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SPOTLIGHT

Intelligence

Negroponte Faces First Crucial Tests

The new Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Negroponte, knows he must act very quickly to assert his authority over the 15 agencies that make up the American intelligence community. Less than three weeks after his appointment was confirmed by the Senate he has already taken a number of measures. (...) [ 751 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Paris : Drifting from Defense to Homeland Security [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Intelligence
Calling in Old Debts
	To counter a strong U.S. offensive, China's intelligence agencies have taken to reminding the Russians of long-standing relations between Beijing and Moscow. (...) [ 252 words ] [ €5 ]

Defense
Transatlantic or Bipolar
	Will the overhaul of the West's defense industries be done on a Transatlantic or bi-polar basis? (...) [ 198 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Amman
Samih Asfoura
	Appointed director of the General Intelligence Department (GID) by king Abdallah II on May 5, major general Samih Asfoura has spent his entire career in the intelligence branch. (...) [ 263 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Bert Calland
	CIA director Porter Goss has named vice admiral Bert Calland as acting deputy director to fill a current gap at the agency - Goss hasn't had an official deputy since he took over last September. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Diplomacy
FBI in New Saudi Build-Up
	FBI director Robert Mueller's visit to Saudi Arabia underscores the agency's intention to build up ties with Riyadh following crown prince Abdallah's trip to the U.S. (...) [ 405 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Paris
New Chief for UCLAT
	As Intelligence Online anticipated in its April 25 issue (IOL 498), a chief superintendent from France's Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), Christope Chaboud, will take over as boss of UCLAT, a unit of the French criminal police, Police Judiciaire (PJ) which specializes in the fight against terrorism. (...) [ 237 words ] [ €5 ]

Baghdad
Naicho's Race to Free Hostage
	Toshinori Kanemoto, the boss of Naicho, the Japanese prime minister's intelligence agency, is keeping a close eye on the fate of security agent Akihiko Saito who was kidnapped by the Islamic group Ansar al Sunah at Al Assad some 180 km west of Baghdad on May 8. (...) [ 230 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Less Military Expenditure, More Security
	Two independent American organizations, the Center for Defense Information (CDI) and Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), have just published a report showing how the U. (...) [ 297 words ] [ €5 ]

Fundamentalism
Split in Oman's Ibadite Community
	An investigation into four bomb attacks that have rocked Muscat since early this year has revealed a deep split in the Ibadite community, which is in majority in Oman. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]

UAVS
The Pentagon's Disposable Robots
	The recent AUVSI Pathfinder Symposium underscored the Pentagon's interest in disposable miniature ground robots (Throwbot) that could be tossed like grenades. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

SYRIA - Intelligence - From Anjar to DamascuS

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LOOKING AHEAD

Damascus - Three Month Deadline

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Paris - Network Centric Warfare

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Washington - A Magazine for MASINT?

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Paris
	EADS Finds Fault with BlackBerry
		A research center run by EADS has detected a serious security problem with BlackBerry, the mobile telephone that can receive e-mails. (...) [ 314 words ] [ €5 ]

	Brussels
	Fight Over Telecoms Archives
		The European Union could force telephone operators to keep data on calls for a full 12 months. (...) [ 114 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

Washington
Ashcroft Takes the Lobbying Trail
	Attorney-general during president George W. Bush's first term, the ultra conservative John Ashcroft has just set up his own lobbying firm, The Ashcroft Group, to specialize in homeland security questions. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

Bombay
Tightening Up Security at Relocated Firms
	Relocating call centers and data bases to India in ever- increasing numbers, American financial services and technology firms are seeking to achieve maximum security for their customer's data (bank account numbers, medical records and the like). (...) [ 141 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Hakluyt Loses One of Its Mentors
	Alex Trotman, a British national who served as CEO of the Ford motor company in the U.S. and was also a board member at the private London intelligence firm Hakluyt, died last week. (...) [ 178 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
US China Business Council Poaches Kissinger Staffer
	Erin Ennis has just been named vice president of the U.S. China Business Council, an organization that represents U.S. multinationals operating in China. (...) [ 97 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	Rivalry Surfaces in Iraq Oil Probe
		Congressional committees looking into purchases of Iraqi oil during the embargo are vying furiously with one another to be the first to complete their investigation and make political hay out of their reports. (...) [ 380 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Dennis Reimer
	Chief-of-staff of the American army between 1995-99, general Dennis Reimer has just joined DFI International, a leading sub-contractor to the Pentagon, Homeland Security Department and the American intelligence community. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Brussels
Pedro Pedreira
	Two French nationals had been tipped for the job: Patrick Bellouard, inter-governmental coordinator of the Galileo program in France and Alain Bories, chief of Thales' space division and chairman of the Galileo Services industrial association. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Brussels
	Euro MPs to Keep Tabs on SIS?
		The Shengen Information System (SIS) operated by European forces may shortly be subject to parliamentary oversight. (...) [ 283 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Seeing Galileo from the Inside
		A discreet French company named France Developpement Conseil (FDC) has emerged as a leading player in the future Galileo satellite navigation system. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]