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SPOTLIGHT

intelligence

Finely-Tuned Machine for Negroponte & Hayden

The high visibility of ambassador John Negroponte who took over in April as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in the American media shouldn’t overshadow the powerful administrative service his principle deputy (DDNI), Air Force general Michael Hayden, is putting together. (...) [ 725 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

washington : Bush Overhauls PFIAB but Keeps Room for His Friends [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

intelligence
A Very Enterprising Chinese Attache
	The German intelligence agencies BfV and BND are only too happy to see the back of colonel Zhang Chantai who served at Beijing’s embassy in Berlin. They considered him a lynchpin in Chinese technological espionage in Germany. (...) [ 344 words ] [ €5 ]

defense
A Division of Labor in Europe?
	Subsidized by EADS, a 100-page report issued by the CSIS made 50 recommendations on integrating Europe’s defenses and bolstering Transatlantic ties. (...) [ 114 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

cairo
General Sami Annan
	Appointed armed forces chief-of-staff by president Hosni Mubarak on Oct. (...) [ 311 words ] [ €1,5 ]

washington
Kevin Brock
	Barely a year after being named principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Arthur Cummings has returned to the FBI and been replaced by another FBI man, 51-year-old Kevin Brock who had up to now been deputy director of the agency’s Directorate of Intelligence. (...) [ 107 words ] [ €1,5 ]

terrorism
Damascus Counts on Iran Link
	Siding with Damascus, Iran is intent on helping Syria by launching new offensives on the West Bank and in Iraq. (...) [ 462 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

tokyo
New Intelligence Chiefs
	A cabinet re-shuffle carried out by prime minister Junichiro Koizumi on Oct. 25 produced a government that is strongly nationalist in character. (...) [ 319 words ] [ €5 ]

washington
Mini-UAVs the Latest Craze
	Small is decidedly beautiful when it comes to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Canadian military plans to buy tiny UAVs to serve in Afghanistan next summer while the Australians have just acquired Israeli Skylarks and turned them over to the Al Muthanna Task Group (AMTG) based in southern Iraq. (...) [ 218 words ] [ €5 ]

warsaw
Radical House-Cleaning
	Despite opposition from NATO, Poland’s new conservative prime minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, is planning to disband the military intelligence agency Wojskowych Sluzb Informacyjych (WSI). (...) [ 188 words ] [ €5 ]

electronic warfare
Breakthrough for “Digital Killers”
	The threat of cutbacks in major American defense programs has given rise to revelations about the capability of new and future fighter aircraft. Such information was classified up to now. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

intelligence
DGSE Boosts Eavesdropping Capacity
	Investment by France’s DGSE intelligence agency is going to rise by 16% in 2006, to nearly EUR120 million. (...) [ 320 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

SAUDI ARABIA - Islamism - Tough Week

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LOOKING AHEAD

Riyadh - New Al Qaeda Offensive?

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Paris - A “Heterogeneous” Program

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Washington - Powers Seen as Too Wide

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	paris
	DGA Picks a French PKI
		The French defense ministry has made a complete about face by dropping public key infrastructure (PKI) offered by a U.S. firm and choosing a French solution. (...) [ 301 words ] [ €5 ]

	brussels
	Squabble over Galileo’s Headquarters
		Europe has saved its Galileo system but the fight to play host to its ground facilities is in full swing. (...) [ 202 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

london
New Luminary at Montrose
	Mike Welton, former boss of the British engineering giant Balfour Beatty and now chief of the Hanson construction group, joined the consultative board of the British business intelligence firm Montrose Associates at the end of October. (...) [ 279 words ] [ €5 ]

london
Aegis Buys Out Rubicon
	Founded in 1997 by John Davidson, a former British special forces officer, Rubicon has been acquired by Aegis Defense Service, a firm run by Tim Spicer. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €5 ]

washington
Law Firm Takes Over Hill Solutions
	Founded in 1999 and specializing in defense and homeland security questions, the Hill Solutions lobbying concern has just be acquired by the corporate law firm Buchanan Ingersoll in a move that provided the latter with a department specializing in security. (...) [ 211 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Correction
	In our article on Oct. 28 on the Institut d’Etudes et de Recherche pour la Securite des Entreprises (IERSE), we mistakenly stated that colonel Regis Bourcois was chief-of-staff to the director-general of France’s Gendarmerie. (...) [ 71 words ] [ FREE ]

	minsk
	French Arms Dealers In Belarus Tie
		After working for years with American go-betweens, the state-controlled Belarus armaments firm Beltechexport now counts on French partners. (...) [ 464 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

london
Andy Bearpark
	Former director for reconstruction and infrastructure at the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, Andy Bearpark will shortly take over as head of a new trade association for Britain’s security companies, the British Association of Private Security Companies (BAPSC). (...) [ 185 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Berlin
Torsten Hinkelmann
	The U.S. investigative firm Diligence has just hired a long-serving executive of Credit Suisse to open its office in Berlin. (...) [ 205 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	paris
	A Strategic “General Staff” for PM
		In a report entitled “The Strategist State” that will shortly be published, the French think tank CEPS is recommending reforms aimed at improving the State’s effectiveness. (...) [ 306 words ] [ €5 ]

	new york
	Private Investigators for U.N.
		The commission appointed by Kofi Annan to look into the U.N.’s oil-for-food program in Iraq called on several private firms for assistance. (...) [ 333 words ] [ €5 ]