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SPOTLIGHT

SECURITY

Anti-Terrorism Fight Changes the Game

Government intelligence and security agencies are no exception to the rule: a dramatic event can modify official structures far more lastingly than any long-considered political decision. The battle against the Al Qaeda movement has vastly changed the way security is dealt with in Washington, London and Paris. (...) [ 666 words ] [ €8 ]

Political Intelligence

SECURITY
Riddles of Operation Millennium
	The recent unearthing of a case of drug trafficking between Bogota and Riyadh indicates the episode may have initially been covered up for reasons of state. (...) [ 515 words ] [ €5 ]

NEGOCIATIONS
GIAT
	GIAT doesn't know which Leclerc tank to promote. With the French land rmaments company GIAT hard at work designing a successor to its Leclerc tank designated Leclerc 2 (it is still very much under wraps), the group is finding it increasingly difficult to conclude agonizingly long negotiations with Saudi Arabia for a sale of the vehicle. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

LONDON
Francis Richards
	Francis Richards will leave his job as head of Britain's signals intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in March. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
Gilles Andreani
	Without the least fanfare, French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin appointed a new chief of the Centre d'Analyse et de Prevision (CAP), the Quai d'Orsay's strategic intelligence unit, at the end of 2002. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DIPLOMACY
Trans-Afghan Back in Business
	The project for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline which the World Bank has been handling since last year (IOL 430) now seems likely to take off. That is, if stability in the region allows for it. (...) [ 334 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

LONDON
FSA Takes on Royal Bank of Scotland
	Has Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) punished the Royal Bank of Scotland more for preventive reasons than for a real transgression? (...) [ 90 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
Financial Cops Question Lee on Frigates
	It was confirmed to Intelligence Online that the French examining magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke questioned the Chinese-American lawyer William Lee, one-time adviser to Alain Gomez, former boss of Thomson-CSF, in Paris on Dec. (...) [ 454 words ] [ €5 ]

BEIJING
New Spy Satellite for Chinese Military
	The authorities in Beijing have confirmed the Chinese military's growing capacity to glean intelligence by optical satellite. China's general staff has just launched a second reconnaissance satellite designated Zi Yuan-2 (ZY-2) from the Tai Yuan space center. (...) [ 191 words ] [ €5 ]

DIPLOMACY
Anglicans Mobilize Against War
	The new Archbishop of Canterbury's positions look likely to embarrass Tony Blair. (...) [ 619 words ] [ €5 ]

LONDON
Will BAE Systems Get Over Bad Patch?
	According to Intelligence Online sources, the Indian government decided on Jan. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SANAA
Yemen the Last Bastion?
	According to estimates by Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence, roughly 39,000 Islamic militants who fought in Afghanistan are now living in Yemen. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LONDON
How Will Hakluyt Resolve its Problem?
	The British business intelligence firm Hakluyt is in a quandary about its relations with the gas company Ramaco. (...) [ 112 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

WASHINGTON, JANUARY 8
A full briefing on the state of information security
	The leading lights of cyber security in the U.S. were gathering on Jan. (...) [ 84 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WASHINGTON, JANUARY 13
Tom Ridge is gradually moving into his quarters
	The moving date for much of the equipment and furniture of the new Department of Homeland Security has been set for Jan. (...) [ 60 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LONDON, JANUARY 15
A seminar on air defense systems
	Within weeks or months of a probable military invention in Iraq a number of senior British and American officials are gathering to discuss changes in air defense technology. (...) [ 94 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS, FEBRUARY 27
Chambers of commerce are to mull business intelligence
	France's Assemblee des Chambres de Commerce et d'Industrie is organizing a seminar on Feb. (...) [ 85 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	WASHINGTON
	Lone Star Fights Back
		The Texas oil company Lone Star is getting a lot of help from lawyers and ex-intelligence operatives in its legal tussle with a Saudi Arabian group and Morocco. (...) [ 260 words ] [ €5 ]

	PARIS
	Business Intelligence: State of Play
		French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has commissioned a report on the state-of-play of business intelligence in France. To many it will be seen as the trade's first balance sheet. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

PARIS
Pierre Martinez Opens Consultancy
	The former security chief and vice-president of the French defense electronics firm Thales, Pierre Martinez, has opened a consultancy named MTZ Conseil on the Left Bank in Paris. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €5 ]

LONDON
Reuters Looks for Staff at Palace
	The British news agency Reuters has picked Queen Elizabeth's communications chief as its own PR boss. Aged 49, Simon Walker had been head of public relations at Buckingham Palace until he took over as corporate communications director at Reuters this month. (...) [ 109 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Poindexter's New Allies
	The prime promoter of a new global system to monitor information flows, John Poindexter, has chosen the consultants who are to assist him in implementing the project. (...) [ 150 words ] [ €5 ]

NEW YORK
CitiGroup Chooses its Government Lobbyist
	The New York headquarters of Citigroup succeeded in mid-December in hiring President George W. Bush's advisor for legislative issues. Nicholas Calio quit his job at the White House at the end of December to become Citigroup's senior vice president in charge of government affairs. (...) [ 64 words ] [ FREE ]

PARIS
EADS Frets Over Airbus' U.S. Consultant
	The management of the European aeronautics and defense group EADS, which holds an 80% stake in Airbus Industrie, voiced some concern over the consortium's recent choice of Sandy Berger's consultancy Stonebridge International as the firm's mouthpiece in Washington (IOL revealed the appointment in its last issue). (...) [ 227 words ] [ €5 ]

	Weak Signals
	Yves Bertrand, Kenneth Clark
		PARIS - THE PRESENT BOSS OF THE POLICE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RENSEIGNEMENTS GENERAUX, Yves Bertrand could be thinking of going over to the private sector. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

LONDON
Mike Holtzman
	The British public relations company Brown Lloyd James has received a $300,000 account from the US Qatar Business Council to promote business ties between the United States and the Persian Gulf emirate that has become so strategic of late. (...) [ 149 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
Jacques Fournet
	Former boss of both the DST and the French police intelligence agency Rensignements Generaux, Jacques Fournet, has become the leading lobbyist for the French pharmaceuticals company Pierre Fabre. (...) [ 224 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	WASHINGTON
	Got Your Cyber Security License?
		The Bush administration seems determined to regulate the information security business and bring it closer into the orbit of federal agencies. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

Influence Strategy

	MOHAMMED AL FAYED
	British Gunning for Al Fayed
		In ordering an inquiry into Mohammed Al Fayed's donations to welfare organizations, British intelligence seems bent on triggering the fall of the Egyptian tycoon. The effort has been underway since 2000. (...) [ 395 words ] [ €5 ]

Risk Assesment

	YEMEN
	Terrorism
		We believe the risk of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda is the highest of all in Yemen in view of the strong influence of the organization's networks there, particularly at the Al Iman university (see P. (...) [ 41 words ] [ FREE ]

	UNITED STATES
	Conflicts
		Even though U.S. military action appears likely in weeks to come - as we anticipated as early as last August - the operation could meet with stronger political opposition than expected in the U. (...) [ 176 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UKRAINE
	Financial Crime
		Kiev has received a sharply-worded warning from the European authorities to tighten its legislation against money-laundering. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €1,5 ]