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SPOTLIGHT

Intelligence

Cut-Throat Competition on Translation Market

To make up for a shortage of linguists, the American military intelligence agencies are devoting huge sums to recruiting translators and interpreters in the private sector, and those contracts represent not only a financial bonanza for the Pentagon’s sub-contractors but also a potential springboard to more sophisticated analysis and intelligence work. (...) [ 705 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Washington : Sensor Industry Shifting from Military to Civil Side [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Washington
Tough Grind Ahead for New DNI
	The change at the top in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sheds light on a number of structural weaknesses. (...) [ 289 words ] [ €5 ]

London
New Anti-Terror Strategy?
	Tony Blair is to announce a radical overhaul of Britain’s anti-terrorist organizations in coming weeks. (...) [ 182 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
James Clapper
	Ex-general James Clapper’s most recent venture into the private sector was indeed very short. (...) [ 225 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Riyadh
Adel al Jubeir
	A skilful diplomat speaking fluent English, German and French, Adel al Jubeir is tipped to become the next Saudi ambassador to Washington in succession to prince Turki al Faysal who suddenly walked out last month (IOL 537/536). (...) [ 150 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Riyadh
Secret Talks with Hezbollah
	Saudi king Abdallah began a set of secret negotiations with Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah but the initiative was almost torpedoed by an Israeli operation. (...) [ 444 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Washington
A Five Year Plan for the CIA
	Eight months after his arrival at the CIA, the agency’s new director, Michael Hayden, presented his staff on Jan. (...) [ 174 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
SIGINT Squeeze
	The 3rd department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) headed by general Qiu Rulin is feeling the heat from a step-up in interception and eavesdropping against China by foreign intelligence agencies in the Asia-Pacific region. (...) [ 250 words ] [ €5 ]

Geneva
Tariq Ramadan an “independent entrepreneur for Islam.”
	For the first time, a highly detailed and uncompromising book has painted a portrait of Tariq Ramadan. Although the book was turned down in the past year by a French publisher because it failed to demonstrate a link between the Moslem intellectual and terrorist movements, journalist Ian Hamel finally found a Swiss publisher, Favre, to issue the work on Jan. (...) [ 276 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
The Military Spy’s Bag of Tricks
	The latest report issued by the American military security authorities shows that Asian intelligence agencies are increasingly active and displaying a lot of new tricks. (...) [ 289 words ] [ €5 ]

Baghdad
Iran in Struggle for Capital
	Five Iranians arrested by American forces in Baghdad in December are reportedly intelligence agents. (...) [ 299 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

UNITED STATES - Washington - How to Work with Tyrants?

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LOOKING AHEAD

Berlin - Hackers Produce a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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Washington - An Oversight Panel for Intelligence Budget

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London - Memex Soon to Float on Stock Market

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	London
	Firm Probing EADS Deal in Libya
		Intelligence Online understands an unidentified British business intelligence firm is actively examining contracts under negotiation between EADS and Libya. (...) [ 308 words ] [ €5 ]

	Brussels
	Thales Has Trouble with TWTs
		The French defense electronics group Thales still has a long way to go to persuade the anti-trust authorities in Brussels concerning “transmitting wave tubes.” At stake is Thales’ acquisition of Alcatel’s space business. (...) [ 158 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

London
ArmorGroup Takes New Tack
	Anxious to diversify its sources of income, Britain's ArmorGroup has just laid out GBP 1 million to acquire the small firm Neil Young & Associates that specializes in dealing with kidnappings. (...) [ 214 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Bucephale Split by Rift over Safran
	According to our sources, a disagreement over France's Safran company and other major issues led to a split that was announced in late December between two of the three founders of the small Paris mergers and acquisitions concern Bucephale Finance. (...) [ 279 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Big Equity Fund Make Their Move
	After planning the initiative for six months (IOL 529), the biggest equity funds in the U.S. are to launch their own lobbying concern in Washington in February. (...) [ 186 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	Judges Switch to Consulting
		A number of former federal judges, some of whom once headed American intelligence agencies, have formed the Gavel Group to offer their expertise to U.S. multinationals. (...) [ 274 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Thomas Pickering
	After serving for five years as Boeing’s “foreign minister,” so to speak, the former U. (...) [ 170 words ] [ €1,5 ]

London
Charles Blackmore
	After quitting the London office of Vance International when it was bought out by Canada’s Garda World Security last summer, the British national, Charles Blackmore, initiated talks with the security concern Capcon Holdings. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Beijing
	Chinese Advance in Scanning Market
		Although it is banned from selling its goods in the U.S., the Chinese firm Nuctech which dominates the market for scanning machines with its British rival Smiths, has nonetheless forged close ties in America. (...) [ 266 words ] [ €5 ]