADJUSTABLE-FIELD NIGHT VISION SYSTEM
	During the COPEX'99 military show organized recently in London the British distribution firm House of Optics presented a night vision system unknown in the West up to now. (...) [ 257 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
NEW DGA PROGRAM
	The French armaments board, Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA), is presently working on new software to improve the capacity of the French armed forces to analyze intelligence of electromagnetic origin and radar data. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
TOP-LINE AMERICAN COMPANIES FOR R&D
	For offering advice on mathematics and on defense systems, the U. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
BREAKTHROUGH FOR AIRPORTS
	Britain's Civil Aviation Authority has expressed interest in a new laser-based explosives detector which was developed in the U. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	A BUYER FOR FRENCH AIRCRAFT CARRIER
		Officially, the word is that France's lone aircraft carrier Foch will quit the fleet early next year when its successor, the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle, comes on line. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	NEW TWISTS TO TAIWAN FRIGATE SCANDAL
		The scandal involving payments of commissions by Thomson-CSF for the sale of anti-aircraft frigates to Taiwan has taken a fresh turn in Switzerland. (...) [ 434 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	GLOBAL COOPERATION IN SIGHT AGAINST CYBERCRIME
		According to Intelligence Newsletter sources at the British Foreign Office a meeting between officials in the G8 countries who lead the fight against cybercrime will be held in Paris in the spring. (...) [ 255 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	MOGILEVICH'S FRIENDS
		According to documents obtained by Intelligence Newsletter, Semion Mogilevich who is considered by many Western law enforcement agencies as a leading figure in Russian organized crime, won entry into France with the help of a Belgian diplomat and a French police superintendent. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	IN-DEPTH REVIEW IN PARIS
		A French specialist on strategic issues, Francois Heisbourg (IN 273), has been asked by prime minister Lionel Jospin to head an inter-ministerial panel on defense, international relations and strategy. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	ASIAN DRUG RINGS IN UK
		A confidential Drug Enforcement Agency memo prepared a year ago has identified Asian drug rings as the main supplier of narcotics for the British market, and particularly for heroin. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €1,5 ]