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SPOTLIGHT

Intelligence

The American Way of "Connecting the Dots"

The new priority of the U.S. intelligence community since Sept. 11, 2001 is "connecting the dots." That, at any rate, is the basic premise of a 155-page study the Rand Corporation has just published under the title: "Out of the Ordinary, Finding Hidden Threats by Analyzing Unusual Behaviour. (...) [ 685 words ] [ €8 ]

Political Intelligence

Defectors
CIA Embarrasses Japan
	In the past year the CIA has managed to organize the defection of members of North Korea's nomenclatura, often from Japan. That has embarrassed Tokyo because the prime minister is negotiating anew with Kim Jong-il. (...) [ 384 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
The Secrets of Helios-2
	France, Spain and Belgium will launch the second-generation military observation satellite on Dec. 10. It will be accompanied by four French ESSAIM demonstrator satellites destined to pave the way for a future signals intelligence program. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Tripoli
Bashir Salah
	The all-powerful chief of staff to Muammar Khadafi, Bashir Salah, has reportedly been sidelined in recent weeks. (...) [ 241 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran
Hessam Hashemi
	Named intelligence chief for the Iranian armed forces on Oct. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

electronic warfare
New Saudi Contract for SAIC
	A leading supplier of the Saudi Arabian Navy since 1980, SAIC has just won a new C4I contract from Riyadh. (...) [ 109 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

WASHINGTON
NGO On Top of Information Flows
	Since the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) was transformed a year ago into the National Geospatiale Agency (NGA) the new entity has been seeking to organize U. (...) [ 251 words ] [ €5 ]

BERLIN
BND Caught Up in Kosovo Scandal
	Heads are likely to roll at the German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) because of a scandal over its recruitment of members of the Kosovo Liberation Organization (ex UCK). (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]

WASHINGTON
Recruiting Drive at CIA
	In a memo to Porter Goss, president George W. Bush gave the new CIA director 90 days to prepare and present a precise plan to bolster the agency's analytical capacity. (...) [ 118 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
Trading Weapons for Intelligence
	Announced on Nov. 20, the lifting of the U.S. embargo on arms sales to Pakistan was preceded by a house-cleaning at the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €5 ]

guerilla warfare
Iraqi Ba'ath Regroups in Aleppo
	The hardcore of Iraq's Ba'ath party, which has banded together in a "High Resistance Command," has held several secret meetings in Aleppo, Syria in recent weeks. (...) [ 325 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence

In-Q-Tel firms at Core of ASAP System

The major presence of firms "coddled" by In-Q-Tel in the architecture of the Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing (ASAP) system could demonstrate the logic behind the CIA's investment policy. (...)
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SIGNPOSTS

ARMAMENTS - Who's Talking About Bribes?

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LOOKING AHEAD

Baghdad - New Guerilla Tactics

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Paris - Audits a Political Hot Potato

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Brussels - Part-Time Commissioner

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Rome
	Kroll Fights Back from Tight Corner
		After operating at length against Telecom Italia, one of Italy's biggest group, Kroll has found new favor in the country by investigating Parmalat's collapse. (...) [ 470 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	How Boeing Wins Influence
		Senator John McCain's inquiry into the tanker aircraft contract awarded to Boeing has shed light on how the U.S. group seeks to gain influence in Washington. (...) [ 302 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

London
Risk Advisory Group Changes Hands
	Reported by Intelligence Online in October (IOL 486), the buy-out of The Risk Advisory Group (TRAG) by its management took place in November. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
SOFEMA Poised to Buy SSF
	What started as a partnership agreement in July between SOFEMA, a French armaments agency that specializes in aeronautics equipment, and the firm Securite Sans Frontieres (SSF), is in the process of becoming a buyout of the latter by the former. (...) [ 331 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
New Lobbying Concern
	Jean-Christophe Adler has left the firm Communication & Institutions, a lobbying concern headed by Olivier Le Picard, to launch a new public relations company of his own, Affaires Publiques Consultant. (...) [ 103 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Deploying "Territorial Intellligence"
		All of France's regions will be expected by the end of next year to have formed strategic committees to draft "territorial intelligence" programs. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
David Bates
	Close to George Bush Sr., David Bates has been named the Italian aeronautics and defense group Finmeccanica's new lobbyist in the United States. (...) [ 227 words ] [ €1,5 ]

London
Michael Oatley
	Accused late last month by the Daily Mail of being in contact with the organizers of an abortive putsch in Equatorial Guinea in March (the newspaper later retracted the story), Michael Oatley, a former director of Kroll in London, remains active in business investigations. (...) [ 165 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Baghdad
	French in Good Position for Oil Deal
		Two French groups are strongly in the running for important contracts to assess the reserves of the Kirkuk and Rumaila oil fields. (...) [ 223 words ] [ €5 ]

	London
	Easing Anti-Corruption Rules
		A lobbying campaign by several big corporations has forced Britain's export credit guarantee agency to change its anti-corruption rules. (...) [ 190 words ] [ €5 ]