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SPOTLIGHT

Moscow

Russian Intelligence’s Deep Business Ties

Long focussed on the Russian federation’s political and diplomatic headaches (Chechnya, opposition groups and the like) Russia’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies - respectively FSB and SVR - are now taking an increasing interest in the economy. (...) [ 654 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Business Intelligence : Hakluyt’s New International Network [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Paris
France Drops Idea for NSC
	The new French government appears to have dropped its previous idea of forming a national security council. (...) [ 194 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Ashgari Helps Unmask Shi’ite Mole
	Thanks to information from Iranian defector Ali Reza Ashgari, the Justice Department has identified a potential Hezbollah agent in the CIA. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

London
Alex Allan
	After looking for the right person for over four months (IOL 552), Gordon Brown’s office has finally fallen on Alex Allan to succeed Richard Mottram as head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, the panel that coordinates British intelligence efforts. (...) [ 219 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran
Mohamad Hassan Akhtari
	Recalled to Tehran on Oct. 9, Mohamad Hassan Akhtari, who had served for nearly 16 years as Iran’s ambassador to Damascus, was finally reinstated in his post on Nov. (...) [ 140 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran
How Al Qods Drums Up its Money
	Iran’s military wing in the Gulf, the al Qods force of the Revolutionary Guards (Pasdarans) can count on financiers throughout the region to bankroll its operations. (...) [ 417 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Beijing
Misinformation Operation Targets Tokyo
	Following the recent death of an associate of Japan's defense attache in Beijing, colonel Haruhide Inoue, Chinese intelligence spread the rumor in the foreign diplomatic community in China that the officer had been recruited by the Chinese state security ministry, Guojia Anquanbu. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
ISIS, a Secure Defense Intranet
	To set up its secure intranet, the French government opted for a closed system (no access by the Internet) and for proprietary applications developed by Orange Business Services, an affiliate of France Telecom. (...) [ 248 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Letting Cat Partly Out of Bag
	For the first time, a director of MI5 agreed to testify in a parliamentary inquiry in Britain. On Nov. (...) [ 263 words ] [ €5 ]

Pyongyang
New Intelligence Coordinator
	The brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il has become head of North Korean intelligence and is positioning himself to take over as leader if the need arises. (...) [ 296 words ] [ €5 ]

Pristina
Different Words for Different Folks
	Because of France’s ties with the future head of Kosovo’s government, Paris finds itself in a position to play down the latter’s call for unilateral independence. (...) [ 280 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

FRANCE - NGO Used Military Transport Aircraft

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LOOKING AHEAD

Washington - Tactical Applications for Biometry

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London - DESO Comes Back to Haunt Brown

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Paris - International Military Security Seminar

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Washington
	U.S. Curries Favor with Azerbaijan
		The Bush administration has dropped proceedings against an official involved in privatising the oil industry in Azerbaijan, Washington’s new ally against terrorism. (...) [ 268 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Corporate Role in Post Conflict Areas
		Engaged in Ivory Coast and Afghanistan, and shortly in Sudan, the French Army is thinking of putting its ties with the private sector on a formal footing to facilitate reconstruction operations. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

London
New Military Lobby
	A group made up of former British officers, the United Kingdom National Defense Association (UKNDA), has been working since the beginning of the month to promote an increase in Britain’s defense budget. (...) [ 204 words ] [ €5 ]

Geneva
Mentors for Pictet’s Security Fund
	Set up last year by the private Swiss bank Pictet & Cie, the LUX-Security fund specializing in homeland security (IOL 534), has recruited Doron Bergerbest-Eilon to sit on its advisory board. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Richard Clarke’s Poor Investment
	Founded in the spring of 2006 to invest in security (IOL 519), the fund Good Harbor Partners Acquisition, a subsidiary of the firm Good Harbor Consulting that was set up by Richard Clarke, former anti-terrorism adviser to president George W. (...) [ 356 words ] [ €5 ]

	Paris
	Deripaska Under Magnifying Glass
		A report on the origin of Oleg Deripaska’s fortune recently tweaked the curiosity of the Paris authorities concerning the Russian oligarch’s assets in France. (...) [ 393 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
John Schlosser
	Previously the head of the office of regional affairs in the U. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €1,5 ]

New York
Michael Ramos
	Nardello & Co., a business intelligence outfit founded last year in London by Daniel Nardello after he broke up with his former partner Bart Schwartz, is continuing to flesh out its American branch. (...) [ 156 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Paris
	Will Tighter NATO Link Be Profitable?
		France believes its return to NATO’s integrated military command could add to its business with the Alliance. (...) [ 284 words ] [ €5 ]

	Washington
	Tracking Down Arab Banks in Iran
		After cutting off Iran’s sources of funding in Iran in Europe, the U.S. Treasury Department has switched its gun sights to banks in Gulf that work with Tehran. (...) [ 273 words ] [ €5 ]