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SPOTLIGHT

Washington/Tehran

Financial War Escalates

President George W. Bush's trip to the Gulf in mid-January helped the Treasury Department to turn up the heat on financial institutions in the region suspected of being soft on Iran. On its side, Tehran is pulling out all the tricks to sidestep American obstacles, to the point that some officials in Washington are beginning to doubt the effectiveness of sanctions. (...) [ 671 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Kiev : The Tip of the Mogilevich Iceberg [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Paris
Looking for the Right Word
	In preferring the concept of a “fragile state” to that of a “failed state,” as used in the English-language world, the French foreign ministry is seeking to pay priority to preventive action. (...) [ 226 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
An Appointment that Worries Ankara
	The man who has succeeded Alcee Hastings on the House’s permanent select committee on intelligence is a strong defender of the Armenian community. (...) [ 235 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

London
David Pepper
	The boss of Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), David Pepper, is about to retire. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
John Perren
	The FBI is continuing to flesh out its executive team that deals with anti-terrorism issues and operations. (...) [ 185 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Pyongyang
Kim Jong-il’s Master Spy
	To safeguard its ties with the all-powerful boss of North Korean intelligence, Kim Yang-gon, Seoul didn’t hesitate to fire the director of its National Intelligence Service (NIS). (...) [ 319 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Beijing
A Russian Mole in Naicho
	The Tokyo police force's Public Security Bureau last week handed prosecutors the results of a preliminary inquiry into an official in the 2nd department (international relations) of Naicho, the intelligence service of prime minister Yasuo Fukuda. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €5 ]

Brussels
What did the Intelligence Agencies Know about SWIFT affair?
	Discussed by both houses of Belgium's parliament, the latest report of the permanent Committee R that oversees Belgian intelligence services devoted a lot of lineage to the SWIFT affair. (...) [ 304 words ] [ €5 ]

Beirut
Grevious Loss for Domestic Security
	The bomb blast that killed captain Wissam Eid in Beirut on Jan. 25 deprived the Interior Security Force, Lebanon’s last well-organized security organization, of a major figure in its intelligence service. (...) [ 231 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
A Three-Ringed Spy Circus
	Major Chinese shows staged in foreign countries are used as a cover by Chinese intelligence. (...) [ 298 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Geospatial Open Source Intelligence
	European intelligence agencies are trying to catch up with their American counterparts in using open source geographic tools. (...) [ 256 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

GEORGIA - Brinkmanship with Moscow

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LOOKING AHEAD

Washington - Detecting the Drug Cartel’s Mini Submarines

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Paris - Seminar on IED’s

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Kiev - Anti-Gazprom Alliance

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Washington
	Wolfowitz’s Sleuths Eased Out
		The bosses of the World Bank’s anti-corruption unit who were pampered by former president Paul Wolfowitz are leaving the institution that is now run by Robert Zoellick. (...) [ 204 words ] [ €5 ]

	Beijing
	Chinese Pitfall for Areva
		Beijing has pulled an old corruption case out of the cupboard to turn up the heat on France’s Areva group and its partners. (...) [ 249 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

Vancouver
A Video Game Specialist at IPSA
	The Canadian-American investigative and security concern IPSA International has inaugurated an intellectual property investigations department at its headquarters in Vancouver and appointed Canada’s Robert Hunter to run it. (...) [ 218 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Booz Allen’s Intelligence Business Up for Sale
	The Booz Allen Hamilton firm owned by its 300 partners is thinking of selling off its governmental consultancy business that works for the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies. (...) [ 285 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Labour Peer Takes Up Work with Moscow’s Mouthpiece
	A lobbyist for both the Kremlin and the state-owned Russian gas behemoth Gazprom, the British concern Gavin Anderson & Co, an affiliate of Omnicom, has just recruited Peter Truscott. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €5 ]

	London
	The New Arms Seller
		On the ashes of DESO, George Brown’s government has formed a new department to promote the wares of Britain’s defense industry abroad. (...) [ 376 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

London
Stuart Poole-Robb
	Chief executive of the business intelligence firm Merchant International Group (MIG), Stuart Poole-Robb left the firm last week, according to our sources. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Alan Wade
	Serving successively as the CIA’s director of communications, director of security and finally chief information officer, Alan Wade has just been named to the board of advisers of the consultancy Abraxas Corporation. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	Paris
	Export_armament.gov
		Two computer portals now make it quicker and simpler to examine military export orders. (...) [ 281 words ] [ €5 ]

	Brussels
	Curtain Falls on Electragate Affair
		Magistrate Cecile Florival handed down a finding in mid-January that satisfied the protagonists in an affair that caused a stir in Belgium. (...) [ 291 words ] [ €5 ]