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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

HOW TO USE NGO'S FOR LOBBYING AND ESPIONAGE

Over the past year several events have underlined the part -played by NGOs – unwittingly or otherwise -- in operations by some governments to gain influence and gather intelligence. This has been notably the case in Kosovo and East Timor but also in recent negotiations on world trade. (...) [ 640 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
DGSE BOSS ON WAY OUT
	Intelligence Newsletter sources at the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE confirm that the current chief, Jacques Dewatre, will leave his job by the end of this month. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
FRENCH NAVY'S HIGHER INTELLIGENCE PROFILE
	According to members of the French parliament's defense and armed forces committee, France's navy is playing an ever greater part in gleaning intelligence. (...) [ 420 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
ROBERT DEITZ
	As general counsel for the National Security Agency finds himself in the front line of NSA's activity. It was he who invoked attorney-client privilege to refuse to give the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence documents concerning NSA's communications surveillance directed against U. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €5 ]

SWITZERLAND
MICHAEL LAUBER
	Aged 35, Michael Lauber has just resigned his job as head of the Swiss Federal Police Office's criminal analysis department. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €5 ]

RUSSIA
SEMION MOGILEVICH
	Born on June 3, 1946 into a Jewish family in the Ukraine, Semion Mogilevich has the dubious distinction of being one of the Russian oligarchs most closely under the police eye, and specially after his involvement in the Bank of New York scandal. (...) [ 240 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
AKL IBRAHIM HACHEM
	Aged 50, commander Akl Hachem will head the 1,000-man militia that is to take over from the Southern Lebanese Army (SLA) after the expected withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon is completed in March. (...) [ 203 words ] [ €5 ]

ISRAEL
BKA NEGOTIATING WITH THE IRANIANS
	Germany's Bundeskriminalamt stepped gingerly into the diplomatic arena in late December when it began acting as an intermediary in negotiations between the Israeli government and Hezbollah on the highly sensitive question of prisoner exchanges. (...) [ 431 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
FIRST-EVER SPACE BATTALION
	The U.S. Space Command has set up a first battalion devoted entirely to space following a shake-up in September that considerably beefed up the Command's powers in the fields of Infowar and computer security (IN 370). (...) [ 326 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
NEW EUROPOL NETWORK
	The director-general of Europol, Jurgen Storbeck, signed a 10 million Euro contract on Dec. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI STEPS UP ANTI-TERROR FIGHT
	Dale Watson, head of the FBI's new Counterterrorism Division, found himself projected into the front line in recent weeks as the U. (...) [ 153 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
STEELE'S VIEW ON INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FUTURE
	Robert Steele, founder of the Open Sources Solution company and a former Marine Corps intelligence officer, has just published a biting report named "Smart People, Stupid Bureaucracies" which was clearly written for candidate's in this November's presidential election. (...) [ 238 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FRENCH INTELLIGENCE EFFORT IN KOSOVO
	France deployed virtually all of its intelligence resources during the Kosovo emergency, according to a report published by the parliament's all-party defense committee. (...) [ 168 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
FINANCIAL SECRETS
	The fourth international conference on protecting financial data and digital commerce entitled Financial Cryptography '00 will be held between Feb. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
SEARCH & RESCUE ENCOUNTER
	The British firm Shephard is organizing a third annual Search & Rescue Conference and Exhibition at Brighton on March 23. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	RUSSIA
	YELTSIN IMMUNITY RELATIVELY NARROW
		The legal protection that Boris Yeltsin and his family were granted shortly before Vladimir Putin took over as acting president of Russia could prove more limited than it seemed at first glance. (...) [ 217 words ] [ €5 ]

	SYRIA
	SYRIAN ISLAMISTS COME OUT FIGHTING
		A series of unprecedented clashes took place between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3 between Syrian security forces and fundamentalist militants belonging to the Islamic Liberation Party. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPE
RECOVERING YOUR LOST COMPUTER DATA
	The recovery of lost computer data is fast becoming a fully-fledged industry in its own right. While the speciality has long won its spurs in the United States, and particularly the Ontrack Company – world leader in the field – it has only now begun to gradually catch on in Europe as well. (...) [ 471 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
DARPA'S OPTIONS FOR 21ST CENTURY
	In unveiling its future scientific projects on Dec. 22, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) set the tone for its work in years to come during which it will put the accent strongly on inter-disciplinary research. (...) [ 345 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW JOB FOR WINKLER
	Ira Winkler, one of the world's foremost experts on computer security and information warfare, (IN 310) has been hired by Go Call Inc. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. ARMY UNIFIES SYSTEMS
	The New York-based firm Computer Associates International has won a contract to supply the U. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
GLOBAL HAWK IN MYSTERY CRASH
	Investigators looking into the crash of a $45 million Global Hawk unmanned spy plane in the California desert in March now think it might have been victim of a test signal. (...) [ 210 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	LITTLE CHANGE IN U.S. AIMS
		The report that the White House sent to congress on Jan. 4 on Washington's future strategic priorities didn't stray very far from the positions already outlined by the State Department and Pentagon. (...) [ 195 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	WASHINGTON WARMS TO SERBS
		The U.S. State Department has made discreet overtures to Serbs who stand in opposition to president Slobodan Milosevic, offering them a guarantee of protection for the Serb population living in war-torn Kosovo. (...) [ 395 words ] [ €5 ]

	LIECHTENSTEIN
	LIECHTENSTEIN BLASTED BY NEIGHBORS
		In response to recent accusations of money-laundering, Liechtenstein prime minister Mario Frick will announce the findings of an internal audit of the principality's financial establishments before the end of the month. (...) [ 548 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	PORTUGAL'S KEY ROLE IN EUROPEAN DEFENSE
		Over the past few weeks Europe's leading strategic think tanks and institutes have been paying special attention to Portugal. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	PENTAGON'S EFFORTS TAPERING OFF
		Efforts by the U.S. military to help in the fight against drugs have declined significantly since 1992 as a result of reductions in military budgets and the number of armed forces personnel, according to a report published by the General Accounting Office (GAO), which monitors public spending. (...) [ 168 words ] [ €1,5 ]