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SPOTLIGHT

SECURITY

Europe Imports Homeland Security

Invented and implemented in the United States, the concept of Homeland Security has begun to gain ground in Europe. The European Commission is poised to kick off a huge research project on the subject that will involve member governments and leading companies in the security field. (...) [ 712 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Europe : The Experts Looking Out for Europe's Security [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

INTELLIGENCE
Interoperable Soldiers and Civilians
	In what could be viewed as both a technological and political revolution, defense and internal security systems will shortly become interoperable in the United States as well between the U.S. and its allies. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

TERRORISM
The War in Saudi Arabia
	The target of several assassination attempts, general Abdelaziz al Huweirini, number three man in Saudi Arabia's interior ministry, has clearly become the priority target of Islamic terrorists. (...) [ 267 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

TEHRAN
Hassan Ruhani
	The secretary-general of Iran's Supreme Security Council, mullah Hassan Ruhani, is definitely the up-and-coming man in Tehran. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BEIJING
Zhou Yongkang
	Chinese public security (Gonganbu) minister, 61-year-old Zhou Yongkang, who last week conferred with his visiting French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, has marked a major break with the past on the question of organized crime and immigration problems. (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

NEGOCIATIONS
Paris - Defence attaché jobs on line
	A good third of the defence attaches that work at 101 French diplomatic posts across the world could lose their jobs. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

PYONGYANG
Chinese Pushing for Change in North Korea
	Sources at Japan's counter-intelligence service Public Security Investigation Agency (Koancho) claimed last week that North Korean leader Kim Jong il has been ? (...) [ 406 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
All Sweetness and Light at DGSE
	After long months of turf battles at the top at DGSE, French president Jacques Chirac has laid down the line: (...) [ 338 words ] [ €5 ]

MASSIVE DATA
Taking Up the TIA Torch
	The defunct Total Information Awareness (TIA) promoted by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) seems to keep popping up in new forms. Now we have HSARPA. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €5 ]

DIPLOMACY
The Unofficial Paris-Tripoli Channel
	An inquiry by Intelligence Online shows how secret negotiations conducted on the sidelines of official channels helped bring about an agreement signed in Paris on Jan. 9 to compensate families of victims of the DC10 airliner operated by UTA. (...) [ 692 words ] [ €5 ]

Agenda

LONDON, MARCH 19-21
Chemical and Biological Threats
	Wilton Park Conferences is organizing a conference on chemical and biological terrorism in Steyning, West Sussex between March 19-21 at which numerous experts will speak. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LONDON, FEB. 9-10
Interoperability Once Again
	The SMI company is organizing a conference in London on Feb. (...) [ 127 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LISBON, FEB. 16-17
Financiers Look at Business Intelligence
	The FCIB association that speaks for companies operating in the international financial, loans and marketing trades is organizing a conference in Lisbon on Feb. (...) [ 100 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	WEAK SIGNALS
	Moscow - BP "Black report" on TNK
		A lot of covetous eyes are now trained on a "black report" that BP drew up in 1999 on TNK at a time it was competing furiously with the Russian company for control of Shernogorneft. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	PARIS
	A French Advocacy Center
		In personally signing a decree appointing Alain Juillet as "senior official in charge of business intelligence," French president Jacques Chirac unquestionably sent out a strong signal: that Juillet is backed to the hilt by the Elysees Palace. (...) [ 406 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

PARIS
Olivier Darrason Next Boss of DGA?
	A former legislator and now chief of the business intelligence firm CEIS, Olivier Darrason, is due to submit a report to French defense minister Michele Alliot-Marie by the end of January on changes he recommends for the French armaments board Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA). (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

LONDON
Control Risks in Maritime Security Move
	A few months after setting up its own maritime security division, Control Risks Group has just joined forces with Port Maritime Security International (PMSI) an affiliate of Eurotunnel, to provide training in maritime security. (...) [ 161 words ] [ €5 ]

BRUSSELS
Vivendi Lobbies Euro Parliament
	European legislators are going to vote in plenary session next month on the latest directive against piracy and counterfeiting (directive 2003/46) that makes it a criminal offence to not only sell counterfeit goods but also to use them. (...) [ 123 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
ART Wants to Measure P2P
	With the European Union copyright directive on protecting intellectual property currently being written into French law, France's Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications (ART) has awarded the 4icom company a contract to examine ? (...) [ 163 words ] [ €5 ]

	SAN DIEGO
	Privatizing U.S. Military Aid to Georgia
		The future seems rosy for the Cubic firm in San Diego, California. A reporter for the British daily The Guardian in Tbilissi has just revealed it has won a $15 million contract from the Pentagon to train Georgia's army. (...) [ 114 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

WASHINGTON
Bradley Buckles
	After spending his entire career with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), Bradley Buckles has been taken on by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with a mandate to run its anti-piracy department. (...) [ 162 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
Michel Lenez
	Air France has named Michel Lenez, a senior executive of Britair, an Air France affiliate based in Morlaix in Britanny, as head of its business and competitive intelligence unit in succession to Fabien Pelous, who left at the end of 2003. (...) [ 200 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	WASHINGTON
	Integrating the Data Bases
		Between now and the end of May, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will choose a winner among three companies vying for the contract to integrate the 27 biographic data bases (crime and terrorism) and the bio-metric data base needed to ensure the effectiveness of the US VISIT program that began in early January (P. (...) [ 117 words ] [ €5 ]

	BRUSSELS
	Softer Fines for Cement Cartel
		European cement manufacturers found guilty of forming a cartel can breathe a sigh of relief. In early January, the European Court of Justice reduced a fine imposed on them by the European Commission in November, 1994 from 87 million euros to 53 million. (...) [ 133 words ] [ €5 ]

	PARIS
	The Politics Behind the Business
		A political stand-off between Jacques Chirac and his interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has presidential ambitions, has given rise to a tug-of-war over a big export contract as well. (...) [ 231 words ] [ €5 ]

	IRAQ
	Fresh Contracting System
		The Pentagon has stopped managing contracts in Iraq and handed the job over to the US Army as a prelude to easing conditions that companies must fulfil to win work. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €5 ]

Influence Strategy

	RIYADH
	Torn Between Democracy and Jihad
		Saudi Arabia is facing the agonising question of how to fight anti-government fundamentalism riding increasingly in the country on the coat-tails of al Qaeda. Can Riyadh introduce reforms without provoking challenges to its rule? (...) [ 438 words ] [ €5 ]

Risk Assesment

	TADJIKISTAN
	Soviet republics are joining big international institutions
		Little by little the former Soviet republics are joining big international institutions. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	EUROPEAN UNION
	war on ?red paper that stifles creativity?
		The European commissioner in charge of the internal market, Frits Bolkestein has decided to declare war on ? (...) [ 138 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Defense Information Systems Agency
		Some 100 Defense Department facilities will soon be linked together by a 10 gigabits/second optical fiber network. (...) [ 67 words ] [ €1,5 ]