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SPOTLIGHT

INTELLIGENCE

Can CIA Be Run Like a Private Company ?

Would the "best practices" of big private corporations triumph over the huge bureaucratic machine of an intelligence agency like the CIA? Unquestionably, the executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, believes they could. This week a working group from the not-for-profit association Business Executives for National Security (BENS) is to submit a report to him on the CIA's human resources policy. (...) [ 695 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

United States : A Counter-Weight to Military-Industrial Lobby ? [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

INTELLIGENCE
SAIC Recruiting Intelligence Pros
	The runaway rise in Washington's Homeland Security and counter-terrorism budgets has led to a surge in demand for intelligence experts. The SAIC group has launched a campaign to fill no less than 2,400 jobs. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €5 ]

DIPLOMACY
Syria Fears Saddam "Revelations"
	Tension is rising in Damascus as the U.S. continues to question Saddam Hussein in the basement of the international airport in Baghdad. The Syrians fear he could make embarrassing revelations. (...) [ 285 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

PARIS
Christian Breant
	Head of the Centre d'Analyse de Defense (CAD) at the French armaments board Delegation Generale pour l'Armement (DGA), Christian Breant has just been appointed director of the Service des Strategies Techniques et des Technologies Communes (STTC). (...) [ 213 words ] [ €1,5 ]

BAGHDAD
Ali Sistani
	Aged 74, ayatollah Ali Sistani, acknowleged as one of the four leading Shi'ite clerics, has become a major political force in Iraq. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €1,5 ]

WEAK SIGNALS
Manama - Top-Line Lawyers For Top Accord ?
	Bahrain has called on the Holland & Knight law firm to help it negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States. (...) [ 75 words ] [ €1,5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

WASHINGTON
Budget Cuts for Military Intelligence
	A major close-down of U.S. bases planned for 2005 will include the closure of intelligence units as well. This was recently confirmed by Phil Grone, principal assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for installations and environment. (...) [ 92 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
A Third Agency Falls Under President's Sway
	French president Jacques Chirac can now enjoy full control over France's intelligence agencies following the appointment of Pascal Mailhos as boss of the police intelligence service Renseignements Generaux (RG). (...) [ 323 words ] [ €5 ]

BEIJING
A Regional Anti-Terror Outfit
	The fight against radical Islam counts among the chief concerns of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that opened a regional center in a building in the Chaoyang neighborhood of Beijing on Jan. (...) [ 294 words ] [ €5 ]

DATA MINING
Counter-Terrorism a Front ?
	Can mathematics be used to press the fight against terrorism. Or would it be just a way to create huge intelligence-gathering systems with applications ranging from marketing to business intelligence and political control ? (...) [ 410 words ] [ €5 ]

TERRORISM
No Finding Before July?
	Tempers are rising concerning the forthcoming report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States that is chaired by the former Republican governor of New Jersey, Thomas Kean an ex Democrat representative from Indiana. (...) [ 641 words ] [ €5 ]

BOSTON
NSA and CIA Drop in on SCIP
	For the first time, the big annual conference of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) in Boston between March 22-25 will include a "government track. (...) [ 140 words ] [ €1,5 ]

KARACHI
How to Organize DCN's Security ?
	The arrival of a new security chief at the French warship constructor Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), retired navy captain Marc de Rodellec, seems to cast some uncertainty over a contract awarded to the firm Securite Sans Frontieres (SSF) to see to the safety and security of 15 French engineers currently based in Karachi to supervise the construction of a French Agosta-90 submarine. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

PARIS
A Very Mysterious Theft
	Spending a few days in Paris in mid-January, the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska fell victim to a curious incident at the bar of the Hotel George V where he was staying. (...) [ 144 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

WASHINGTON, FEB. 24-26
What Relationship Between Homeland Security and Homeland Defense ?
	Whether from the public or private sector, the leading American authorities on "Homeland Security" will be on hand for a conference organized by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) between Feb. (...) [ 144 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DUBAI, FEB. 24-25
Islamic Hedge Funds
	Out of the $2 trillion that Middle East residents invest across the globe only a very small amount is placed in hedge funds. (...) [ 105 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LONDON, APRIL 20-23
Anti-Fraud Training Courses
	The specialized organization IIR Financial Training is organizing two training sessions on fraud - one will complement the other -in London in April. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	PARIS
	Big Groups Take to BI
		After hesitating and testing the water for years, several big French companies are finally going to open fully-fledged business intelligence departments in 2004. (...) [ 260 words ] [ €5 ]

	WASHINGTON
	Money and the Means for FinCEN
		As a result of the Patriot Act in 2001, the U.S. anti-laundering agency FinCEN will see its authority soon extend to the loans and real estate fields after including insurance companies and brokerages in its brief. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

WASHINGTON
Airscan in Iraq
	The highly discreet firm Airscan, one of the rare private operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world, has won a $10 million, two-year contract to keep an eye on the two main pipelines in Iraq, Kirkuk-Amman and Kirkuk-Ceyhan. (...) [ 238 words ] [ €5 ]

BEIJING
Kroll Builds up China Business
	After focussing for years on Western groups operating in China, Kroll is now looking at working for Chinese companies. The firm's Beijing office, headed by Samuel Porteous, former member of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and a specialist in organized crime, has forged an alliance with New York Global Securities (NYGS). (...) [ 175 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
CompTIA Pushes its Case
	Thomas Santianello, manager for public policy at the American computer industry's powerful public relations group, Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), has just written to senator Susan Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Government Affairs Committee, to call for stronger government action on questions of information systems security. (...) [ 250 words ] [ €5 ]

	NEGOCIATIONS
	Brussels - EU Cracking Down On Organized Crime ?
		Ireland is making a major push to ensure that legislation it drafted in 1996 against organized crime be applied at the European level. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €1,5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

WASHINGTON
Billy Tauzin
	Representative from Louisiana in Congress for the past 20 years and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee since 2001, Billy Tauzin plans to quit politics later this spring. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €1,5 ]

LONDON
Christopher Davy
	Risk Analysis, a small firm founded five years ago by Christopher Davy, a former MI5 officer, got a lot of unexpected publicity in mid-January when the Sunday Times revealed it had been hired by Tony Blair's cabinet to locate the origin of several leaks to the press. (...) [ 199 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	LOBBYING
	Private Olympic Diplomacy
		Cities that want to host the Olympic Games used to rely on official entities to promote their cause. Now, however, they are turning to the business world to find experts - even foreign ones - to vaunt their merits. (...) [ 394 words ] [ €5 ]

Influence Strategy

	WASHINGTON
	Menatep's Bi-Partisan Approach
		Set up before Mikhail Khodorkovsky boss of Yukos and founder of the Menatep bank, was jailed, Menatep's lobbying network in North Africa has since proved to be useful in the trial of strength with the Kremlin. (...) [ 359 words ] [ €5 ]

Risk Assesment

	GUERRILA WARFARE
	"Sunni triangle"
		According to diplomatic sources in Jordan and Kuwait, Syrian military intelligence is still playing a major role in guerrilla attacks on American forces and their allies in the "Sunni triangle" around Baghdad. (...) [ 76 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	PROLIFERATION
	Official visits
		In paying an official visit to France between Jan. 14-16, Hassan Ruhani, secretary-general of Iran's Higher Security Council, insisted that his sojourn take place shortly before a trip to Washington by French defense minister Michele Alliot-Marie the same week. (...) [ 155 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	MONEY LAUNDERING
	Oskar Holenweger
		Behind bars since December, Oskar Holenweger, owner and former director of the private bank Tempus in Zurich, was released this week but still remains charged with money-laundering. (...) [ 70 words ] [ €1,5 ]