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SPOTLIGHT

TAX EVASION

Yukos' Web of Offshore Companies

In the wake of last weekend's arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, boss of the Russian oil group Yukos, police and Russian interior ministry (MVD) investigators are continuing to unravel the mechanism that enabled the oligarch to win control of the firm in the 1990s. (...) [ 752 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Influence Strategy : How SAIC Extends its Influence in Iraq [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

STRATEGY
The Real Saudi-Pakistani Pact
	A number of major agreements were struck during the first-ever visit of Saudi crown prince Abdallah to Pakistan on Oct. 18-19. (...) [ 259 words ] [ €5 ]

TERRORISM
Saddam's Stay Behind Network
	Iraq's current leaders are now convinced Saddam Hussein began organizing underground networks capable of resisting an American occupation at least a year before he was toppled. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

BAGHDAD
Nouri al Badran
	Iraqi interior minister Nouri al Badran is very much on the front line of the fight against attacks in Iraq. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
Pierre Steinmetz
	Chief-of-staff to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin until the latter decided to re-shuffle his team on Oct. (...) [ 216 words ] [ €1,5 ]

NEGOCIATIONS
Nuclear Show
	U.S. energy secretary Spencer Abraham and Russia's atomic energy minister, Aleksandr Rumyantsev, are to take part in an exceptional conference in Philadelphia on Nov. (...) [ 65 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

WASHINGTON
Dick Cheyney's Anti-Syrian Hawk
	Last September's appointment of David Wurmser as U.S. vice president Dick Cheney's adviser on the Middle East didn't arouse much interest at the time. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
The Pentagon's Truth Blackout
	The U.S. defense department has taken increasingly to censuring the U.S. military's publications or even entire sections of its web sites. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

BONN
Suspicions about a Saudi School in Bonn
	Germany's Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) has been keeping the King Fahd Academy in Bonn under tight surveillance for several months. It had been planned that the secondary education establishment which has dispensed courses to 500 students since 1995 - and which houses a mosque with seating for 700 worshipers - would close its doors when the academic year began in September. (...) [ 152 words ] [ €5 ]

INTELLIGENCE
Sweeping Audit for DGSE
	With its budget due to fall by 5% in 2004 - unlike those of its Western counterparts - the DGSE is in the midst of a major shake-up and is examining its overseas operations and goals. (...) [ 437 words ] [ €5 ]

PROLIFERATION
North Korean Outpost in Vienna
	Ever since 1997 the Austrian security services have been stating in annual reports the Vienna-based Golden Star Bank serves as a front for various covert operations by the North Korean government, and primarily funding of its nuclear program. (...) [ 589 words ] [ €5 ]

MANAMA
Islamic Investment on London Stock Exchange
	For the first time, an Arab bank is offering an Islamic mutual fund made up of shares from between 30 and 50 companies quoted on the London stock exchange and which are seen as complying with Sharia law. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

MARINA DEL REY
Revolutionary Development in Automatic Translation?
	The CIA's investment fund In-Q-Tel has just found a new technological gem - Language Weaver. (...) [ 117 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
A Fund for Security Technology?
	In a report on the French intelligence community's budget (P. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

NOORDWIJK, NOV. 24-26
European Space Encounter
	Leading figures in Europe's space industry are to meet in the Netherlands between Nov. (...) [ 114 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS, NOV. 24-25
How Speech Can Replace Text
	Language technologies and voice recognition are making fast headway on the commercial front. (...) [ 128 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BRUSSELS, NOV. 17-19
Strategies for the Caspian Sea's Gas
	A ?Caspian Gas - Strategies for Development? conference will be held in Brussels on Nov. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	BRUSSELS
	Scramble for Galileo Concession
		On Oct. 20 the so-named Galileo joint undertaking began the process of selecting a consortium to run the European satellite navigation system. (...) [ 198 words ] [ €5 ]

	MOSCOW
	Euro Gains Favor in Russia
		The much-mooted Paris-Berlin-Moscow link isn't only political in nature. It's now becoming an economic reality and president Vladimir Putin seems only too happy about that. (...) [ 259 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

PARIS-BUENOS AIRES
New Investigation into Thales ?
	Two investigators from the anti-corruption division of Argentina's justice ministry were received on Oct. 24 at the French justice ministry at the place Vendome in Paris. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €5 ]

NEW YORK
Giuliani Puts his Stamp on Security Goods
	Former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani is making increasing use of his name as a brand to sell sophisticated security goods. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS-RIYADH
Geos Seeks to Build Up Saudi Business
	The French security and business intelligence outfit Geos has just beefed up its presence in Riyadh by naming retired general Philippe Gouachon to run an office in the Saudi capital. (...) [ 239 words ] [ €5 ]

	WEAK SIGNALS
	Contracts still valid
		Russia's Lukoil, which was awarded exploration rights on the huge Iraqi oil field of West Qurna in 1997, is currently negotiating a $600 million program to develop the acreage with the U. (...) [ 83 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

WASHINGTON
Barbara McNamara
	After a 40 year career, one of the prime figures of the National Security Agency (NSA), Barbara McNamara has left government service to work for CACI International, a company headed by J. (...) [ 200 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
Xavier Delacroix
	Head of First&42nd, the consultancy arm of the Edelman Group, Xavier Delacroix published a brief essay entitled ? (...) [ 187 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	LONDON
	EADS in Military Offensive
		A contract landed by EADS in London last week pushed the company's order book for military goods to EUR 45 billion ($52.6 billion) - a cool seven times more than its military revenue in 2002. (...) [ 432 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Influence Strategy

	MOSCOW
	Yukos and its Showcase Board
		How to pick a board of directors for a big corporation anxious to present itself to the stock exchange, media and political leaders as a model of transparency and good governance? (...) [ 406 words ] [ €5 ]

Risk Assesment

	AFGHANISTAN
	Terrorism
		President Hamid Karzal whose powers don't seem to stretch much beyond the suburbs of Kabul prefers to blind himself to reality rather than confront it. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	TAIWAN
	Proliferation
		The Taiwan government declined to comment on a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily that the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology had tested a missile with a range of between 600 and 900 kms for the first time in late September. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Money Laundering
		Citing the USA Patriot Act, the American government has set up a unit in Miami to fight against money laundering by politicians in six Latin American countries. (...) [ 42 words ] [ FREE ]