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SPOTLIGHT

business intelligence

France Polishes Sales Tactics in China

Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to Paris in early December can be expected to set a fresh spur to French business interests in China. To catch up with their European and American competitors, French companies have been polishing their salesmanship tactics in China over the past decade in order to land contracts. (...) [ 704 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

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Political Intelligence

intelligence
Tokyo May Take Cue from British
	Over the past six months Japan has sent experts to Europe to question European intelligence aides on the best model to adopt in forming a central intelligence outfit: MI6, DGSE or BND? (...) [ 250 words ] [ €5 ]

terrorism funding
Washington Lashes Out At Riyadh
	While acknowledging that some progress has been achieved Washington is critical of Saudi Arabia’s measures to crack down on funding of terrorism. (...) [ 205 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

washington
Harry Niedzwiadek
	CEO of Image Matters, a small company founded in Leesburg, Virginia in 2000, Harry Niedzwiadek has just received a $1 million reward from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). (...) [ 206 words ] [ €1,5 ]

amman
Marouf al Bakhit
	The new director of the Jordan’s National Security Agency and adviser to king Abdallah for security, Marouf al Bakhit, has played a decisive role for the past 15 years in relations between Jordan and Israel. (...) [ 189 words ] [ €1,5 ]

terrorism
Reason Behind Amman Attacks
	In response to the three bomb attacks in Amman on Nov. 9 king Abdallah hesitated for a few days but finally decided to retain the heads of the country’s security agencies while firing 11 of his close advisers. (...) [ 442 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

paris
Sarkozy Favors Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence
	French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy has made it clear to a commission that vets legislation in the National Assembly that he favors parliamentary oversight of French intelligence agencies. (...) [ 373 words ] [ €5 ]

washington
Paper Mountain Defies Agencies
	Two U.S. legislators have broken sharply with the traditional approach of U.S. intelligence agencies in a letter to the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Negroponte. (...) [ 369 words ] [ €5 ]

sects
How Beijing is Preparing for Olympics
	China’s deputy public security minister Liu Jing has been handed the job of stamping out the Buddhist-Taoist Falun Gong sect before the Olympic Games in 2008. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

fundamentalism
Iran Also Bogged Down in Iraq
	Backed by Iran, Musab al Zarqawi has launched a brutal offensive against Shi‘ites in Iraq. Is Tehran playing both sides or has it lost control of the situation? (...) [ 328 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

UNITED KINGDOM - Identification - Expensive and ineffective

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LOOKING AHEAD

Washington - Intelligence Alliance

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Paris - Clamp on Interceptions

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Heraklion - Grand Tour of Europe for ENISA

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	washington
	PR Couple Delivers for Chalabi
		Ahmad Chalabi’s triumphant return to Washington as deputy Iraqi prime minister was largely the work of a man-and-wife lobbying team, Jeffrey Weiss and Juleanna Glover Weiss. (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

	brussels
	New EU Push for Transparency
		A European Union initiative on transparency could well compel lobbyists to publish the content of their communications with the Commission and force OLAF to divulge the results of its investigations. (...) [ 171 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

washington
New Diplomatic Heavyweights at Kissinger Firm
	The Washington branch of the consultancy set up by former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, Kissinger McLarty Associates, has just hired four experienced U. (...) [ 167 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
The Men Around New EADS Managing Director
	Appointed joint managing director of EADS in June, 44-year-old Jean-Paul Gut changed overnight from being the company’s super salesman in his capacity as head of EADS International to that of the group’s number two man and quasi-official successor to Noel Forgeard as co-chief executive in five years. (...) [ 421 words ] [ €5 ]

moscow
Former Yukos Men Find Work
	Spokesman for the Russian oil group Yukos between 1999-2004, former Norwegian journalist Hugo Erikssen has just joined the British PR and lobbying concern MMD founded by Alistair McLeish which specializes in East Europe and Russia. (...) [ 120 words ] [ €5 ]

	identification
	Chinese Smart Cards in Europe
		Chinese companies are making a serious stab at selling smart cards abroad and of supplanting European firms that do big business on China’s home market. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

washington
Lee Van Arsdale
	Almost exclusively staffed by veterans of the U.S. Delta Force, the private security firm Triple Canopy will shortly have a new boss. (...) [ 221 words ] [ €1,5 ]

london
Rachel Whetstone
	Serving for years as chief-of-staff to Michael Howard, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, Rachel Whetstone has just been hired by Google to act as its leading lobbyist in Europe. (...) [ 167 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	securitY
	3rd Tender for EU Contracts
		The European Commission’s enterprises directorate will issue a third call for bids next year for homeland security projects. The operation will be overseen by a consultative panel made up largely of corporate experts. (...) [ 275 words ] [ €5 ]

	identification
	Standards for “Internet of Things”
		The ITU believes all remote identification technologies will form an integrated network one day and proposes to define the standards. (...) [ 435 words ] [ €5 ]