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SPOTLIGHT

industrial espionage

The Trojan Horses that Stalk Companies

The break-up of a huge industrial espionage ring in Israel a few days ago provides a stark reminder of the vulnerability of companies to even relatively unsophisticated computer attacks. The Israeli police's anti-fraud unit has already arrested ten company bosses and eleven officials from three private investigative firms for alleged involvement in the case. (...) [ 720 words ] [ €7 ]

Networks & organizations

Identification : Biometry Makes its Debut in Schengen Area [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

intelligence
Learning About Foreign Cultures
	In an attempt to make up for gaps in intelligence that have surfaced during the conflict in Iraq, the US Army plans to open a special university. (...) [ 278 words ] [ €4 ]

terrorism
Zarqawi's Team in Iraq
	The head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, has established a particularly effective command structure and operational organization in the country. (...) [ 314 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

paris
Francois-Xavier Deniau
	Director of strategy at the French foreign intelligence agency Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) for the past four years, Francois-Xavier Deniau is due to shortly leave his job on the Boulevard Mortier in Paris. (...) [ 243 words ] [ €1,3 ]

Baghdad
Saadun al Duleimi
	Named defense minister in the government of prime minister Ibrahim, al Jaafari on May 8, Saadun Farhan al Duleimi now finds himself bickering with Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Baqr Sulagh. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €1,3 ]

diplomacy
Rifaat's International Friends
	Rifaat al Assad, who has just announced plans to shortly return to Syria, is busy reactivating his political networks in the U.S., Europe and the Gulf. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €4 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

paris
Uncertainty Over Top Police Job
	The new French government, and primarily interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, will make the final call on the matter. But if Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, current boss of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) is still tipped as the next director-general of the French police force another name has being doing the rounds in government circles: (...) [ 247 words ] [ €4 ]

Seoul
Embarrassing Disclosures for Western Intelligence
	Revelations about the kidnapping and murder of Kim Hyuing-wook, former director of South Korean intelligence, 25 years ago in Paris are deeply embarrassing to Western intelligence agencies. (...) [ 388 words ] [ €4 ]

washington
Inadequate Protection
	The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has just issued a request for information to find effective solutions for the real-time protection of the Pentagon's information systems. (...) [ 76 words ] [ FREE ]

espionage
Taiwan SIGINT Infiltrated
	Over the past month Taiwan's counter-espionage agency has arrested around 20 military men and civilian employees at the defense ministry. (...) [ 206 words ] [ €4 ]

insurgency
U.S. Ponders Air Strikes on Syria
	Exasperated by Syria's support for the insurgency in Iraq, the United States could be poised to launch pinpoint air strikes on Syrian targets. (...) [ 440 words ] [ €4 ]

SIGNPOSTS

Identification - One hour before takeoff

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LOOKING AHEAD

Washington - Human Sensors

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Geneva - New Reprieve for Wang

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London - Terrorism and Intelligence

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	dubai
	Emirate Pushes Security Outfit
		The ruling family in the emirate of Dubai has put its weight behind the formation of a private security and investigation company to rival Western firms. (...) [ 269 words ] [ €4 ]

	washington
	RFID Standards Collide
		The companies and nations that use radio frequency identification (RFID) are each developing different standards, and that could lead to interoperability headaches in future. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €4 ]

FIRMS

Washington
Private Anti-Terrorist Network
	The Motley Rice law firm, which has launched several class actions against Saudi Arabian princes and Jordan's Arab Bank, on behalf of families of the victims of Sept. (...) [ 288 words ] [ €4 ]

london
ArmorGroup Could Shortly Win Work from MOD
	The British security concern ArmorGroup has taken on Stephen Anderton who retired from the Royal Air Force in March with the rank of commandant-general and will now work to land contracts for the firm from the British Army and Ministry of Defence (MOD). (...) [ 132 words ] [ €4 ]

Washington
Dyncorp, Crop Destroyer
	For the third time since 1991, Dyncorp International has been awarded a contract worth an initial $174 million from the State Department's bureau for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs to destroy coca and poppy fields in Latin America and South East Asia. (...) [ 125 words ] [ €4 ]

mountain view
Google Hires Former Iraq Man
	Dan Senor, who was spokesman for the U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, until last June, has just been recruited by the U. (...) [ 117 words ] [ €4 ]

	Cambridge
	When Harvard Teams Up with MI6
		The Monitor Group, a network of consultancies headed by professors from the Harvard Business School, has pulled off the considerable feat of hiring Richard Dearlove, former director-general of MI6. (...) [ 414 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

london
Ron Cook
	The British defense ministry's former director for equipment capability, intelligence, surveillance, targeting and reconnaissance (ISTAR), retired air commodore Ron Cook, has been picked by the U. (...) [ 152 words ] [ €1,3 ]

the hague
Frits Bolkestein
	Former European commissioner for the internal market, Holland's Frits Bolkestein was named to the international advisory board of the Russian bank Menatep, leading shareholder in the Yukos oil group, last week. (...) [ 202 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	paris
	Duel Between Lobbying Leaders
		Considered one of France's most influential women, Anne Meaux, head of the Image 7 agency, is doing battle with Stephane Fouks, boss of Euro-RSCG, concerning Thales. (...) [ 360 words ] [ €4 ]

	washington
	Terrorism Expert Joins Vance
		After leading the inquiry into the would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid for the Justice Department, Gerard Leone Jr. has joined the security firm Vance International. (...) [ 113 words ] [ €4 ]