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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/EUROPE

What Laws to Govern Private Intelligence?

The widespread belief in the supposed legality of gleaning business intelligence isn't enough in itself to allow private intelligence firms off the hook from a legal standpoint. There is, in fact, need for a genuine legal framework for the industry if only because it is spreading its wings increasingly into the world of consultancy. (...) [ 694 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
Distributing Echelon's Information
	According to sources close to Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the distribution of data gleaned by the Echelon eavesdropping system is done through a network that the agencies involved in the endeavor call Platform II. (...) [ 217 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Justice Department's Anti-Crime Network
	The biggest judicial information network in the U.S. will shortly see the light of day no matter what administration is voted into office on Nov. (...) [ 386 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
Ronald Noble
	Ronald Noble's appointment as secretary-general of Interpol makes him the first American to head the international organization since its inception. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

EGYPT
Mustafa Al Mukri
	Increasingly criticized by senior members of his movement, sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman may shortly be obliged to stand down as spiritual leader of the Jamaa Islamiya, Egypt's biggest armed fundamentalist group. (...) [ 262 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES

William Fraser

Aged 47, general William Fraser will become the new deputy director of the highly secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Dec. (...)
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UNITED STATES
Knives Out Behind the Official Secrets Act
	A high degree of in-fighting concerning the public's right to classified information is marking the final days of the Clinton administration. (...) [ 436 words ] [ €5 ]

YEMEN
Upshot of Cooperation with FBI
	According to an Intelligence Newsletter source close to the inquiry in Sanaa into the bomb attack against the American destroyer USS Cole, cooperation between Yemen's security services and the FBI helped investigators uncover the logistics behind the suicide assault. (...) [ 448 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
Intelligence Agencies Get a Raise
	The resources that France will earmark in next year's budget for its intelligence agencies have been examined in detail by the French Parliament's defense and armed forces committee. (...) [ 420 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE
New Line-Up at Interpol
	During its 69th General Assembly in Rhodes on Nov. 3, Interpol chose Ronald Noble, an American expert on financial crime (see page 8), as its secretary-general for the coming five years. (...) [ 161 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
Taking Stock of Changes
	A 3rd Conference of European Financial Prosecutors Offices will be staged in Paris on Dec. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
The Latest in Satellite Communications
	The Global Milsatcom 2000 conference on military satellites will be held in London on Nov. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	EUROPE
	30 Days to Build Europe's Defenses
		The institutions involved in forging a defense policy for the European Union have entered a crucial period that will culminate on Dec. (...) [ 484 words ] [ €5 ]

	YUGOSLAVIA
	Montenegro a New Sanctuary
		The republic of Montenegro could well become a haven for financiers seeking anonymity to establish offshore money centers. Indeed, Montenegro's government, perhaps anticipating the fall of Slobodan Milosevic as head of the Yugoslav Federation, adopted a bill on July 26 that allows foreign nationals to start up offshore in the country. (...) [ 473 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES

Satellites New Defense Shield

After the setback that defenders of the National Missile Defense (NMD) project suffered this summer the Pentagon is relying on its future, world-wide infrared surveillance system to meet its objectives. (...)
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SWITZERLAND
A Voice-Recognition Start-up
	An independent company named VOXCom and tasked with developing applications of research into voice recognition has been set up by the Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP), an organization founded by Switzerland's telecommunications company, Swisscom, and the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne. (...) [ 422 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Private Sector Pushes New Products
	The market for satellite-based information for the public at large has taken a fresh turn. (...) [ 189 words ] [ €1,5 ]

CHINA
China Hoists Satellite into Orbit
	In the coming five years China could well possess its own positioning system by satellite to rival the American Global Positioning System (GPS) or Europe's Galileo. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Anti-Intrusion Study for U.S. Air Force
	The Logicon company, an affiliate of the defense contractor Northrop Grumman, is to carry out a study on preventing hackers from breaking into wireless information networks. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	Banks in Public Relations Exercise
		At the initiative of Switzerland's two biggest establishments, UBS and Credit Suisse, and Citigroup of the U.S., 11 international banks pledged on Oct. (...) [ 455 words ] [ €5 ]

	PALESTINE
	Failed Coup Against Arafat
		According to a leading personality in Fateh who talked with an Intelligence Newsletter correspondent, Palestinian leaders were preparing to oust Yasser Arafat as the Intifada they had planned against Israel was in full swing. (...) [ 289 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	Final Phase of Council of Europe's Convention
		A sub-group of experts dealing with high tech crime in the G8 countries met in Berlin on Oct. (...) [ 134 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	AUSTRIA
	End to Austria Haven
		An even more secretive tax haven than Switzerland, Austria discreetly did away with anonymous savings accounts in November. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]