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SPOTLIGHT

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Exclusive: The Top 20 French Firms

Intelligence Online has drawn up a list of the 20 leading French companies on the domestic business intelligence market. French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's center-right government wants to promote synergy within the administration to put effective business intelligence solutions at the disposal of French industry. (...) [ 682 words ] [ €8 ]

Political Intelligence

SECURITY
A French Adventurer's Saga
	France's old cloak-and-dagger operatives are being put out to pasture as private military companies flourish in the midst of conflict and security firms move onto the legal mercenary market. (...) [ 560 words ] [ €5 ]

NEGOCIATIONS
Charles Pasqua drops in on interior ministry
	Will the arms-sales-to-Angola case known in France as Angolagate ever end up in court? (...) [ 146 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

LONDON
David Pepper
	A physicist by training, 55-year-old David Pepper will shortly take over from Francis Richard as head of the British signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). (...) [ 222 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WASHINGTON
Tom McDermott
	The former deputy director for information system security at the National Security Agency, Tom McDermott, has taken a job with the firm Scientific and Engineering Inc. (...) [ 166 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DIPLOMACY
Yemen Makes Sure of its Army
	Despite a lot of strong fundamentalist feelings in the country, Yemeni president Saleh has managed to tighten his grip on the army, his power base. (...) [ 312 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

PARIS
Quarrel in Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office
	A refusal by France's Conseil Superieur de la Magistrature (CSM) last week to endorse the appointment of a fifth investigating magistrate for anti-terrorism affairs was a setback for the justice ministry. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
NATO Could Deploy Eastwards
	On the advice of U.S. deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the new NATO commander in Europe, gen. James Jones, has sent a discreet message to Berlin. (...) [ 64 words ] [ FREE ]

LONDON
What They Found at Finsbury Park
	A raid on the Finsbury Park mosque in London by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and MI5 pulled in an interesting haul. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €5 ]

SWITZERLAND
Switzerland
	Baud's Transparency is Contagious (...) [ 265 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Poindexter Shuns Files
	Admiral John Poindexter, head of DARPA's Information Awareness Office, apparently learned a lesson from his conviction for obstruction of justice in the Iran-Contra affair. (...) [ 50 words ] [ FREE ]

DEFENSE
Operations Start in Iraq
	U.S. special forces are already operating in northern Iraq to pave the way for the arrival of the American forces. Working in league with the Turkish military, they are attempting to undermine the Iraqi regime's defense system. (...) [ 557 words ] [ €5 ]

NEW YORK
Will Intelligence Agencies Start Enforcing International Law?
	Apart from its political impact on the Iraqi crisis, U.S. (...) [ 180 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ANKARA
A Hitch in the Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Project?
	Early this week, the son of Azerbaijan's president, Natiq Aliev, who also runs the national oil company SOCAR, came out with reassuring words on the timetable for the construction of the Baku-Tbilissi-Ceyham oil pipeline. (...) [ 218 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19
London: Domestic Security
	On Feb. 19-20 most of the leading figures involved in domestic security, such as defined in Washington's Homeland Security Policy, will gather in London. (...) [ 109 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12
Paris: Terrorism's Bankers
	The French parliament will examine the role international organizations play in the fight against bankrollers of terrorism. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

THURSDAY, APRIL 10
London: Ethical Questions
	A major meeting will be held in London at the initiative of the Ethical Corporation, an organization in contact with several companies that attempt to adopt standards of corporate social responsibility. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	EUROPE
	Berlin & Athens: a Bumpy Road
		The German land armaments group Krauss-Maffei Wegmann enjoyed a good year in 2002 because of revenue generated by a major contract with Greece. But a lot of unpleasant surprises may spring from the contract this year. (...) [ 511 words ] [ €5 ]

	WEAK SIGNALS
	Accountancy market to flourish
		Firms that promote clean book-keeping look set to enjoy a profitable future in Europe. (...) [ 100 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FIRMS

PARIS
Circe Finds New Owner
	The French investigative and business intelligence company Circe has been acquired by Compagnie de Conseils Saint Honore. The financial group bought it for its affiliate i2F. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €5 ]

INTERNATIONAL
IOSCO Will Decide on Standards
	The forthcoming annual conference of the International Organization of Securities Committees (IOSCO) will hand down its verdict on international accounting standards. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Bigger Budget for Beers
	The U.S. State Department's undersecretary in charge of public diplomacy, Charlotte Beers, looks set to obtain the money she claims to need to do her job properly. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €5 ]

MUNICH
Rating Corporate Responsibility
	The German rating firm Oekom Research has established a first system to assess the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of big multi-national groups. (...) [ 84 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Hill and Knowlton Back Vietnam
	How times change. One of the lobbying firms that employs the biggest number of former U.S. government officials, Hill and Knowlton, has become the mouthpiece of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €5 ]

BOSTON
The Rendon Group's generosity
	The lobbying concern most involved in projecting the Pentagon's views concerning a possible military intervention in Iraq, The Rendon Group, also appears to have a generous side. (...) [ 76 words ] [ FREE ]

	PARIS
	Smoking Out Tobacco Lobby
		The tobacco lobby has a lot of clout with France's finance ministry. A book coming out this month describes how it operates. (...) [ 397 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

WASHINGTON
Sandy Kress
	One of the most influential American business groups, Business Roundtable, has just employed the services of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €1,5 ]

NEW YORK
Frank Holder
	Kroll Worldwide has brought some fresh talent into its senior executive team. (...) [ 254 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Influence Strategy

	MOSCOW>OLIGARCHS
	The New Men Beholden to Moscow
		Over the past four years Russian president Vladimir Putin has rather ostentatiously laid a generation of oligarchs to rest. But a new group of businessmen beholden to the government has sprung up in the Kremlin's shadow. (...) [ 442 words ] [ €5 ]