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SPOTLIGHT

EUROPE

Corporate Business Intelligence Takes Tough Turn

Business intelligence professionals operating in European corporate circles have appeared in the past two years to content themselves with less aggressive stances than in the past, gradually putting aside methods borrowed from the intelligence services: eavesdropping, black bag operations, blackmail and disinformation. (...) [ 624 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES
Congress Clears Way for Bush
	The U.S. intelligence community, specially close to the Bush family, is doing its best to disarm Congressional critics of American covert operations before George W. (...) [ 315 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Key Posts in Bush Administration
	The man most widely tipped to become CIA director in a George W. Bush administration is Porter Goss, a former CIA operative himself who now chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (...) [ 306 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
Michele Iversen
	After working for the Pentagon for 12 years and particularly for the NSA, Michele Iversen has chosen to join a number of her ex-colleagues in working for the NETSEC company. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
James Bilbray
	A former Democrat member of the House of Representatives from Nevada (1986-94), James Bilbray, has been appointed to the highly discreet Security Policy Advisory Board (SPAB) by President Bill Clinton. (...) [ 252 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAN
Mohsen Al Araki
	Representative of Iran's spiritual leader in London, mullah Mohsen Ali Araki is working overtime at present to bring together Islamist movements in Western Europe. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Breach Between CIA and PLO
	Diplomats on post in the Middle East are increasingly convinced the Palestinian uprising that began on Sept. 28 has put an end to close cooperation between the CIA and the Palestinian Authority's security services. (...) [ 453 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM

GCHQ Moves Into Limelight

A report by the British parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee covering the period 1999-2000 bears witness to the growing clout of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the United Kingdom's intelligence line-up. (...)
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FRANCE
New Elements on Thierry Imbot
	Intelligence Newsletter understands that France's DGSE intelligence agency, like the police, believes that its former agent, Thierry Imbot, met his death accidentally. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €1,5 ]

TURKEY
MIT Wants to Spare Ocalan
	The head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT), Senkal Atasagun, has come out in favor of sparing Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan who is under sentence of death. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

EUROPE
Globalization of Defense Industry
	The Royal Institute of International Affairs in London is organizing a conference in London on Jan. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
Bankers Size Up the Challenge
	A conference on ways of improving the fight against money laundering will be staged in Paris between Jan. (...) [ 149 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	FRANCE/MACEDONIA
	French Acquisition in Macedonia
		The Macedonian government has sealed a partnership with Societe Commerciale des Metaux et Minerais (SCMM) which belongs to the 76-year-old French national Jean-Pierre Rozan, who already holds a stake in the Trepca industrial complex in Kosovo. (...) [ 375 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	U.S. Calls on Banks to Impose Tax
		The world's major banking groups, and specially European, have sent discreet letters to their American customers in recent weeks to warn of a plan by the U. (...) [ 428 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
Better Tracking System for Internet
	After two years on the drawing board a new system for analyzing communications between computers and allowing for a geographic atlas of the Internet to be built has been patented by the U. (...) [ 512 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES

MIT's Breath-Through in Micro UAVs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Aerial Robotics Team has emerged as the favorite in the final phase of the world-wide International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). (...)
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UNITED STATES
Shredding at NIST
	According to a knowledgeable government source, Ray Kammer, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has ordered the systematic shredding of all of the agency's documents related to the ill-fated Clipper Chip scheme as the Clinton administration winds down. (...) [ 214 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Sigint Satellites Not Part of Echelon
	According to a recently-retired official who served at NSA, the US only puts a limited part of its technical resources at the disposal of the Echelon network developed by the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (...) [ 146 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
The Frogman's Story
	A former officer and researcher specializing in covert operations, Gerard Desmaretz has just published a highly technical work devoted to the various methods naval frogmen use to improve their performances. (...) [ 69 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	KOSOVO
	UCPMB's Objectives in Kosovo
		According to Intelligence Newsletter's military sources, relations have taken a strong turn for the worse between extremists from the Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac Liberation Army (UCPMB) and Kosovar political leaders who previously belonged to the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK). (...) [ 333 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE/JAPAN
	World-Wide Surveillance Network
		A G-8 sub-group on high-tech crime (the Lyons group) that met behind closed doors at Hiroshima in Japan between Nov. (...) [ 423 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE
	DCSSI Lifts the Veil, Slightly
		The French government's Computer Emergency Response Team that answers to the Direction Centrale de la Securite des Systemes d'Information (DCSSI) is organizing what could be described as a series of educational meetings. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	IRAN
	Fallout from a Security Overhaul in Iran
		The Islamic Republic's spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei, who is strongly at odds with moderate president Mohamed Khatami, has set up a committee to introduce reforms at the intelligence ministry or, in other words, to revamp Vavak. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES/RUSSIA
	Tracing Dubious Russian Funds
		The Office of Special Investigations which comes under the wing of the General Accounting Office, the Congressional watchdog, has issued a highly critical report on how money of criminal origin from East Europe has made its way into the American economy. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]