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SPOTLIGHT

Intelligence

Emirates Want Their Observation Satellite, too

Laid low by the financial crisis, the promoters of private satellite constellations hope they can raise funds in the United Arab Emirates to keep their projects on track. With their coffers bulging with petrodollars, the UAE, like all of its neighboring countries, remains under permanent surveillance by all of the Western powers but lacks an independent, operational observation satellite capacity of its own. (...) [ 665 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Washington : The Obama Campaign’s Intelligence Advisors [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Tbilisi
Merabishvili Now the Key Figure
	Georgian interior minister Vano Merabishvili emerged stronger than ever from the clash with Russia in August. He is to oversee European assistance for reconstruction. (...) [ 177 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
The Senate’s New Security Profile
	If Joe Biden is elected vice president as Barack Obama’s running mate on Nov. 4, a game of musical chairs will proceed on key Senate committees. (...) [ 252 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Stacey Dixon
	A specialist in image intelligence, 37-year-old Stacey Dixon has just been appointed director for the budget on the staff of the House’s permanent select committee on intelligence. (...) [ 186 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Beirut
Hashim Safieddine
	Hezbollah’s eighth Congress elected secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah to a fifth term in office when the session ended on Oct. (...) [ 188 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Damascus
So What Happened at Sukariyeh?
	The recent American strike against a sanctuary of Iraqi Jihadists in Syria has triggered a propaganda war between the concerned parties. (...) [ 381 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Kabul
GI’s Achilles Heel: Depression
	European military intelligence agencies are taking a close look at American losses in Iraq and Afghanistan. In mid-June, 4,103 American military personnel had been killed in operations in Iraq and another 13,441 wounded (out of action for at least three days). (...) [ 238 words ] [ €5 ]

India
New Infowar Agency
	Grappling with computer attacks from the 3rd department of China’s People’s Liberation Army, India plans to set up a new security service to protect its networks. (...) [ 130 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Everybody Gets it Wrong about Ben Laden
	Known for his deliberately provocative outbursts, Alain Chouet, a former intelligence director at DGSE, has claimed in a preface to a book by Ian Hamel named the Enigme Ben Laden (Payot & Rivages) that the mastermind behind the Sept. (...) [ 192 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
US Looking at Secret Satellite Project
	After reaching an agreement with the Pentagon on a future constellation of BASIC medium-resolution satellites, the office of the director of national intelligence is pouring over another project, this time involving a very high-resolution satellite. (...) [ 87 words ] [ €5 ]

Tokyo
Crackdown on Russian Agencies
	Japan’s counter-intelligence agencies are stepping up operations against Russia’s increasingly active SVR and GRU, considered just as aggressive as the Chinese. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]

Milan
Berlusconi Protects CIA
	Silvio Berlusconi is going to have to explain how he raised the issue of state secrecy to cover special relations between Italian and U.S. intelligence. (...) [ 290 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

FRANCE - A Highly Secret Barracuda

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LOOKING AHEAD

Reykjavik - Moscow Wins a Friend for USD 4 Billion

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Washington - Clarifying the Rules between CIA and Pentagon

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London - A Taliban Emissary in UK

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Paris
	Two Licenses for Consultants
		In the works for nearly a year, a new legislative framework for business intelligence in France will be highly restrictive. (...) [ 224 words ] [ €5 ]

	London
	A Military Approach to Civil Data
		The consulting concern Mars Omega is developing the Mozaic software that adapts military intelligence practices to industrial needs. (...) [ 213 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

New York
A Head Hunter for Investigators
	Human resources keep popping up as a problem in the small world of business intelligence. Both the profile of candidates and the job market are very special and firms find it so hard to find the right recruits that they usually `end up by poaching the staff of their rivals. (...) [ 169 words ] [ €5 ]

Milan
Search for an American Detective
	Examining magistrates in Milan who are conducting an investigation into Telecom Italia are seeking to question a former CIA operative, Gianpaolo Spinelli, about the missions he carried out for the group after going into the private investigative business on his own in Italy. (...) [ 232 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Former Egideria Staffer Strikes Out Alone
	A former executive of the French business intelligence outfit Egideria headed by Yves-Michel Marti, 30-year-old Pierre-Marie Relecom has set up his own firm, Relecom and Partners. (...) [ 115 words ] [ €5 ]

Tel Aviv
A Dove Goes Into Consultancy Business
	A leading architect of the Oslo agreements in 1993 and the Geneva initiative in 2003, former diplomat Yossi Beilin has just resigned from his seat in the Knesset. (...) [ 143 words ] [ €5 ]

	Milan
	How Pirelli Tried to Scupper Kroll
		A book published last week by the former security director of Pirelli has chronicled the ins and outs of the Italian group’s battle with Kroll. (...) [ 393 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Paris
Herve Zany
	Head of the French office of Kroll until this spring (IOL 570), Herve Zany has just taken over as boss of the French branch of the Belgian financial investigation firm FIP International SA that was founded in 2005 by Belgium’s Marc Hurner. (...) [ 147 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Malcolm Fages
	A club of sorts for former American military chiefs and retirees from the Pentagon, the lobbying and consulting firm Spectrum Group has just recruited a retired vice admiral, Malcolm Fages. (...) [ 222 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	London
	Arafat’s Bankers In Fight to Bitter End
		A conflict between Palestinian tycoons Munib Masri and Said Khoury could well hit at the interests of their Western partners. (...) [ 300 words ] [ €5 ]

	Belgrade
	Gazprom Wins Gas Stake for a Song
		Russia’s Gazprom has just paid EUR 400 million for a 51% stake in NIS, Serbia’s national gas company. (...) [ 295 words ] [ €5 ]