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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

According to analysts close to Western intelligence agencies the probability that terrorist gangs will resort to using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons to commit attacks is growing ever stronger. That fear has prompted the CIA to work specially since last May to promote cooperation between the countries most concerned by the risk. (...) [ 646 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
MI6 RECRUITS DRUG-BUSTERS
	Over the past few weeks MI6 has been stepping up efforts to recruit potential spies from Britain's ethnic communities. The agency is anxious to increase Asian staff to cover the Golden Crescent (Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan), the main source of heroin entering the United Kingdom, as part of Britain's overall drive against drugs. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
EVALUATING DRM'S PERFORMANCE
	A recent confidential report drafted by the French defense ministry has picked out some flaws in intelligence gathering by the French military intelligence agency Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) on behalf of France's Centre de Commandement Operationnel pour la Meditererranee (CECMED). (...) [ 311 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED KINGDOM
JOHN ABBOT
	The director general of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), John Abbott, is under internal investigation by a senior member of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) into allegations he mishandled a complaint made by a 49-year-old Dubliner, Anthony McGoff, who claims Interpol falsely branded him a criminal. (...) [ 248 words ] [ €5 ]

HUNGARY
LAZLO GAL
	Chief of Hungary's BM FEH, the internal police service that investigates complaints against the police, gen. Lazlo Gal has just resigned under a cloud. (...) [ 223 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
ABDUL AYNAIN
	Aged 48 and presently the PLO's official representative in Lebanon, Abul Aynain has taken refuge in the Palestinian camp at Rachidiye following a death sentence handed down on him by a Beirut court on Oct. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS
	According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Congress, NSA officials won't be heard before the House of Representative's Government Reform Committee on the legality of the agency's eavesdropping operations before late February or early March at the earliest. (...) [ 399 words ] [ €5 ]

ROMANIA
CROSS-BORDER AGENCY COOPERATION
	Intelligence agencies in the Balkans and southern Europe now have a center to dovetail and step up their fight against organized crime. (...) [ 298 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
MERCENARIES CLAMOR FOR DAMAGES
	The Foreign Office has refused to pay the London-based private military company Sandline International the £100,000 it has demanded to meet legal expenses it says it incurred during a customs investigation into allegations Sandline breached a UN embargo on arms to Sierra Leone following the military coup in May, 1997 (IN 345/347). (...) [ 154 words ] [ €1,5 ]

GERMANY
BKA'S ON-LINE INTELLIGENCE OPERATION
	The head of Germany's Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Ulrich Kersten, met with chiefs from Interpol and Europol at BKA headquarters in Wiesbaden in late November to discuss investigations his service is carrying out on the Internet. (...) [ 85 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CHINA
PEOPLE'S ARMY LIMBERS UP FOR INFOWAR
	The Chinese military publication Jiefangjun Bao, published in Beijing, has underscored the importance of modern armies to possess units that specialize in Infowar and in breaking into computer networks. (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
RIFT OVER DST'S HISTORY
	The Association of Former DST Officials (AADST) has come out violently against a book by Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop entitled DST Police Secrete (Flammarion, ISSBN 2080676202, published in October (IN 367). (...) [ 170 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
CIA VERSUS LIBERATION
	Up to now the CIA has sought in vain to catch the killers of Richard Welch, its station chief in Greece who was gunned down in Athens in December, 1975 by killers claiming to belong to a mysterious Nov. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
EVALUATING WEAK POINTS IN MONEY LAUNDERING
	The HEC business school and France's Study Center for Money Laundering and Corruption (CEBC: (...) [ 153 words ] [ €1,5 ]

AUSTRALIA
PUBLIC KEY EXPERTS TO MEET
	The Public Key Cryptography 2000 meeting that will be attended by the world's leading experts in the field is due to be held in Melbourne between Jan. (...) [ 154 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	MIDDLE EAST
	YOUNG GENERATION
		Several diplomats on post in the Middle East believe that the advent of a new generation of leaders will strongly mark the coming years in the Middle East, even though it will give rise to succession struggles. (...) [ 277 words ] [ €5 ]

	RUSSIA
	MOSCOU SEEKS BYKOV'S EXTRADITION
		The Russian government is pulling out all the stops to see that Anatoly Bykov, a Russian businessman arrested at Interpol's behest while trying to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border on Oct. (...) [ 321 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

CANADA
BIOMETRIC ID FOR BANK SERVICES
	The Canadian bank ING Direct Canada is shortly going to offer its customers new banking services on the Internet that use a fingerprint biometric system to ensure security. (...) [ 346 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
GSM A NEW INTELLIGENCE SOURCE
	The Milipol 99 security show in Paris between Nov. 23-26 shed fresh light on the boom in systems employing the GSM cellular telephone network. (...) [ 440 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS MINISTERS AGREE TO ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES
	European telecommunications ministers meeting on Nov. 30 adopted a European Commission directive guaranteeing Europe-wide recognition of electronic signatures. (...) [ 95 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
EAVESDROPPING GEAR FOR NEW FRENCH CARRIER
	The new French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle that will join the fleet in the first half of next year is to be equipped with new-generation eavesdropping gear. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
DERA INVESTS IN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
	Britain's Defence Evaluation & Research Agency has established a joint venture with the NXT company that specializes in speech technology. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	GERMANY
	DEFENSE INDUSTRY'S DANGEROUS FRIENDS
		A recent report by Germany economy ministry based on a confidential memo from the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) has urged German defense industry companies to observe extreme caution in their dealings with the Gulf countries. (...) [ 249 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	A MAJOR NETWORK FOR MONEY LAUNDERING?
		French legislators who are carrying out a fact-finding mission on "obstacles to the control and crackdown on financial crime and money-laundering in Europe" have uncovered curious practices involving a Swiss bank. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	A HACKER'S GUIDE-BOOK
		A book due to appear any day now in France paints a portrait of several well-known hackers who have achieved numerous coups in the past three years, along with a description of how they operate. (...) [ 313 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	RULES FOR NEGOTIATORS
		France's Centre International de Sciences Criminelles et Penales (CISCP) will hold a seminar on hostage-taking and bargaining with kidnappers in Paris on March 17-18. (...) [ 121 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EUROPE
	EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TAKES A FRESH LOOK ON MONEY LAUNDERING
		The European parliament's committee on citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs chaired by Bernd Posselt examined a European Commission draft directorate on the fight against money-laundering (IN 362) on Nov. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	BUDGET FOR CTBTO
		The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization's Preparatory Commission held its 10th annual session at its headquarters in Vienna on Nov. (...) [ 124 words ] [ €1,5 ]