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SPOTLIGHT

SPACE

A Push for European Space Intelligence in 2002

The new year could prove crucial to Europe’s future observation satellites Helios 2, Spot 5, SkyMed Cosmos and SAR Lupe. On January 1 supervision of the Torrejon Satellite Center in Spain and its analysis of images, previously overseen by the Western European Union was formally transferred to the European Union. (...) [ 707 words ] [ €8 ]

Political Intelligence

DIPLOMACY
Assault of Iraq Shaping Up
	Military and Turkish military sources have confirmed to Intelligence Online that preparations for military operations against Iraq have reached an "advanced" stage. Elsewhere, Ankara and Tehran are stepping up contacts. (...) [ 699 words ] [ €5 ]

TERRORISM

Berlin Offers Secret Services Tougher Powers

The German Interior minister Otto Schily

The German interior ministry took advantage of shock waves from Sept. 12 to beef up the resources of agencies under his wing. BfV emerged as the biggest winner. (...)
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DECISION MAKERS

FRANCE
Jean-Francois Gayraud
	According to Intelligence Online sources close to the interior minister’s staff, the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. prompted a large number of American companies to call on the services of the French security agencies. (...) [ 138 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES

Dale Watson

A shakeup in the FBI announced last Dec. 3 has led to Dale Watson emerging as the real boss of anti-terrorist investigations in the United States. (...)
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CYBERSPACE
Washington Cracks Down on Leaks
	U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft has moved to set up a task force to prevent leaks of classified information, deeming such action to be "absolutely essential." (...) [ 555 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

SYRIA
Shake-Up for Security Services
	Syrian president Bacher Assad announced an overhaul of his secret services on Dec. 13 along with the appointment of a new interior minister, gen. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
Tel Aviv Gets Better of Fox News?
	The American television channel Fox News controlled by Rupert Murdoch may have gotten the worse of a political standoff between Washington and Tel Aviv. (...) [ 436 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
DGSE Invests in Interception Gear
	The French foreign intelligence agency DGSE intends to pay priority once again in 2002 to fleshing out its electromagnetic resources. (...) [ 165 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAN
Will Tehran Master Nuclear Bomb Technology by 2005?
	The Iranian nuclear station at Buchehr is scheduled to enter service in 2005 when a first section begins to operate. (...) [ 223 words ] [ €1,5 ]

EUROPE
What New Ties Await Mossad in East Europe?
	Over the past six months, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad has been working to establish fresh contacts with leaders in central Europe. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	FRANCE
	How Meanings Can Change
		The French academic Philippe Beaumard is preparing to publish an article challenging the theories underpinning information warfare, such as they are accepted by governments and corporations. (...) [ 135 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

UNITED STATES
Burson In On-Line Surveillance Move
	Increasingly called upon to measure and control the impact of on-line information on a company’s reputation, Burson Marsteller has just formed a partnership with a specialist in researching online information, Cyveillance. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Incepta Puts Money "on Business Intelligence

The U.K. communications group Incepta made a striking debut on the investigative and business intelligence market on Dec. 28 by acquiring the American firm Global Intelligence and Security LLC (GIS). (...)
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EUROPE
Copernic Becomes More Complicated
	The most celebrated but also the simplest intelligent agent has grown more complex in step with evolutions in the market for business intelligence tools. (...) [ 208 words ] [ €5 ]

EUROPE

Bulgaria Discovers it has a Nuclear Lobby

Kozloduy power station, the lone nuclear facility in Bulgaria

The fate of Bulgaria’s lone nuclear power station will be decided by the International Chamber of Commerce’s arbitration board. Behind the case lies a power struggle between former communists and reform-minded Bulgarians. (...)
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	WASHINGTON
	Siemens Lands a Lobby Luminary
		Germany’s Siemens has depended largely on some of the best lobbyists in Washington to help it make its way on the U.S. market. It has just recruited Jack Bergen, one of the trade’s leading lights. (...) [ 236 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

UNITED STATES
Thomas Overby
	After a one-year running in period, Thomas Overeby, former president of the private investigative company Parvus International, has managed to propel his new company into the front line of promising start-ups on the security market on the East Coast. (...) [ 190 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE

Jean-Martin Folz

A new French period at the pinnacle of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), the European car industry’s trade association, began on Jan. (...)
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Agenda

	INTELLIGENCE
	Strategic Management of Innovation
		The French research ministry is sponsoring a conference entitled International Forum for the Management of Research, Innovation and New Technologies in Paris on Feb. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €1,5 ]