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SPOTLIGHT

EUROPE

The West’s Questionable Ways in Kosovo

Intelligence Newsletter has learned that the lawyer of col. Jean-Michel Mechain filed a complaint against the French defense ministry on Dec. 23, the very day the public prosecutor’s office lifted a probation order on him that had restricted his movements since Feb. (...) [ 753 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED STATES

Bush to Bolster NSC

see "What does the NSC look like?" (attached document)

With only days to go before George W. Bush’s swearing-in as president on Jan. 20 the U.S. intelligence community is bracing for some major changes. (...)
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UNITED STATES
Ashroft the Dark Horse
	The appointment of defeated Missouri senator John Ashcroft as Attorney General came as a complete surprise to many Washington insiders. (...) [ 425 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
Lewis Libby
	Vice President-elect Dick Cheney has picked a former deputy under-secretary of defense, Lewis Libby, as his chief-of-staff but also as his assistant for national security affairs. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €5 ]

ROMANIA
Catalin Harnagea
	On January 5, Catalin Harnagea, chief of Romania’s foreign intelligence agency SRI, officially handed in his resignation to the government. (...) [ 240 words ] [ €5 ]

LEBANON
Wadih El Hage
	Since the trial of four alleged accomplices of millionaire Ussama Ben Laden opened in New York on January 3, legal experts are focusing their attention mainly on one man in dock, Wadih El Hage. (...) [ 399 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE
Belgians Acknowledge ILETS
	Ever since its existence was revealed by the British NGO Statewatch (IN 306) three years ago nobody has doubted the existence of the International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar. (...) [ 368 words ] [ €5 ]

EGYPT
Details of Tenet’s Talks
	Working on information from several diplomatic sources on post in Cairo, Intelligence Newsletter has managed to piece together the various points that CIA director George Tenet raised during talks with other intelligence officials in the Egyptian capital on January 7-8. (...) [ 489 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Clinton’s New Service Stirs Skepticism
	American legislators with ties to the intelligence community are displaying a lot of skepticism concerning president Bill Clinton’s idea of establishing a new agency to head counter-intelligence operations in the U. (...) [ 214 words ] [ €1,5 ]

RUSSIA
Moscow Joins Money-Laundering Fight
	Although Russia takes part in international initiatives against money-laundering, such as those led by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), it has never actually set up a service to combat financial crime. (...) [ 91 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

UNITED STATES
Applying Biometrics in Industry
	A meeting devoted to practical applications of biometrics is to be held between Feb. (...) [ 104 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
What Tomorrow Will Bring
	A number of leading experts are to meet at Priverno near Rome between Feb. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	LEBANON
	Black List of Fundamentalist Chiefs
		In the run-up to the Sixth Congress of Lebanon’s Hezbollah that will be held at a secret venue during the last three days in January, Intelligence Newsletter has come into possession of part of a list of leaders of fundamentalist organizations considered as the most dangerous. (...) [ 333 words ] [ €5 ]

	FRANCE/SWITZERLAND
	Falcone Denied Resident Status
		Any French national applying for a resident’s card in Switzerland who has a clean record and lots of money in his pocket normally has no problem in both landing the card and having it renewed every year. (...) [ 557 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

EUROPE

Euro Military R&D a Fragmented Affair

A lot of important questions on how to improve the competitiveness of armaments technology in Europe remain unanswered at present even as the Organisation Conjointe de Cooperation en Matiere d’Armement (OCCAR) becomes a fully-fledged legal entity this month. (...)
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EUROPE
Year 2001: Heaven Can Wait
	In failing to agree to launch the development phase of Galileo during a meeting on Dec. 22, the European Union’s transportation ministers have compelled all parties involved in the program to work to a tighter schedule. (...) [ 302 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Rebel Software
	The medium-sized American NGO Peacefire has just developed software that can neutralize programs that control access to web sites. (...) [ 112 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Ownership Change
	A company that specializes in military communications, L-3 Communications, has just bought Coleman Research Corporation for $60 million. (...) [ 126 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
An Era Changes
	Aged 70, Neal Lane, the U.S. president’s advisor on science and technology and head of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, has decided to leave his post. (...) [ 177 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	RUSSIA
	Russians in Aluminum Case
		The consortium Russian Aluminum is facing allegations in the United States of trying to corner Russia’s aluminum market by a combination of murder, extortion, mail and wire fraud. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	Security is Diamond’s Best Friend
		The final closed-door meeting of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy before George W. Bush takes office on January 20 focused on finding secure ways of marking diamonds as certified and of securing diamond e-commerce through the use of cryptography. (...) [ 183 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Criminal Hand in Market Rigging
		Officials from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appear persuaded that criminal gangs may have had a hand in the runaway rise and then fall of certain stocks on the Nasdaq electronic market. (...) [ 449 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Meeting With New Team
		The U.S. Threat Reduction Advisory Committee that advises the Pentagon on a wide range of threats will meet with President George W. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	FRANCE
	The Sales That Weren’t Counted
		Since 1998 the French defense ministry has made a genuine effort to lift veils by submitting a list of French arms exports every year to the French Parliament. (...) [ 123 words ] [ €1,5 ]