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SPOTLIGHT

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Why TPG Has to Withdraw from Gemplus

Revealed by Intelligence Online on June 17 (No. 502), the decision by the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) to sell its 26,5% holding in Gemplus, world leader in smart card technology, has caused a major stir in the business circles concerned by the move but also in some government quarters in the United States and Europe. (...) [ 736 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Terrorism : How Useful are International Lists ? [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

intelligence
Big Allocation for Negroponte
	By a crushing majority of 409 votes to 16, the House of Representatives adopted a specially generous budget for the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI). (...) [ 209 words ] [ €5 ]

organized crime
Chill between Beijing & Canberra
	Cooperation between the Chinese and Australians in the fight against China's triads could well suffer from recent tension between Beijing and Canberra. (...) [ 237 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Arbil
Karim Sinjari
	The interior minister in Iraq's Kurdistan region, Karim Sanjari has been head of Parastin, the Kurdistan Democratic Party's intelligence agency, since 1992, The most powerful man in the region after KDP leader Massud Barzani, the 56-year-old Sanjari is a staunch ally of the Americans and Israelis: (...) [ 215 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Scott Charbo
	A tough task awaits Scott Charbo, the brand new chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security. (...) [ 164 words ] [ €1,5 ]

intelligence
Changes at DGSE
	Every July the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE proceeds with a string of in-house changes. This year won't be any different. (...) [ 349 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

seoul
New Boss for NIS
	At the behest of South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun, former justice minister Kim Seong-kyu is slated to become head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), formerly known as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). (...) [ 302 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Dutch Passport for Wang?
	The saga surrounding the sale of French frigates to Taiwan - the judicial aspect of the case will shortly come to a head - can still turn up the odd surprise. (...) [ 309 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Squaring Off at RG
	The French police intelligence agency Renseignements Generaux (RG) can hardly be likened to a boxing ring but two officials nonetheless slugged it out on June 1. (...) [ 145 words ] [ €5 ]

politics
Rifaat Waits for U.S. Go-Ahead
	Living in exile in Marbella, Rifaat al Assad, uncle of the Syrian president, is waiting for a green light from Washington and Riyadh to make his move. (...) [ 289 words ] [ €5 ]

diplomacy
Emirates Cross Swords with Saudis
	A territorial dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has taken an angry turn. (...) [ 325 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

Defense - Ups And Downs At Thales

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LOOKING AHEAD

Sacremento - RFID Banned in California?

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Washington - Flying Apart in Space

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Grenoble - Helios 2 Sees at Night

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	paris
	A Security Technologies Branch?
		The French prime minister has sent legislator Pierre Lasbordes on a six month facts-finding mission about developing security technologies for the country's information systems. (...) [ 287 words ] [ €5 ]

	washington
	New Clamp on China Trade
		The Department of Commerce is intent on drastically curbing technology transfers to China. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

washington
Thales Hires a Lobbyist
	The French mililtary electronics firm Thales has just signed a contract with the firm Holland & Knight to help it land radio communication contracts with the U. (...) [ 161 words ] [ €5 ]

london
Aegis Contract Renewed
	Despite criticism from the U.S. inspector-general for reconstruction in Iraq, Britain's Aegis Defense Services has won a year-long extension of its contract with the Project and Contracting Office in Baghdad. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €5 ]

washington
The CIA's Video Games
	The CIA's investment fund In-Q-Tel has just invested in the firm Destineer which publishes the Close Combat: First to Fight video game. (...) [ 110 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Apax Partners Clarify
	In the wake of our article on June 17 entitled "Apax Partners a Geostrategic Fund? (IOL 502), Maurice Tchenio, president of Apax Partners SA (Paris) wished to clarify the following points: (...) [ 104 words ] [ FREE ]

washington
The Content Analysis Race
	To steal a march on its American and European competitors trying to win contracts from the U.S. administration, the publisher of unstructured data analysis software Intelligenzia is teaming up with a lot of well-connected companies. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	New Firewall's Financial Backers
		Banks and equity funds have been quick to provide funding for firms designing a second-generation of firewalls known as "web application firewalls." (...) [ 385 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

paris
Patrice Menard
	Deputy chief of the Operations Directorate at the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE since 2000, colonel Patrice Menard is going to take up work on Sept. (...) [ 227 words ] [ €1,5 ]

new york
Ernest Brod
	The former chief executive officer of Citigate Global Intelligence, Ernest Brod, has joined the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu accountancy group. (...) [ 167 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	defense
	EU Rejects National Preference
		European institutions parted company with European Union member governments and armaments companies during a wide-ranging debate on opening defense markets up to competition. (...) [ 236 words ] [ €5 ]

	paris
	New Business Intelligence Group
		France's Federation des Professionnels de l'Intelligence Economique is to be launched on July 11. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]