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SPOTLIGHT

Business Intelligence

Burgeoning Investigation Market in Switzerland

Long dominated by a handful of local companies, the Swiss business intelligence market has begun to attract bigger guns intent on setting up operation in the country ; they have opened offices in Geneva and Zurich which put them cheek-to-jowl with Swiss banks and multinationals. (...) [ 705 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Security : Stopping Sensitive Data Leaks a Promising market [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Islamabad
Chirac Touts French Submarine
	The French president has put in a strong word with Pakistan in favour of a French submarine that is competing with German and Spanish boats for a contract. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
Zeng Qinghon Next President?
	The mentor of China’s intelligence community, vice president Zeng Qinghong, could surprise many by being named China’s next president at the Communist Party’s 17th congress this autumn. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Baghdad
Muwaffaq al Rubai
	The official biography of Iraqi prime minister Nuri al Maliki’s highly powerful and influential adviser for national security, Muwaffaq al Rubai, conceals many a dark corner. (...) [ 272 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Jane Harman
	Denied the post of chairman of the House permanent select committee on intelligence by the new Democrat speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (California), Jane Harman has been handed the chair of another panel tasked with supervising American intelligence agencies. (...) [ 101 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Riyadh
Three Generals to Govern Iraq?
	According to Intelligence Online sources, king Abdallah suggested to Robert Gates that Iraq’s prime minister be replaced by a troika of generals. (...) [ 406 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Rome
Prodi Forms Intelligence Ministry
	After radically shaking up the top ranks of Italy's three main intelligence agencies (IOL 535), prime minister Romano Prodi is now going to table a blueprint of his intelligence reforms before the Italian parliament at the end of the month. (...) [ 264 words ] [ €5 ]

Tel Aviv
Regional Analysis by Military Intelligence
	Meeting behind closed doors on Jan. 10, the Israeli parliament's defense and foreign affairs committee examined a report by Israeli military intelligence agency that forecast possible threats in the region. (...) [ 141 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Blackbird: How to Locate Enemies - and Friends
	The $13.2 million contract (with an option for a further $15 million) that the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has just awarded to the firm Blackbird Technologies will allow American special forces in Iraq and Afghanistan later this year to start deploying tracking systems to locate enemy units. (...) [ 209 words ] [ €5 ]

Tokyo
New Military Intelligence Agency
	Japan's self-defence forces will have a 2,200-strong intelligence unit by 2009. A first force of 600 personnel will join a Central Intelligence Unit this year. (...) [ 52 words ] [ FREE ]

Paris
Privatizing Satellite Surveillance?
	A new service being offered by France’s Spot Image will put space intelligence within the range of almost anyone who can pay. (...) [ 305 words ] [ €5 ]

Damascus
Talabani Gets Cold Shoulder
	The first visit by Iraqi president Jalal Talabani to Syria between Jan. 14-20 ended in failure, according to documents detailing the talks. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

SYRIA - Struggle for a $5 Billion Inheritance

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LOOKING AHEAD

Tel Aviv - Code Positive

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Tokyo - Under Bureaucratic Rule

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Ankara - MIT Predicts Disintegration of Iraq in 2010

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	London
	U.S. Protest over BAe “Commissions”
		The British government has had to justify its decision to drop an inquiry by the Special Fraud Office into commissions paid to prominent Saudis. (...) [ 247 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Thales & EADS Bid for Sagem DS
		France’s Thales and EADS both seem interested in Sagem Defense Securite, an affiliate of Safran. (...) [ 220 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

New Delhi
Geo-Political Analysis Center for International SOS
	A world leader in medical assistance and crisis management, International SOS opened its world geo-political analysis center this month in New Delhi. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Former DGSE Man Joins ESISC
	Founded five years ago in Brussels by Claude Moniquet, a former journalist close to French intelligence, the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC) has opened an office in Paris. (...) [ 175 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Olive in Recruiting Drive
	Working out of Dubai, the private British security concern Olive, which was founded by David and Christopher St. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
A General Takes Over from Admiral at FePIE
	Named to the board of the Federation des Professionnels de l'Intelligence Economique (FePIE) while on vacation - he had just sold his stake in the Datops software firm to Lexis-Nexis- retired general Jean-Bernard Pinatel was elected president of the federation on January 15. (...) [ 99 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	Funds Line Up to invest in KSR
		In the space of a single year, the security and computer forensic firm KSR has won financial backing from leading American funds specializing in intelligence. (...) [ 305 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Paris
Olivier Martin-Boban
	Set up a year ago by Jean-Renaud Fayol and Bertrand de Turckheim, the discreet business intelligence firm Axis Associes has just taken on a third partner, Olivier Martin-Boban. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Stephen Rademaker
	BGR International, an affiliate of the Barbour Griffith & Rogers firm that was set up by Ed Rogers, former adviser to George Bush Sr. (...) [ 218 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Moscow
	Russian Network of U.S. firm PBN
		Gazprom’s new lobbyist, PBN Company, is one of the busiest American firms operating in Moscow. (...) [ 294 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Wider Horizons for French Funds
		The French “strategic” investment funds Occam and ACE Management are seeking to acquire a global dimension: Occam has raised money in London and ACE Management plans to open an office in Montreal. (...) [ 306 words ] [ €5 ]