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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

Princes of Private U.S. Intelligence

For nearly a year the private intelligence market in the U.S. has been swept by change. Giants like Kroll Associates have stumbled while smaller rivals have gradually won a dominating position, like the ArmorGroup company. Beyond the change in ranking among the trade’s Top 5, however, the market has also been divided up into three main categories of service providers; the first category are the global providers that deal with economic intelligence, lobbying activity and security; the second concerns companies that deal almost exclusively in investigative services; and the third encompasses companies with strong connections to the Pentagon that are enticed by the administration’s privatization of some types of intelligence work. (...) [ 671 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

FRANCE
New Strategy for DGSE?
	According to Intelligence Newsletter sources at the French foreign ministry, Bruno Joubert, strategy director at DGSE since 1997, will quit the French secret service in coming months. (...) [ 182 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
CIA Links with L.A. Drug Dealers
	Sources in the U.S. Congress are continuing to speculate about a now-suppressed House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report on the CIA’s alleged role in the trafficking of crack cocaine into Los Angeles. (...) [ 475 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

SLOVAKIA
Vladimir Bencek
	The boss of Slovakia’s new domestic intelligence service NBU, Vladimir Bencek, was forced to step down early this month. Under the wing of the interior ministry, the NBU sees to the protection of government information, the security of communications system and manages encryption services. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Michael Carns
	A discreet retired U.S. Air Force general, Michael Carns, was named a director at the equally discreet company Dyn Corp (see Spotlight) on Feb. (...) [ 308 words ] [ €5 ]

KUWAIT
Abdullah Al Mutawa
	Just as she was leaving the State Department, Madeleine Albright consulted lengthily with her Kuwati counterpart, Sabah Al Ahmed, to warn him about the danger of a rising tide of fundamentalism in his country. (...) [ 199 words ] [ €5 ]


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UNITED STATES
NSA’s On-Line Database
	A document declassified last week and obtained by Intelligence Newsletter reveals the existence of an on-line database covering all interceptions carried out by the National Security Agency. (...) [ 439 words ] [ €5 ]

GERMANY
Personnel Problems at BND
	Starting from mid-February, the appeals court in Munich will have to decide how far Germany’s secret service can go in demanding that a dishonest source pay back money received for his information. (...) [ 450 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM

The Treasury Vents the Secret Service’s Spleen

Having failed to halt publication of a book by ex-spy Richard Tomlinson on his career in MI6 (IN 398), the British authorities are voicing their ire by freezing his U. (...)
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UNITED STATES
New Puzzle Palace Coming Up
	The autrhor of the best seller Puzzle Palace, James Bamford, plans to publish a follow-up to the book that is due to be issued on April 14. (...) [ 117 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Tenet Before Senate Panel
	CIA director George Tenet spoke on Feb. 7 before the first hearing of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee since president George W. (...) [ 228 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

EUROPE
Protection Systems
	A conference on the fight against counterfeiting will be organized in Prague on March 16 in partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce’s Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
What Engine for What Search?
	A technical conference on the capacity and evolution of search engines will be held in Boston on April 9-10. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	EUROPE
	Euro An Ideal Target
		With less than a year to go before the Euro becomes common currency in 12 European Union countries no real policy has emerged concerning the potential misuse of the money by criminals. (...) [ 356 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES/EUROPE
	Marc Rich’s Friends in Europe
		A company owned by the controversial American millionaire Marc Rich and based in the Swiss canton of Zug, Marc Rich & Co. (...) [ 320 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

UNITED STATES
Technical Challenge of Micro UAVs
	In the past month at Arlington, Virginia, the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency’s Aeronautic Systems Division has begun the last, concrete stretch of its program to develop and build a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV). (...) [ 563 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Big Brother Watched Super Bowl
	A surveillance system set up at Tampa stadium in Florida for the Super Bowl on January 18 has triggered the fury of U. (...) [ 273 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Role Change for UAVs
	Long considered earmarked exclusively for intelligence-gathering missions, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appear set to come into wider use. (...) [ 150 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Private Encrypted Telephone
	The L-3 Communications firm unveiled its new Privatel secure voice telephone encryption system at the Comnet 2001 convention in Washington last week. (...) [ 192 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
Priority to Human Factor
	The 97th Intelligence Squadron of the U.S. Air Force’s 55th Wing is pulling out all the stops to recruit linguists to monitor and analyze intercepts. (...) [ 97 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	SWITZERLAND
	Geneva to Crack Down on Lawyers
		A left-wing coalition made up of socialists, communists, ecologists and former left-wing extremists now holds a tiny, two seat majority in Geneva’s local parliament, Grand Conseil Genevois. (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

	SAUDI ARABIA
	Political Shifts in Saudi Arabia
		A lot of political in-fighting has taken place in the "silent empire" over the past weeks and resulted in a shift in power between the royal family’s two clans. (...) [ 377 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Pentagon Takes the Lead
		If the new U.S. administration goes ahead with its National Missile Defense (NMD) there will inevitably be a stronger focus on the danger of weapons of mass destruction. (...) [ 316 words ] [ €5 ]

	PERU/SWITZERLAND
	A Peruvian Client Spoils Party
		Eleven international financial establishments pledged last October 30 to fight against money laundering. Their pledge even took the name of "the Wolfsberg Principles" after the name of UBS’ training center overlooking Lake Constance in Switzerland. (...) [ 270 words ] [ €5 ]

	EUROPE
	European Union Launches Drive Against Card Fraud
		The European Commission is expected on Feb. 6 to announce a major drive against fraud and counterfeiting of credit and payment cards that currently costs victims Euro 600 million annually in the 15-nation EU. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]