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Issue no. 609 dated 14 january, 2010

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FRANCE

Sarkozy’s Political Gift to Medvedev

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed to allow Mistral-class amphibious ships to be sold to the Russian Navy. According to Intelligence Online sources at the Elysee Palace, the decision will be announced in March when Dmitri Medevedev visits Paris.(...) [ 577 words ] [€7]

FRANCE
Olivier Buquen

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UNITED STATES
John McLaughlin

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UNITED KINGDOM
John Sawers

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A Drone You Can Fly Even With an I-Phone

The French group Parrot has launched an application to remotely control tiny unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with an I-Phone.(...) [ 339 words ] [€4]

Guardians of China's Virtual Great Wall

A court case has identified a number of companies that design systems to control China’s Internet, and their links with the Chinese armed forces.(...) [ 368 words ] [€4]

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GRAY AREAS

UNITED STATES/JORDAN

Washington-Amman Tie Suffers Severe Blow

By turning a Jordanian agent assigned to infiltrate their ranks on behalf of the CIA, Afghanistan’s Jihadist have jeopardised U.S.-Jordanian cooperation.(...) [ 366 words ] [€4]

FRANCE

Squarcini Breaches Walls at DCRI

Federic Veaux will take up his functions as second-in-command of the French domestic intelligence agency DCRI on Jan. 18.(...) [ 218 words ] [€4]

SWITZERLAND

Centralizing Intelligence Effort

On January 1, Switzerland’s domestic intelligence agency Service d’Analyse et de Prevention (SAP) merged with the country’s foreign agency Service de Renseignement Strategique (SRS) to form the Swiss Office Federal du Renseignement.(...) [ 149 words ] [€4]

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FRANCE - Tracfin, the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering unit, may well be reorganized.(...) [ 119 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED KINGDOM/YEMEN - MI6 and British special forces are taking part in training Yemeni soldiers.(...) [ 80 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE - EADS Supplies NGA If EADS hasn’t managed to sell its tanker aircraft to the US Air Force, the European(...) [ 95 words ] [€1,3]

FRANCE - Military Networks to be Centralized To put a halt to the fragmentation of French military information systems, which helped(...) [ 88 words ] [€1,3]

YEMEN/UNITED STATES

Al Qaeda's Leadership Line-Up

The Islamic radicals who took refuge in Yemen now see the entire world as their battleground.(...) [ 346 words ] [€4]

UNITED STATES/AFGHANISTAN

News Hounds to Spy on Taliban?

A report published in early January by the official in charge of military intelligence in Afghanistan, major general Michael Flynn, was widely viewed as a slap in the face of U.(...) [ 137 words ] [€4]

UNITED STATES - The CIA seems to have a fight on its hands to prove the importance of its new Center(...) [ 100 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES - The PIAB is now back at full strength. After picking former Republican and Democrat senators(...) [ 101 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES/EUROPE - EADS Supplies NGA If EADS hasn’t managed to sell its tanker aircraft to the US Air Force, the European(...) [ 95 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES - Pen is Mightier Than Sword The American group Campco, which holds the Uzi franchise in the United States, has just(...) [ 72 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES/AFGHANISTAN

News Hounds to Spy on Taliban?

A report published in early January by the official in charge of military intelligence in Afghanistan, major general Michael Flynn, was widely viewed as a slap in the face of U.(...) [ 137 words ] [€4]

EGYPT - Omar Suleiman, chief of Egypt's counter-espionage agency (Mukhabarat al Amat) paid a(...) [ 71 words ] [€1,3]

CHINA

Anti-Minority Task Force

The Communist Party’s central committee has formed a unit dedicated to counter-insurrection.(...) [ 207 words ] [€4]

UNITED STATES/AFGHANISTAN

News Hounds to Spy on Taliban?

A report published in early January by the official in charge of military intelligence in Afghanistan, major general Michael Flynn, was widely viewed as a slap in the face of U.(...) [ 137 words ] [€4]

CHINA

Triads & Intelligence Agencies Link Up

Western intelligence services have noted that Chinese mobsters are increasingly active in Africa and that China’s intelligence agencies, notably Guoanbu and the 2nd Department of the People’s Liberation Army, don’t shrink at working with them.(...) [ 212 words ] [€4]

INDIA - Giant Data Bases Planned In a speech on December 23, Indian interior minister P.(...) [ 131 words ] [€1,3]

SOUTH KOREA - The 51th Parallel in Cyber Space Early this week the South Korean army inaugurated its new Cyber Warfare Center which has a budget of 3.(...) [ 128 words ] [€1,3]

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THE RED LINE

ISRAEL

No More Commisions for Israeli Companies?

Soon to become a member of the OECD, Israel has espoused the organization’s anti-corruption Convention. But that decision could hamstring Israel’s defense industry.(...) [ 334 words ] [€4]

UNITED KINGDOM

Pax Trades in Rifle for Shovel

A firm run by a former executive of Kroll Security in Iraq is diversifying into construction work in the war zone.(...) [ 193 words ] [€4]

UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM

Chertoff in Tie with U.K. Listed Firm

The former secretary of the U.S. homeland security department, Michael Chertoff, has thrown his lot in with the British fund Blue Star.(...) [ 196 words ] [€4]

RUSSIA

Madrid Probe A Thorn in Cherney's Side

Intelligence Online understands Russian businessman Michael Cherney, who is fighting for a bigger share of Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal group, called off a business trip to the United Kingdom at the last moment in late December for fear of being questioned by the British police.(...) [ 178 words ] [€4]

FRANCE

Will 2010 be Rafale’s Lucky Year?

Speaking on Jan. 7 before Dassault Aviation’s works committee, the company’s chief executive, Charles Edelstenne, listed the different countries he viewed as export prospects for the group’s Rafale fighter aircraft.(...) [ 228 words ] [€4]

FRANCE - Hugues Nagy who was deputy director of operations for Geos in London, left the company(...) [ 68 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED KINGDOM - Oxford Analytica is once again seeking a chief executive. Alfred Rollington, the former(...) [ 75 words ] [€1,3]

FRANCE - Securymind, a security engineering concern founded by former naval commando officer Luc(...) [ 107 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED KINGDOM - Quest, an investigative firm headed by the former chief of the Metropolitan Police, John(...) [ 76 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES/SLOVAKIA - Bratislava Snubs Fund Set up by former officials of the U.S. Energy Department, the American equity fund Cappa(...) [ 94 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED KINGDOM - BAE Not Guilty or Innocent Under attack by one of its American stakeholders, the pension fund for employees of Harper(...) [ 152 words ] [€1,3]

SAUDI ARABIA/RUSSIA - Looking Eastwards for Fresh Rewards The Saudi royal family is continuing to invest heavily in Russia's oil industry.(...) [ 128 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM

Chertoff in Tie with U.K. Listed Firm

The former secretary of the U.S. homeland security department, Michael Chertoff, has thrown his lot in with the British fund Blue Star.(...) [ 196 words ] [€4]

UNITED STATES

Rosetti Turns Hand to Finance

The former vice chairman of Kroll, Joseph Rosetti, is the public face of a particularly mysterious financial operation in the Bahamas.(...) [ 246 words ] [€4]

UNITED STATES - Jami Miscik, president and vice chairman of the consultancy Kissinger Associates, was(...) [ 94 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES/SLOVAKIA - Bratislava Snubs Fund Set up by former officials of the U.S. Energy Department, the American equity fund Cappa(...) [ 94 words ] [€1,3]

ISRAEL/UNITED STATES - ICTS Waved Terrorist Through The firms Pro Check and I-Sec, both of which are affiliates of the Israeli-Dutch concern(...) [ 92 words ] [€1,3]

UNITED STATES - Awkward Time for Brennan Following the abortive attack on Northwest Airlines’ Flight 253, the White House’s adviser(...) [ 89 words ] [€1,3]

BAHRAIN

Crown Prince, Anti-Corruption Scourge

In a bid to undermine Bahrain’s prime minister, the crown prince has accused his associates of corruption.(...) [ 339 words ] [€4]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - KPMG is advising banks owed money by Dubai World, the United Arab Emirates group that(...) [ 141 words ] [€1,3]

ISRAEL/UNITED STATES - ICTS Waved Terrorist Through The firms Pro Check and I-Sec, both of which are affiliates of the Israeli-Dutch concern(...) [ 92 words ] [€1,3]

SAUDI ARABIA/RUSSIA - Looking Eastwards for Fresh Rewards The Saudi royal family is continuing to invest heavily in Russia's oil industry.(...) [ 128 words ] [€1,3]

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