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SPOTLIGHT

United Kingdom

Hobbling the Business Intelligence Trade

An overhaul of the private investigative business undertaken by Gordon Brown’s government could well rein in the operations of the business intelligence trade. In a bid to preserve their freedom of movement, all of the big names in the industry have joined the fight against regulations that the Security Industry Authority wishes to impose. (...) [ 691 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

United States : Cosmetic Touch to Defense Policy Board [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Paris
French-Russian Technical Seminar
	Officials from several French police agencies and security industry aides held talks last month with computer experts from Russia’s FSB. (...) [ 271 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Cutting the Pentagon’s Special Funds
	Funding for several special operations overseen by the Pentagon could be axed in the 2008 military budget that Congress is currently examining. (...) [ 142 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Scott Large
	The Pentagon has chosen to promote an in-house official rather than an outsider to replace Donald Kerr as head of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). (...) [ 184 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Islamabad
Ashfaz Pervez Kiani
	Named commander in chief of Pakistan’s armed forces early this month in the place of Pervez Musharraf, general Ashfaq Pervez Kiani secretly pulled a lot of strings for Musharraf since he met the Pakistani president in 1998. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Kuwait City
Agencies Gird for Fight Against Iran
	The latest meeting of intelligence chiefs from the Gulf Cooperation Council nations was devoted entirely to the threat of conflict with Iran. (...) [ 430 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Paris
DGSE Puts Out Feelers in Academia
	Like its counterparts in the U.S. intelligence agencies, the new human resources department at DGSE is hoping to inspire university students to seek a career on the dark side. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
New Intelligence Coordinator
	The 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party confirmed the appointment of Zhou Yongkang, minister of public security (Gonganbu) as supreme coordinator of China’s intelligence services and offered him a seat on the permanent committee of the party’s Political Bureau. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
DNI Finds it Hard to Keep His Senior Staff
	Less than a month after finally getting a deputy - the post had remained vacant for 18 months (IOL 556) - the director of national Intelligence, Mike McConnell, last week lost his counter-terrorism chief, vice admiral John Redd. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €5 ]

taipei
Triad a Powerful Ally of Beijing
	Affiliated with Taiwan intelligence in the past, the chief of the United Bamboos triad, Chen Chi-li, swore allegiance to Beijing long before his death early this month. (...) [ 292 words ] [ €5 ]

Tehran
Standoff at National Security Council
	Ari Larijani’s dismissal was the opening shot in a battle between conservatives and those in favour of reforms to set guidelines for the Supreme National Security Council. (...) [ 282 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

RUSSIA - Moscow - Putin to Promote Sales in Tripoli

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LOOKING AHEAD

Moscow - The True Cost of the War in Chechnya

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Washington - Intelligence Budget Made Public for First Time

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Moscow - SVR Told to Help Russian Companies

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	New York
	Jules Kroll Returns
		Conflict between the consulting branch of Kroll and the group’s top bosses has forced the firm’s founder, Jules Kroll, to climb back into the driving seat. (...) [ 200 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Closing Ranks Against Sovereign Funds
		In conjunction with its U.S., British and German counterparts, France’s finance ministry is examining legislation to rein in sovereign funds. (...) [ 244 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

Washington
Cassidy Takes Up Cudgel for Pakistan
	K Street has long made hay out of never-ending conflicts in the world. That's the case of the rift between China and Taiwan but also the standoff between Pakistan and India. (...) [ 251 words ] [ €5 ]

London
How Fluor Fights it Out with Areva
	Competing with France's Areva for several major nuclear energy contracts in the United Kingdom, and particularly a GBP 18 million deal to decontaminate the Sellafield power station, the Fluor Corporation appears to have marked an important point. (...) [ 174 words ] [ €5 ]

Zurich
KPMG Forensic Builds Up Swiss Operation
	The investigative arm of the KPMG accountancy, KPMG Foprensic, has hired Swiss lawyer Philippe Fleury to run its operations in French-speaking Switzerland. (...) [ 252 words ] [ €5 ]

	Miami
	The Bizarre Trail of a Gulfstream Jet
		Recently controlled by Russian interests, a Gulfstream II business jet registered N 987SA carried suspected terrorists and then cocaine before finally crashing in Yucatan. (...) [ 367 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

London
Martin Smith
	Chaired since 2005 by the former commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police force, John Stevens (now Lord Stevens), the small British firm Quest has profited from its chairman’s contacts in the British police and is recruiting old Scotland Yard hands. (...) [ 173 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
William Parker
	After a long career at the State Department, William Parker has been hired as a consultant to SOS International, a regular sub-contractor of the U. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Washington
	Talabani’s Highly Targeted Lobbying
		Urged by Ankara and Washington to stop backing the PKK, the regional Kurdish government has hired lobbyists who previously served in Iraq. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	OECD Rules for Lobbying
		In mid-October, the OECD’s Public Governance Committee adopted a series of strict proposals to regulate the lobbying trade. (...) [ 272 words ] [ €5 ]