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SPOTLIGHT

UNITED STATES

The New Homeland Security Chieftains

In response to the runaway rise in government spending on homeland security, several former members of Washington's political elite have jumped into the sector. After working for the White House, the Pentagon and even the Department of Homeland Security, they have set up their own financial services companies that operate very much on the borderline between lobbying and financial consultancy. (...) [ 683 words ] [ €7 ]

Networks & organizations

High Technologies : Apax Partners a Geostrategic Fund? [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

organized crime
Tokyo & Beijing Fight the Gangs
	Despite their diplomatic differences, China and Japan signed two treaties organizing a joint battle against Japan's Yakuzas and Chinese triads on June 8. (...) [ 310 words ] [ €4 ]

politics
Syria's Three Red Lines
	The 10th Ba'ath party congress, which ended on June 9, saw off a number of old party hacks but the hardliners in government tightened their grip on the regime. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

damascus
General Ali Mamluk
	Deputy director of the Syrian Air Force's intelligence service since 1994, general Ali Mamluk has just been named head of the General Intelligence agency at the interior ministry by president Bashar al Assad. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €1,3 ]

washington
Vice Admiral John Redd
	In nominating vice admiral John Redd as the future boss of the National Counterterrorism Center on June 10, president George W. (...) [ 127 words ] [ €1,3 ]

insurgency
Secret American Talks
	U.S. diplomats and officers have been conducting secret talks with the Iraqi insurgency since the end of April. (...) [ 190 words ] [ €4 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

tokyo
Chinese Spy Ship
	Japanese military intelligence identified and tracked a Chinese spy ship named Nandiao 441 between May 23 and June 6 at the outer reaches of Japan's exclusive economic zone near Okinotori island. (...) [ 240 words ] [ €4 ]

washington
Farming Out PsyOps
	The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has just awarded three "media approach planning" contracts to the private companies Lincoln Group, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and SyColeman Incorporated. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €4 ]

paris
ESSAIM Hard at Work
	The four tiny ESSAIM satellites that piggy-backed into space aboard the military observation satellite Helios 2 launched in late December by an Ariane 5 rocket have been operating since last month. (...) [ 136 words ] [ €4 ]

space
Galileo Falling Behind Schedule?
	The two consortiums vying for the concession to run Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system are now presenting a joint bid for the contract. But problems remain. (...) [ 315 words ] [ €4 ]

armaments
Sarkozy in MIKSA Driving Seat
	Nicolas Sarkozy's return as French interior minister could greatly alter the conditions in which French armaments contracts are negotiated with Saudi Arabia. (...) [ 405 words ] [ €4 ]

SIGNPOSTS

UNITED STATES - Counter-Terrorism: Hidden Links

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LOOKING AHEAD

Baghdad - Non Traditional Intelligence

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Paris - A European Research Center?

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Washington - NGS Seeks New Home

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	paris
	TPG Seeks to Sell Gemplus Stake
		Intelligence Online has learned the U.S. firm TPG is seeking to dispose of its holding in Gemplus, world leader in smart card technology. (...) [ 364 words ] [ €4 ]

	washington
	The Private Eye Lobby
		Proposals for tougher legislation against identity theft promise to make life more difficult for investigative firms. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €4 ]

FIRMS

washington
Powerful Backers for Spectrum Group
	A lobbying firm that specializes in the defense sector, Spectrum Group, and counts EADS and Robertson Aviation among its customers, has just appointed a senior advisory board to strengthen its ties with the Pentagon and American military contractors. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €4 ]

Paris
American Contracts for Temis
	Intelligence Online understands the small French firm Temis, one of the world's leading players in text mining technology (IOL 499), signed an important partnership agreement with the U. (...) [ 311 words ] [ €4 ]

paris
Euro RSCG Hires Ex Newsman
	The new owner of the Paris daily Le Figaro offered the paper's editor-in-chief Jean de Belot another job within the group when he was replaced by Nicolas Beytout last October but de Belot preferred to cross the barricades. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €4 ]

	paris
	Major Business Intelligence Tie-Up
		For the first time two big business intelligence outfits - ADIT and CEIS - are teaming up to form lobbying and "territorial intelligence" partnerships. (...) [ 430 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

washington
Stuart Holliday
	Number two man at the U.S. delegation to the United Nations between December, 2003 and May, 2005, Stuart Holliday has just been hired by the lobbying concern Quinn Gillespie & Associates to set up a department in the firm to represent foreign governments. (...) [ 153 words ] [ €1,3 ]

london
Neil Kinnock
	Former leader of the Labour Party and ex European commissioner, Neil Kinnock came under attack by several Conservative legislators last week for having accepted a post with the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), an international shipowners' interest group based in Copenhagen. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	paris
	Funds Run into Rough Weather
		The strategic equity funds the French government is promoting are having trouble in getting off the ground. (...) [ 322 words ] [ €4 ]

	brussels
	EU to Take Charge of SIS
		Up to now an inter-governmental network, the Schengen Information System will fall under the direct authority of the European Union in 2007. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €4 ]