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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

The Politically-Driven Jump in Eavesdropping

In the wake of a regulatory shake-up, a spectacular rise has taken place in the number of authorizations to tap telephones for reasons of national security in the United States. Intelligence Online sat in on a forum organized by the American Bar Association's standing committee on law and national security in Washington on Dec. (...) [ 610 words ] [ €7 ]

Political Intelligence

MOSCOW, ATHENS, GENEVA
Negociations
	IN MOSCOW, there has been hard bargaining between the FSB security service and the Kremlin. (...) [ 174 words ] [ €1,3 ]

DIPLOMACY
France Still Rules Monaco
	Early in November, Monaco very discreetly approached Paris in an attempt to re-negotiate the principality's links with France. (...) [ 314 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

PARIS
Jean-Luc Vo Van Qui
	A mining engineer, Jean-Luc Vo Van Qui, took over as head of France's Direction des Technologies et des Transferts Sensibles from Michel Ferrier two weeks ago. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,3 ]

WASHINGTON
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
	Pakistan's new ambassador to Washington, Ashraf Jehanger Qazi, can be expected to represent the positions of Pakistani president Pervez Musharaf rather more discreetly than his predecessor. (...) [ 254 words ] [ €1,3 ]

SECURITY
Al Baraka's Counter-Offensive
	The Al Baraka business empire that has seen some of its branches accused of links with Al Qaeda is going to mount a high-profile counter-attack. (...) [ 507 words ] [ €4 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

PARIS
House Cleaning at DGSE Confirmed
	The French defense ministry has approved a new organizational chart for France's foreign intelligence agency DGSE, which comes under its authority. (...) [ 190 words ] [ €4 ]

WASHINGTON
Fresh Reprimand for NRO
	The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) that runs Washington's space intelligence effort has encountered yet another setback in building the next generation of spy satellites. (...) [ 146 words ] [ €4 ]

WASHINGTON
Competition for Tenet
	A joint Senate-House panel investigating the intelligence breakdown that led to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks concluded in a report released on Dec. (...) [ 48 words ] [ FREE ]

Montenegro
U.S. Backs Embattled Minister
	The American ambassador to the Yugoslav federation, William Montgomery, is putting pressure on Montenegro prime minister Milo Djukanovic to refrain from firing the country's interior minister. (...) [ 216 words ] [ €4 ]

PARIS
DGSE Talks with Tokyo
	The head of the anti-terrorism department in the Japanese foreign ministry, Hideaki Mizukoshi, was in Paris this week. He consulted with the DGSE's specialists on Al Qaeda. (...) [ 31 words ] [ FREE ]

DIPLOMACY
Moscow Bolsters Yukos Empire
	The Yukos oil company has emerged as the Kremlin's second powerful arm in the energy strategy it crafted towards Europe and the U.S. following September, 2001. (...) [ 672 words ] [ €4 ]

MOSCOW
Why 50 Aircraft for Gazprom ?
	Russia's Gazprom group has just ordered 50 Kamov Ka-226 transport helicopters powered by Rolls Royce 250-C20R engines. (...) [ 127 words ] [ €1,3 ]

LONDON
Why Carlyle Bought into Qinetiq ?
	The U.S. investment fund Carlyle's acquisition of a major stake in Qinetiq could prove highly significant. (...) [ 138 words ] [ €1,3 ]

WASHINGTON
Navy Boss as Ridge's Right-Hand Man ?
	The U.S. Navy secretary Gordon England, who was once vice-president of General Dynamics, could well become Tom Ridge's deputy in the Department of Homeland Security. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Agenda

DECEMBER 20 > RIYADH
Watching a Satellite Launch
	Prince Turki bin Saud who is in charge of Saudi Arabia's space research institute, will be in direct contact with the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan on Dec. (...) [ 89 words ] [ €1,3 ]

JANUARY 6 > NEVADA
Space Supremacy at Stake
	The Association of Old Crows that represents electronic warfare experts is organizing a classified conference at Nellis US Air Force base in Nevada on January 6-7. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,3 ]

JANUARY 16 > PARIS
State of Play with Cyber Crime
	The Club de la Securite des Systemes d'Information Francaise (CLUSIF) will present a report on cyber-crime in Paris on Jan. (...) [ 69 words ] [ €1,3 ]

JANUARY 27 > NEW YORK
Off-Balance Sheet Lessons
	A conference concerning changes in accounting rules that allow for off-balance sheet financing will be held in New York on Jan. (...) [ 79 words ] [ €1,3 ]

FEBRUARY 1 > HARTFORD
New Job
	George Jamison, vice president for Hughes Electronics Corp has been named head of communications for United Technologies Corp, with effect from February. (...) [ 29 words ] [ FREE ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	PARIS
	Clipping the Wings of Magistrates?
		The final phase in building a case in the ?Clipping the Bird's Wings? scandal has proved tough on lawyers and prosecutors alike. (...) [ 532 words ] [ €4 ]

	WASHINGTON, PARIS, LONDON
	Weak Signals
		IN WASHINGTON, the lobbying concern Fleishman-Hillard can be expected to win contracts from defense suppliers to defend their interests with officials from the newly-established Department of Homeland Security, which will have a huge budget. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €4 ]

FIRMS

WASHINGTON
Airbus Calls on Sandy Berger
	To win friends among American decision-makers, Europe's Airbus Industrie has called on the services of a public relations firm run by Samuel Berger, former head of the National Security Council between 1997-2000. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €4 ]

LONDON
Hakluyt's Report Ends Up In Court.
	Did the British private intelligence agency Hakluyt deliberately paint an unfavorable picture of the Czech concern Moravian Oil Mining Company and are the accusations in its report true? (...) [ 296 words ] [ €4 ]

WASHINGTON
Lockheed Takes on Anti-Castro Figurehead
	The U.S. aeronautics group Lockheed Martin has asked Gardner Peckham to serve as one of its lobbyists with Congress. Peckham, a former adviser on security questions to the speaker of the House of Representatives, currently works as an executive of BKSH, an affiliate of Burson-Marsteller that handles the big public relations group's dealings with government. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €4 ]

PARIS
Dire Rumblings at Kroll
	Winds of change - if not a hurricane - are swirling through the Paris office of Kroll Worldwide this week, and someone close to the firm says ? (...) [ 82 words ] [ €4 ]

LONDON
Control Risks Draws from Open Sources
	For the past few weeks, the British risk assessment and management firm Control Risks Group has been offering an online service for expatriates living in dangerous areas in conjunction with the insurance firm IHI. (...) [ 71 words ] [ FREE ]

	LONDON
	Kroll vs Penumbra: 2nd Round
		The battle between Punumbra and Kroll that we revealed in our last issue (IOL 442) reportedly originated from an operation involving LVMH. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

SAN FRANCISCO
Craig Chretien
	The managing director of the risk consulting firm IPSA's Los Angeles office, Craig Chretien, is to take charge of building up the firm's international business. (...) [ 146 words ] [ €1,3 ]

PARIS
Bernard Delafaye
	The activities of the Lagardere Group's comptroller-general and former magistrate Bernard Delafaye are regularly cited by lawyers for various persons placed under formal investigation in the ? (...) [ 249 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Influence Strategy

	GENERAL NAJIB AL SALHI
	Campaign for a Future Iraqi Chief
		Behind the London gathering of Iraqi opposition movements, the Pentagon is grooming an Iraqi army defector better known in his country than the regime's external opponents to take over the reins in Baghdad. (...) [ 453 words ] [ €4 ]

Risk Assesment

	PAKISTAN
	Terrorism
		Pakistan remains very much a high risk zone for Western interests, according to a report of the United Nation's Monitoring Group headed by diplomat Michael Chandler. (...) [ 45 words ] [ FREE ]

	SAUDI ARABIA
	Financial crime
		The new freeze in relations between Washington and Riyadh could lead to a revival of long-buried money laundering scandals. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	INDONESIA
	Financial crime
		As a direct consequence of the bomb attack in Bali, Indonesia is going to tighten its money-laundering laws, several government officials declared at a conference on laundering. (...) [ 68 words ] [ €1,3 ]