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SPOTLIGHT

Paris

DGSE and DCRI Broach the Sakozy Era

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a meeting of the Conseil National du Renseignement (CNR, National Intelligence Council) to examine the attack carried out by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai. The French government was clearly shaken by the terrorist assault. (...) [ 695 words ] [ €8 ]

Networks & organizations

Washington : American Intelligence Takes Some Hints from Shell [ FREE ]

Political Intelligence

Riyadh
Abdallah Opens Up to Sarkozy
	Long held at arms length by the Saudi regime, France has become important to Riyadh once again as a result of its improved ties with Syria. (...) [ 258 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Obama Seeks Squeaky Clean Spies
	Although he is ready to work with diplomats and military men from the Bush administration, Barack Obama is intent on triggering a shake-up in intelligence. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Robert Mueller 3rd
	Unlike the heads of American foreign intelligence agencies (see opposite), Robert Mueller, the FBI director who was named by George W. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Tehran
Sadeq Mahsouli
	There has been quite a turnover of interior ministers in the run-up to Iran’s presidential elections next June. (...) [ 224 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Damascus
Syria’s Secret Nuclear Sites
	Under pressure from the United States and France the International Atomic Energy Agency is pressing ahead with its investigations in Syria. (...) [ 380 words ] [ €5 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

New Delhi
Intelligence Agencies Anticipated Attack
	The refusal of Indian prime minister Mammohan Singh to accept the resignation of his national security adviser, Mayankote Kelath Narayanan, following the deadly attacks in Mumbai last week is understandable: (...) [ 271 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
CNR Off the Starting Blocks
	France's Conseil National du Rensignement (CNR: National Intelligence Council) is already up and running even though it doesn’t yet exist from a legal standpoint (see P. (...) [ 234 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Intelligence Agencies Take a Look at On-Line Games
	A research group set up by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to study the potential of on-line games like World of Warcraft or the Sims as models for military simulation was due to be held on Dec. (...) [ 181 words ] [ €5 ]

Beijing
Death of A Fake Spy
	Last week’s execution of scientist Wo Weihan may have had a lot more to do with foreign relations than espionage. (...) [ 270 words ] [ €5 ]

Islamabad
Lashkars Take on the Taliban
	No sooner had he taken over as head of Centcom than general David Petraeus set to work at turning Pashtuns in the tribal zones against the Taliban. (...) [ 275 words ] [ €5 ]

SIGNPOSTS

FRANCE - ODAS Moves Beyond Saudi Arabia

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QATAR - Sarkozy Pushes for Rafale

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LOOKING AHEAD

Riyadh - Medical Treatment for Sultan in US

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Washington - Lifting Some Restrictions on Encryption Exports

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Paris - An Atlas of Warfare

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Business Intelligence and Lobbying

	Paris
	Total Hires DGSE Staffer
		Total has long employed former staff of France’s foreign intelligence agency but confined them to security functions. Now it is hiring them for business intelligence work. (...) [ 253 words ] [ €5 ]

	Kiev
	A Lawyer Vanishes in Paris
		Kidnapped in daylight in Paris and released six days later, lawyer Yuri Gaysinski specializes in sensitive cases. (...) [ 193 words ] [ €5 ]

FIRMS

Los Angeles
Sion Resources In Bid to Protect Stars
	Specializing in the protection of high net worth individuals (the Gettys, the ruling Al Thani family in Qatar, Saudi Arabia’ Abdul Aziz and the like), the small British private security concern Sion Resources has just opened an office in Los Angeles in a bid to drum up contracts in the film industry and in the high tech field. (...) [ 131 words ] [ €5 ]

Washington
Iraqi Political Parties in Lobbying Over-Drive
	With the Iraqi government last week approving the withdrawal of American forces in 2011, each of the ruling parties in the ruling coalition in Baghdad has lined up a lobbyist in the American capital. (...) [ 227 words ] [ €5 ]

Paris
Gallice Tries its Hand at Maritime Security
	Unlike their British and American counterparts, private security companies in France remain highly cautious when it comes to maritime security and specially because international law governing the sphere remains vague, to say the least. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €5 ]

London
Hedge Funds Seek to Prevent Leaks
	Laid low by the financial crisis, hedge funds in the United Kingdom are trying every dodge to ensure that nobody leaks information regarding their financial situation. (...) [ 148 words ] [ €5 ]

	Moscow
	Kremlin Plays a Varied Game
		Worried over the impact of the world-wide crisis on Russia’s economy, Moscow has forced some oligarchs to settle their differences while allowing others to continue fighting it out. (...) [ 417 words ] [ €5 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Tony Smeraglinolo
	After overhauling its operations from top to bottom, the private security concern Dyncorp has put its highly strategic international security services division into the hands of Tony Smeraglinolo. (...) [ 137 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Washington
Darryl Garrett
	The former scientific director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) (which has since become the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency), Darryl Garret belongs to a discreet group of former American intelligence bosses who invest their own money in start up companies through the New Vantage Group equity fund. (...) [ 212 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	San Francisco
	OSO, a Gum-Shoe for Law Firms
		Over the past 17 years a discreet business intelligence firm, OSO Group, has worked in the shadows for some of the biggest American law concerns. (...) [ 270 words ] [ €5 ]

	London
	Who Pays the Pirates’ Ransom?
		To secure the release of their vessels attacked in the Gulf of Aden, shipowners retain the services of discreet envoys to negotiate ransoms with the pirates. (...) [ 273 words ] [ €5 ]