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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES/PAKISTAN

NMD and Counter-Proliferation: A New Ball Game

Tommy Frank, commander in chief of the US Central Command, made a discreet trip to Pakistan between Jan. 16-18. His talks with head of state general Pervez Musharraf concerned the weapons of mass destruction that Pakistan possesses. With the new Bush administration coming to office determined to adopt a National Missile Defense (NMD) system as soon as possible the Pentagon was trying once again to persuade one of the world’s most instable nuclear powers to accept international controls on proliferation and urged it to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) –something the U. (...) [ 702 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
Soul-Searching at DRM
	According to Intelligence Newsletter sources close to French military intelligence Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) the agency is in the grips of deep crisis. (...) [ 363 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
DPSD Turns Over New Leaf
	After a very rough year in 2000, the French defense ministry’s internal security agency ---Direction de la Protection et de la Securite de la Defense (DPSD) – is gradually embracing change. (...) [ 354 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

UNITED STATES
Edward Jurith
	Since Jan. 10, Edward Jurith has been acting director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. He succeeded Barry McCaffrey who quit the post in the first week of January so for the time being the 49-year-old Jurith is the new Bush administration’s drug czar in charge of the U. (...) [ 214 words ] [ €5 ]

JAPAN
Imai Tadashi
	There’s been a change at the top at the Japanese foreign ministry’s Analysis and Intelligence Branch. Its chief, Takano Toshiyuki, was replaced early this month by Imai Tadashi. (...) [ 293 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
Laila Chahid
	In recent weeks, Laila Chahid, the Palestinian Authority’s representative in France, has asked Yasser Arafat several times to accept her resignation. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM
How MI6 Spies on its Neighbors
	In a book he has just published in Russia, Richard Tomlinson, a former British secret agent who spent some time in jail in the U. (...) [ 336 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Clarke Helps to Complete Transition
	In a striking example of the immense power of the national security bureaucracy in the U.S., Richard Clarke, former president Bill Clinton’s National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-Terrorism, has been asked discreetly by the new Bush administration to stay on to help the transition at the National Security Council. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €5 ]

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Counter-Espionage Rift
	Yasser Arafat chaired a meeting on Jan. 12 at the General Intelligence Service’s headquarters concerning Israeli infiltration of Palestinian security. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Why the CIA Plays Up its Middle East Role
	Opinions at CIA headquarters differ as to why director George Tenet’s travels in the Middle East always get so much attention. (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
FBI’s Uncomfortable Position in Uganda
	Eavesdropping operations by the National Security Agency at its stations in Uganda and Rwanda are said to have put the FBI in a particularly uncomfortable position. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
Detailed List of DGSE’s Secret Funds
	Contrary to widespread belief, the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE’s use of "secret" funds isn’t all that secret. (...) [ 129 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

SWITZERLAND
The Swiss Lobby Marshals its Forces
	Although it could appear to be a hoax, the same company that specializes in organizing seminars in Paris on the theme of fighting against money-laundering is staging a seminar in Geneva on the many ways of managing money in the deepest secrecy. (...) [ 244 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
Shaping Business Strategies
	A two day seminar on forging business strategy in Europe’s defense market is being organized by IBC Global Conferences Ltd. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/FRANCE

How Paris Arms the UAE

Intelligence Newsletter has obtained proof that France knowingly agreed in 1998 to sell proliferating equipment to the United Arab Emirates. (...)
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	AFGHANISTAN
	Why Bin Laden Appears on Television
		Working from his lair in Afghanistan the Saudi Arabian-born Ussama Bin Laden has been discreetly beefing up Brigade 055, his unit that specializes in overseas attacks. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
NSA, Master of the Quantum Universe
	A senior official of the National Security Agency (NSA) has told Intelligence Newsletter that the code-breaking agency now has fully operational quantum computers capable of "breaking any encrypted message. (...) [ 285 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Nanotechnology Fight Shapes Up
	Advisers to the new U.S. president George W. Bush made reassuring noises last week about the fate of several scientific research programs kicked off by the previous administration. (...) [ 478 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. Space Command’s Resources
	Ten years after the start of the Gulf War, the National Security Archive, a research unit at George Washington University that specializes in intelligence questions, has received a wealth of new documents on the conflict from the Pentagon. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
NIPC Builds Tighter Shield
	The FBI is putting the final touches to a government-private sector program aimed at protecting critical infrastructure by detecting break-ins by hackers. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Using the Brain Drain
	A company in New Mexico that specializes in mining exploration and in equipment to detect land-mines, has found a novel way of building up its business while helping in the fight against weapons proliferation. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	Strange Fall of the House of Andre
		The Andre group, which remains Switzerland’s most mysterious industrial giant, is facing an unprecedented crisis. Its links with Russian businessmen involved in different financial scandals may have something to do with its troubles. (...) [ 532 words ] [ €5 ]

	ISRAEL
	Doubts over Check Point’s Integrity
		A number of new elements have surfaced to raise questions over the integrity of some equipment marketed by the Israeli company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Private Firms Build their Own Information Protection System
		The biggest information technology firms in the U.S. have finally agreed to work together to open a joint Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) that will be tantamount to a private anti-hacker network. (...) [ 198 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	GERMANY
	Funds Laundered by German Banks
		The deals that German banks did with Russian businessmen in the early 1990s are coming back to haunt them in a major way. (...) [ 155 words ] [ €1,5 ]