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SPOTLIGHT

FRANCE

THE HIDDEN FACE OF THOMSON-CSF

France's gendarmerie has carried out a number of discreet raids since Dec. 14 on the headquarters of Thomson-CSF, the residence of many leading executives and the offices of the defense electronic group's consultants. Intelligence Newsletter has learned that the swoops were carried out on orders of the Paris financial prosecutor's office and lifted a veil on some of Thomson's financial dealings. (...) [ 682 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

RUSSIA
THE DIFFERENT LIVES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
	Since Vladimir Putin was appointed acting president in the run-up to Russia's March 26 elections a lot of contradictory information has appeared to depict the rise of the former FSB boss. (...) [ 331 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI BUILDS UP CENTRAL EUROPEAN LINKS
	A cooperation pact signed between Hungarian interior minister Sandor Pinter and the U.S. ambassador to Budapest, Peter Tufo, on Jan. (...) [ 321 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
JOANNE ISHAM
	In the space of 16 months, Joanne Isham has been the third person to run the CIA's prestigious science and technology directorate. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

KUWAIT
ALA'A HUSSEIN ALI
	The head of the short-lived Kuwaiti government installed by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of the emirate surprised many observers by returning to Kuwait city on Jan. (...) [ 260 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/FRANCE
CLARIFICATION
	In response to an article entitled "How to Use NGO's for Lobbying and Espionage," in Intelligence Newsletter's January 6 issue, the secretary-general of the CIVITAS International association, Balazs Hidveghi, asked us to publish the following statement: (...) [ 135 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
BEVERLY WRIGHT
	As part of his "100 Days of Change" program NSA director Michael Hayden has created a new job designed to improve the agency's financial results. (...) [ 204 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. GEARS UP FOR CYBER PROTECTION
	A project to safeguard American computer systems known as the National Plan for International Systems Protection and announced by the White House on Jan. (...) [ 397 words ] [ €5 ]

BULGARIA
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-NARCOTICS PUSH
	Bulgarian interior minister Emanuil Yordanov put East Europe's cooperation with several western intelligence agencies on a concrete footing in Sofia on Jan. (...) [ 449 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GCHQ'S FACETIOUS ADS
	Britain's Goverment Communications Headquarters has just published an advertisement in the form of a puzzle on its web-site in the hope of recruiting future code-breakers. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
GOVERNMENT CALLS ON PRIVATE INDUSTRY
	A so-named Encryption Coordination Unit at Britain's Home Office is working to reach agreements with computer and telecommunications firms on finding encryption systems to enhance the security of electronic commerce. (...) [ 160 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
A GUIDE BOOK FOR FUTURE ANALYSTS
	The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has decided to market a book from the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) that could well become standard reading for future analysts. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BELGIUM
SHAKE-UP FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT
	Belgium's Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP), a unit set up to conduct special operations in hostile environments, is being overhauled after being re-established as a force in 1994. (...) [ 71 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
HOW MONITORING NETWORKS OPERATE
	A conference on setting up and running a monitoring network will be held at the Hotel Sofitel Rive Gauche in Paris between April 18-20. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
AOC'S OPERATIONS GET-TOGETHER
	The U.S. Association of Old Crows is staging an information operations conference at the U. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	NATO AND EUROCORPS FACE OFF
		In early December NATO defense ministers gave every sign of welcoming a French-German proposal to put Eurocorps in command of KFOR in Kosovo. (...) [ 255 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	LONDON GANG BEHIND IMMIGRANT TRADE
		Police in France are stepping up action against traffickers who convey illegal immigrants through the Channel tunnel to the United Kingdom. (...) [ 314 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE
THE BREAK-AND-ENTRY SPECIALISTS
	Just as people are learning how to lock their doors more effectively clandestine break-and-entry methods have become ever more sophisticated. (...) [ 566 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
NEW RULES FOR U.S. ENCRYPTION SALES
	Five months after announcing a lifting of clamps on the export of encryption over 64 bits in length (IN 366), the U. (...) [ 251 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
COMPETITION FOR AES CLOSING
	The competitors still in the running for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition had until Jan. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
FRENCH FRIGATES
	The French armaments board, Delegation Generale pour l'Armement, recently made a major push to improve the stealth characteristics of the French frigates that France is trying to sell to Singapore. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
PRIVATIZING SATELLITE IMAGES
	The debate on whether private operators should sell satellite images to one and all has taken a concrete turn. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	AUSTRIA/PALESTINE
	ABU NABU THREAT OVER AUSTRIA
		Austria is running a clear risk of retaliation in coming weeks and months following the Jan. 13 arrest of a Palestinian woman who is clearly close to 65-year-old Sabri al Banna, alias Abu Nidal. (...) [ 479 words ] [ €5 ]

	LEBANON/CHECHNYA
	CHECHEN REINFORCEMENTS FROM LEBANON
		Intelligence Newsletter sources close to fundamentalist circles in Beirut report that major networks have sprung up to convey fighters to Chechnya. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	THE DELICATE JOB OF APPLYING OECD PACT
		Several delicate cases are to shortly be examined by a dozen aides recently appointed to the OECD Anti-Corruption unit that will work to implement the organization's new Convention against the corruption of foreign government officials. (...) [ 313 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAN/PAKISTAN
	COOPERATION CLOSE-DOWN BETWEEN IRAN AND PAKISTAN
		Western military experts who asked to remain anonymous claim that several military cooperation agreements between Iran and Pakistan were frozen last year. (...) [ 84 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE/SWITZERLAND
	BCGE ACCUSED
		Intelligence Newsletter has additional details about the alleged money-laundering operations said to involve the French affiliate of the Banque Cantonale de Geneve (IN 372). (...) [ 81 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	HUNGARY
	INTELLIGENCE CHIEF UNDER INVESTIGATION
		The military procurer in Budapest, who has jurisdiction over the secret service, has launched legal action against Ferenc Hevesi Toth, former head of the state security service Nemzet Biztonsagi Szolgalat (NBSZ) and several of his former deputies on allegations they embezzled close to $400,000. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]