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SPOTLIGHT

economic intelligence

China's MOFCOM Out to Conquer World

Taking Japan's famous MITI as its example, China's ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation (MOFTEC), which was beefed up and re-named MOFCOM (Shangwubu: ministry of commerce) in late 2002, can boast some of the world's top economic intelligence-gathering units. (...) [ 640 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

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Political Intelligence

international finance
Rappaport Goes into Retirement
	Often suspected but never found guilty, the Swiss-Israeli financier Bruce Rappaport, now in his 80s, is in the process of selling his financial establishment in Switzerland to Israel's Hapoalim bank. (...) [ 259 words ] [ €5 ]

Intelligence
Big Hurrah for DGSE
	The release of French hostages in Iraq was a major coup for France's DGSE and showed it had learned how to work effectively with the French foreign ministry. (...) [ 207 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
John Kringen
	As had been expected for some days, CIA director Porter Goss named John Kringen as deputy director of intelligence on Jan. (...) [ 149 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Amman
M. Majid Al Aytan
	Named the new chief of Jordan's Public Security Department (PSD) by king Abdallah on Dec. (...) [ 267 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Intelligence
Iran's Nuclear Counter-Spy Bid
	Iran has just formed a new counter-espionage agency designed specifically to protect its nuclear program from outside interference. (...) [ 374 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Washington
Banks Accused of Financing Terror
	Several big international banks could face trial in the United States in coming months on accusations of funding terrorism.. Lawyer Ron Motley, who has launched proceedings against several Saudi Arabian princes on behalf of families of victims of the Sept. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €5 ]

Riyadh
Prince Nayef in Terrorists' Gunsights
	The car bomb attacks in Riyadh on Dec. 29 were aimed personally at the number two man in Saudi Arabia's interior ministry, prince Mohamed bin Nayef (the minister's son) and the head of the country's anti-terrorist unit, gen. (...) [ 371 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
A Whale of a Story from the Whale
	The French intelligence community will obviously have fun reading a roman a clef published by gen. Jean Guyaux, nicknamed La Baleine (the Whale), former scientific adviser to the director of the domestic intelligence agency DST. (...) [ 219 words ] [ €5 ]

Geointelligence
Merging "Eyes" and "Ears"
	American intelligence's "eyes" represented by NGA and "ears" by NSA are finally going to work together - the directors of the two agencies signed a landmark "horizontal integration" agreement on Dec. 27. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

Sigint
Four Small French "Ears"
	When France launched its new Helios 2A military observation satellite on Dec. 18 (IOL 489) it also put four tiny SIGINT satellites forming the Essaim demonstrator into orbit. (...) [ 286 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

Money Laundering - Yakuzas Move To Switzerland

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LOOKING AHEAD

Geneva - Iraq's Interim Election

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Washington - Options for the Moslem World

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Paris - What Strategic Funds?

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Paris
	Only Half a Loaf for Forgeard
		No sooner had Arnaud Lagardere announced his appointment as future co-chairman of EADS than Noel Forgeard strongly marked his territory. (...) [ 263 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	Iraq a Fraudster's Paradise?
		A court case will shortly establish a precedent on whether firms paid out of Iraqi oil revenue are subject to American law. (...) [ 203 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

HOUSTON
Baker Botts Stands Up for Gazprom
	The Baker Botts law firm founded by James Baker, former secretary of state during George Bush Sr.'s presidency, is advising Gazprom in the saga concerning the acquisition of Yukos' assets. (...) [ 172 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
SOFEMA Buys Rothschild Unit
	Lengthy negotiations between the French armaments agency SOFEMA and Assurances & Conseils Saint Honore (ACSH, an affiliate of LFC Rothschild) came to a head on Dec. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €5 ]

BAGHDAD
Erinys Contract Runs Out
	Awarded in August, 2003, a contract to the British firm Erinys International to protect Iraqi oil infrastructure expired on Dec. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €5 ]

NEW YORK
Taking Cue from MMC
	Charged with bid rigging by New York prosecutor Eliot Spitzer, several financial services companies have copied the example of Marsh McLennan (MMC) which appointed Michael Cherkasky, CEO of Kroll and a former official in the Manhattan district attorney's office, as head of the Marsh brokerage. (...) [ 163 words ] [ €5 ]

PARIS
Right of Reply
	In response to an article in the last issue of Intelligence Online concerning a conflict pitting Mohamed Ajroudi against legislator Alain Marsaud and the businessman Alexandre Djouri regarding the sale of shares in Veolia held by Vivendi, Michel Calzaroni, boss of the DGM Conseil communications firm, wrote to us: (...) [ 109 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	Pushing on the Gas Pedal
		Deemed strategic by Washington and a potential source of big profits for the oil and gas industry, liquefied natural gas (LNG) has nonetheless encountered resistance in the U.S. because of security issues. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Brussels
Stephane Desselas
	Head of the Athenora lobbying concern, Stephane Desselas has just set up a Groupe des Nouveaux Lobbyistes, an association of PR staff who deal with the European Commission on behalf of big French corporations. (...) [ 222 words ] [ €1,5 ]

new york
Geoff Doyle
	The investigative firm IPSA International named Geoff Doyle as director of its New York bureau in December. (...) [ 162 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	new york-paris
	Carlyle-Otor: Score 1-1
		Paradoxically, in the battle pitting the U.S. equity fund Carlyle against France's Otor, the French packaging company won the first round in the U.S. in December and Carlyle the second in Paris. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Cash Infusion for Geos
		Founded in 1997 by Stephane Gerardin, a former NCO in the Action service of France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency, the security and intelligence firm Geos has brought in an outside investor and aims to dominate its field on continental Europe. (...) [ 347 words ] [ €5 ]