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SPOTLIGHT

business intelligence

London Draws Arab World Custom

The demand for investigations in the Middle East has grown under the double effect of a sustained rise in the oil price that has enabled Gulf businessmen to invest widely in Western countries and the opening of the Iraqi market which has prompted the big multinational groups to seek local partners. (...) [ 708 words ] [ €7 ]

Networks & organizations

south east europe : Private Security Between Political Patronage and Organized Crime [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

intelligence
Pyongyang Boosts SIGINT
	Seoul is worried about an unprecedented increase in North Korea’s SIGINT capacity. (...) [ 260 words ] [ €4 ]

diplomacy
Rifaat Assad Turns Back on Paris
	Given the cold shoulder by French political leaders, Rifaat Assad has put all of his property in Paris up for sale. (...) [ 272 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

paris
Patrick Pailloux
	An adviser to France’s secretary-general for defense (SGDN) for scientific and technical issues since 2003, Patrick Pailloux has just been named director in chief for security of information systems (DCSSI). (...) [ 158 words ] [ €1,3 ]

washington
Denny Beaugureau
	A Harvard graduate who specializes in managing information systems, Denny Beaugureau has just been appointed special assistant for transformation at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under the authority of testing director Steven Hutchison. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €1,3 ]

politics
Keeping Grip on Shi’ites and Oil
	Saudi Arabian king Abdallah has just been secretly handed a detailed report he commissioned on how Aramco functions in its job of managing the kingdom’s oil resources. (...) [ 480 words ] [ €4 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

washington
Major Encryption Deal
	The Defense Department has just awarded the SafeNet company based in Belcamp, Maryland, the biggest contract it has ever won, a $150 million deal for the supply of the firm’s brand new KIV-7M encoders. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €4 ]

paris
Japanese Drop In On DST
	A visit to Paris last week by Takashi Oizumi, director-general of the Japanese counter espionage service Public Security Investigation Agency (PSIA: (...) [ 300 words ] [ €4 ]

geneva
Legal Wrangle
	French investigator Jean-Charles Brisard has just marked a new point in the legal wrangle that has pitted him for years against Yeslam Binladin, the half brother of Osama bin Laden, who lives in Switzerland. (...) [ 122 words ] [ €4 ]

washington
Air Force Officers Vent Grievances
	U.S. Air Force intelligence officers are beginning to complain in public about the poor career prospects in their line of work. (...) [ 307 words ] [ €4 ]

tehran
Secret Society Pulling the Strings?
	Surprised by Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s election as president of Iran, Arab intelligence agencies are pinpointing the role of a secret society, the Hujjatiya, in his victory. (...) [ 319 words ] [ €4 ]

SIGNPOSTS

UNITED STATES - Identity Theft

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LOOKING AHEAD

Tel Aviv - Spy Camera for US Army

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Damascus - Money Problems

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Paris - Poor Turnout for Syrian Opposition

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	london
	Blue Hackle a Mini Kroll?
		The British security firm Blue Hackle which employs former staff of Kroll Security International has just set up an affiliate specializing in business intelligence. (...) [ 243 words ] [ €4 ]

	paris
	U.K. Firm in New French Intel Deal
		A small computer company in Lyons, Ixxo, and its partner, Britain’s Autonomy company, have won the tender to manage the intelligence cycle at France’s DPSD. (...) [ 232 words ] [ €4 ]

FIRMS

WASHINGTON
Dyncorp On Stock Exchange
	The private security company Dyncorp International is poised to raise $450 million by floating on the New York Stock Exchange. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €4 ]

PARIS
Overhaul at Geos
	Head of operations at Geos where he specialized in business intelligence work since 2002, Jean-Renaud Fayol plans to leave the company by the end of the year to set up his own firm. (...) [ 200 words ] [ €4 ]

PARIS
Setting Up InfoForce
	A former boss of the French branch of Kroll, Jean-Claude Chalumeau has just formed a new business intelligence outfit, InfoForce which will involve itself exclusively in investigations and eschew security, lobbying and crisis communications work. (...) [ 108 words ] [ €4 ]

BRUSSELS
Cassidy & Associates Plants Flag
	On the heels of Burson-Marsteller, Fleishman-Hillard and Hill & Knowlton, the U.S. lobbying giant Cassidy & Associates has opened a European bureau. (...) [ 151 words ] [ €4 ]

	brussels
	Systran Takes on EU Commission
		Systran, a world leader in translation software that supplies the US Air Force, the CIA and FBI has accused the European Union of theft. (...) [ 413 words ] [ €4 ]

DECISION MAKERS

london
Richard Slowe
	A lawyer for the firm SJ Berwin, Richard Slowe has joined the board of Aegis Defense Service, a private security firm headed by Tim Spicer. (...) [ 185 words ] [ €1,3 ]

paris
Philippe Mechet
	The business intelligence and lobbying concern ESL & Network has just appointed Philippe Mechet as president of its affiliate, Institut Europeen d’Analyses Geo-Economique (IAEG). (...) [ 215 words ] [ €1,3 ]

	paris
	Awarding Points in Bribery Stakes
		Eurotradia International, which manages a large network of intermediaries across the world, is seeking to adapt French industry to the OECD’s anti-bribery rules. (...) [ 285 words ] [ €4 ]

	hong kong
	Hill & Associates Spreads its Wings
		Acquired by an equity fund, the investigative and security firm Hill & Associates which operates in 11 Asian countries has gone on a hiring spree. (...) [ 330 words ] [ €4 ]