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SPOTLIGHT

business intelligence

An Uneven Combat Between Steel Giants

Caught off balance by the takeover bid launched by Mittal Steel on Jan. 27, Arcelor is on the defensive and is torn between counter-attacking or compromising. The Mittal family for its part can rely on strong lobbying networks for support. (...) [ 726 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

defense : Paris Moves to Streamline Political and Military Research [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

computer security
Keynectis vs Verisign Again
	The U.S. Verisign group and France’s Keynectis are once again battling for a key market: the SITA group’s digital certification platform. (...) [ 318 words ] [ €5 ]

intelligence
An Up-Market Sigint 737
	Boeing has just announced the launch of a 737 SIGINT aircraft for both the American and international markets. (...) [ 189 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

washington
Robert Grenier
	Has the CIA become unmanageable? After the unexpected resignation in September of Robert Richer, number two man in the agency’s National Clandestine Service (NCS) - the new name of the old directorate of operations - Robert Grenier has been eased out as boss of the Counterterrorism Center. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran
Mohammad B. Zolqadr
	Named deputy interior minister in charge of security affairs in November, brigadier general Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr displayed his clout in late January by obtaining the release of seven of the eight Iranian border guards who had been captured by a group of Sunni rebels in the Sistan-Baluchestan province. (...) [ 256 words ] [ €1,5 ]

proliferation
Tehran Lost the Battle of Vienna
	Over the past six months, Iran has hardened its intelligence stance relative to its nuclear program but has lost ground on the diplomatic level. (...) [ 414 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

washington
NGA a World-Wide Agency?
	Still in the grips of a radical overhaul that began when it changed its name in November, 2003, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA, the former NIMA) now seems anxious to spread its wings abroad. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €5 ]

Baghdad
US Woos Sunni Insurgents
	For some weeks now the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the deputy director for planning and strategy at US Centcom, general Mark Kimmit (former deputy head of US Army operations in Iraq) have been meeting with Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq. (...) [ 426 words ] [ €5 ]

intelligence
Top Marks for Japan’s IAS
	Overhauled a year ago, the intelligence and analysis unit of Japan’s foreign ministry has won top marks. (...) [ 344 words ] [ €5 ]

space imagery
How NGA Works for the FBI
	The U.S. space intelligence agency has developed a web-based cartographic interface named Palanterra to enhance homeland security in the U.S. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

NEW ZEALAND - Espionage - New Revelations About Echelon

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LOOKING AHEAD

Bethesda (Maryland) - Intelcon 2006 in May

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Brussels - Three Defense Priorities

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Paris - Squarcini Rides to Djouhri’s Rescue

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	paris
	Brain Drain at DCSSI
		Sharply criticized in a recent report by legislator Pierre Lasbordes, France’s Direction Centrale des Systemes d’Information is fast losing some of its senior staff. (...) [ 326 words ] [ €5 ]

	washington
	Privatizing Border Surveillance?
		The U.S. Customers and Border Protection Agency is intent on outsourcing some of its work to private firms. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

washington
GlobalOptions Buys Out SafirRosetti
	Founded in 2001 by the former New York police commissioner Howard Safir and the ex-vice chairman of Kroll, Joseph Rosetti, the New York firm Safir Rosetti has just been acquired by the American investigation and security consultancy GlobalOptions for $13 million. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €5 ]

paris
Big Cash Injection for Atlantic
	The only French business intelligence firm to be listed on the stock exchange, Atlantic Capital is seeking to raise EUR5 million with a share issue. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

washington
Kissinger Pitching for Areva
	In a memo to the U.S. Senate that listed its foreign customers, Kissinger McLarty, the Washington outpost of the consultancy headed by former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, indicated on Jan. (...) [ 150 words ] [ €5 ]

london
Diligence Opens an Africa Department, too
	The London office of the U.S. private intelligence firm Diligence has hired several diplomats to help form a team of investigators specializing in Africa. (...) [ 134 words ] [ €5 ]

	london
	Olive Strikes Out for Growth
		Still largely dependent on its contracts in Iraq, the British security group Olive is looking beyond the Middle East for new sources of revenue. (...) [ 427 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

paris
Jean-Pierre Pochon
	After spending his entire career working for intelligence agencies, Jean-Pierre Pochon has been serving as director of strategy and development at Securite sans Frontieres (SWSF), the security affiliate of Sofema Groupe, since Feb. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €1,5 ]

washington
Steve Casteel
	The Washington-based investigation and security company Vance, which was acquired at the end of last year by Canada’s Garda World Security, has just hired the former head of intelligence at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Steve Casteel. (...) [ 116 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	tokyo/beijing
	A Peculiar Dual Technology Transfer
		Yamaha Motors has been accused of illegally exporting dual-use equipment to China but it’s hard to imagine Tokyo was unaware of what the company was up to. (...) [ 303 words ] [ €5 ]

	london
	Hakluyt Founder Calls it a Day
		Christopher James, who founded Hakluyt, the most secretive business intelligence firm in London, has decided to go into retirement. (...) [ 336 words ] [ €5 ]