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SPOTLIGHT

Identification

Smart Card World's New Security Champion

Starting from next year, smart cards are going to revolutionize biometric identification. The biggest market will be the United States, which sets the spur to the security sector. But the know-how exists essentially in Europe, and notably in France where an international fair entitled "Cartes 2004" opened its doors this week. (...) [ 714 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

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Political Intelligence

Terrorism
Swiss Security Stumbles Again
	The lack of coordination between Swiss intelligence and security agencies was once again glaringly obvious in the case of Mohamed Achraf. (...) [ 274 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
Family Rivalry in Syria
	Syrian president Bachar Assad forced through the appointment of gen. Ghazi Kanaan as interior minister last month despite furious opposition from the powerful military security boss, gen. Assef Shawkat. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Riyadh
Saud Hamoud al Otaibi
	The Saudi Institute in Washington which identified Saud Hamoud al Otaibi on Nov. (...) [ 177 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Beijing
Luo Yudong
	Chinese tradition has it that the general who commands the military intelligence service Qingbaobu is always promoted deputy chief of staff of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) in charge of intelligence. (...) [ 231 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Defense
Thales to lose MIKSA Contract?
	Thales seems increasingly unlikely to land a contract worth seven billion euros to supply a border surveillance system to Saudi Arabia. (...) [ 431 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Paris
DGSE Staff Levels Unchanged
	The staff at France's foreign intelligence agency DGSE this year numbers exactly 3,287 civilians and 1,458 military personnel. The number will rise by just 21 civilian staff in 2005, or less than 0. (...) [ 271 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
Chinese Report on Japanese A-Bomb
	China's military intelligence agency Qingbaobu appears persuaded that the Japanese possess an atomic bomb in kit form. That emerged from a semi-confidential report drafted by Wen Desheng, a researcher at the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament (CPAPD), an organization that answers to Chinese military intelligence despite its name. (...) [ 341 words ] [ €5 ]

Kabul
Special Forces Report
	Two soldiers from a U.S. National Guard special forces unit who served in Afghanistan between May and October, 2002 have published a book entitled "Sur les Traces d'Al Qaida" in which they describe the poor planning and performance of U. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
Purge Looming at CIA?
	According to the Knight Ridder press group, the new CIA boss, Porter Goss, is preparing a purge of the agency's Directorate of Operations in the wake of George W. Bush's re-election. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
Taking Stock of Reforms at RG
	Six months after interior minister Dominique de Villepin launched a program to modernize the police intelligence agency Renseignement Generaux (RG), the agency's boss, Pascal Mailhos, is to convene a meeting to look at the initial results. (...) [ 311 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

BIOMETRY - Free Tools For Fingerprints

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LOOKING AHEAD

Baghdad - Washington Drops Talabani

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PARIS - New PKI for Defense Ministry

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ABU DHABI - New President Will Look Eastwards

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Baghdad
	Maneuvers on Iraq's Debt
		Vulture funds, bankers, lawyers and oil companies are all looking forward to a first meeting of Iraq's creditors at the Paris Club in mid-November. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Arbitration and Conflicts of Interest
		The increasing use of private arbitration panels to settle corporate disputes is by no means a cure-all because the arbiters themselves can be accused of conflicts of interest. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

PARIS
Edelman Puts Together the Pieces
	Since last week, SCH, a small Paris-based lobbying concern headed by the ex vice president of Framatome, Christian Marmain, officially belongs to Edelman. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €5 ]

NEW YORK
Cherkasky Has Board Looking Over His Shoulder
	Named CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) last week in succession to Jeffrey Greenberg, Michael Cherkasky, former boss of Kroll, will take on the formidable task of negotiating with New York district attorney Elliot Spitzer who filed suit against the group for bid rigging and price fixing. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Kissinger Fleshes Out Network
	Already a partner of the Covington & Burling law firm, Kissinger & Associates, the firm founded by Henry Kissinger, has just forged another alliance, this time with the lobbying concern APCO. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
DCN's New Security Boss
	Retired naval commander Marc de Rodellec, who was put in charge of security at French warship builder Directions des Constructions Navales (DCN) early this year, will shortly be leaving the post created in the wake of a bomb attack against DCN engineers in Karachi in May, 2002 that claimed 14 lives. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Total, Pasqua and Iraq
		An investigation by French examining magistrate Philippe Courroye concerning Total's payments of commission in Iraq and Russia is expected to show how it sold oil awarded by Baghdad to former interior minister Charles Pasqua. (...) [ 269 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Toulouse
Philippe Lafrandre
	After months of head-hunting and hesitation (IOL 48), Airbus Industrie has finally found its new security director. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Miami
Alberto de la Portilla
	A veteran investigator, Alberto de la Portilla, has been named managing director of the Miami/Latin American bureau of IPSA International which specializes in the fight against money-laundering. (...) [ 203 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Brussels
	Key Contract for Steria
		The French firm Steria which designed the European fingerprint data bank, Eurodac, has just won a contract to supply a new information system for the Schengen area. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Politics Intrude in BI Arena
		While big French corporations discreetly build business intelligence units and investigative companies find themselves doing a roaring trade, the French government's effort in the area has fallen victim to internal bickering. (...) [ 316 words ] [ €5 ]