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656

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Issue no. 656 dated 12 january, 2012

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FRANCE

UraMin: Areva looks for someone to blame

Seven months after Luc Oursel took over as head of Areva, the embattled French nuclear group and its former CEO Anne Lauvergeon – dubbed “Atomic Anne” - are at war. Areva has launched an internal probe into Lauvergeon’s responsibility for its acquisition of the Canadian uranium mining company UraMin.(...) [ 529 words ] [€8]

FRANCE / LIBYA
Hughes de Samie

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FRANCE
Francois Martineau

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UNITED STATES
Kathryn Bigelow

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Mapping YouTube videos for the intelligence world

The U.S. intelligence services are looking to process information contained in online amateur video footage more swiftly.(...) [ 297 words ] [€5]

Loyd’s shoots for Eastern bloc skies

With its outdated industry and equipment, the former Eastern Bloc is a promising marketplace for aeronautics companies, a number of whom rely on Loyd’s Aviation Group’s contacts in the region.(...) [ 408 words ] [€5]

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GREY AREAS

AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN

ISI takes key role in Afghan negotiations

Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence is behind the Afghan Taliban’s decision to open a bureau in Qatar to negotiate with the United States.(...) [ 334 words ] [€5]

FRANCE

COSSI new home for cyber-defence

Protection from cyber attacks against the state has become a top priority in France. Despite austerity measures in other areas, the government is sparing no cost.(...) [ 189 words ] [€5]

EUROPE

Alliance against Anonymous

Faced with the threat of computer attacks by the hackers’ group Anonymous following its adoption of a new constitution removing essential “checks and balances” at the beginning of the year, Viktor Orban’s Hungary has turned to Europe.(...) [ 114 words ] [FREE]

RUSSIA

Gorbachev rattles the siloviki

When he recently advised Vladimir Putin “not to bid for a third mandate as president of the Russian Federation”, Mikhail Gorbachev was also aiming his words at(...) [ 212 words ] [€5]

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RUSSIA - Igor Sergun officially replaced Aleksandr Shlyakhturov as the head of the GRU military(...) [ 55 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED KINGDOM - Peter Gibson, the controller of British intelligence who is carrying out an investigation(...) [ 87 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED KINGDOM - Cyber-warriors hold conference Rear-Admiral Arnaud Coustilliere, who was appointed head of the French defence staff’s(...) [ 91 words ] [€1,5]

CHINA / RUSSIA - Influence struggle in Vietnam Vietnam’s intelligence community is playing China and Russia off against one another(...) [ 61 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED KINGDOM - DGI’s roll call of speakers The Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) conference, which takes place in London on(...) [ 124 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - The CIA announced on December 23 that after a four-month investigation, its inspector-general(...) [ 96 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - The NGA is being threatened with drastic cuts to one of its flagship programmes, Enhanced(...) [ 137 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - Carte blanche for cyber-war A paragraph in the 2012 defence budget approved by Congress last year gives nothing less(...) [ 91 words ] [€1,5]

EGYPT

Brotherhood’s intelligence plans

Anticipating a big win in the general election, the Muslim Brotherhood wants an overhaul of the security services that were hostile to it.(...) [ 178 words ] [€5]

IRAQ

Baathists’ last stand

The sectarian violence that erupted when the last U.S. soldiers left Iraq at the end of 2011 was perpetrated by a nebulous collection of groups loyal to Izzat Ibrahim(...) [ 173 words ] [€5]

IRAN - The Al Qods Force, the Guardians of the Revolution’s clandestine operations unit, will(...) [ 115 words ] [€1,5]

PALESTINE - Nidal Abu Dukan took over from Diab al-Ali on January 3 as head of National Security,(...) [ 51 words ] [€1,5]

SYRIA - “Shi’ite Zarqawi” in Damascus Back in Bagdad amid much pomp at the beginning of the year – he had been in exile in(...) [ 130 words ] [€1,5]

NORTH KOREA

Kim Jong-un’s eminence grise

Kim Yong-chol is one of a handful of key generals helping Kim Jong-un to establish himself as North Korea’s new leader.(...) [ 335 words ] [€5]

CHINA / RUSSIA - Influence struggle in Vietnam Vietnam’s intelligence community is playing China and Russia off against one another(...) [ 61 words ] [€1,5]

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THE RED LINE

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES / ISRAEL

Broken deal threatens UAE-Israeli trade

They do not have diplomatic relations but Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi have close business ties, particularly in the security industry. An abortive deal is threatening to change all that.(...) [ 342 words ] [€5]

SWITZERLAND

All roads lead to Alp

Cited in the Areva/UraMin affair, Alp Services is one of Europe’s most established corporate intelligence firms.(...) [ 194 words ] [€5]

FRANCE

(ES)² protects H2O

A consultancy owned by Suez Environnement’s former security chief advises utilities companies on natural disaster and terrorism risk management.(...) [ 186 words ] [€5]

FRANCE

Vigneron drops Thales’ agents

Thales CEO Luc Vigneron has not only stopped the group using agents on export contracts, he is refusing to honour existing deals.(...) [ 321 words ] [€5]

FRANCE

Kristoffersen upped at Total

Economist Helle Kristoffersen was appointed Deputy Vice-President, Strategy and Business Intelligence, in charge of the strategic and corporate intelligence departments,(...) [ 167 words ] [€5]

FRANCE

Monitoring rail thieves

Reseau Ferre de France (RFF), which owns some 30,000kms of rail track in France, is mobilising to protect its infrastructure.(...) [ 198 words ] [€5]

FRANCE - Risk&Co, the security and economic intelligence firm chaired by Bruno Delamotte, has(...) [ 64 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED KINGDOM - Global watchdog for private security sector On March 6 a preparatory conference will take place in London ahead of the establishment(...) [ 91 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES

Fedcaps, cyberwarfare takes two

Founded two years ago (IOL 612), the private equity fund FedCap Partners, headed by Rick Knop and Leslee Belluchie, closed the acquisition of a sixth federal government(...) [ 158 words ] [€5]

UNITED STATES - FGIS, the company of former FBI director Louis Freeh, which was designated to handle(...) [ 130 words ] [€1,5]

CANADA - GardaWorld, the international arm of the Canadian security firm Garda, has become embroiled(...) [ 88 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - FrontierMEDEX, the medical assistance and security group that resulted from the merger(...) [ 66 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - Stroz Friedberg, the electronic investigation company, has just recruited former prosecutor(...) [ 140 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - Academi, the former Blackwater, has written to Intelligence Online to signal that its(...) [ 72 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES - Register of sales agents in the pipeline The Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) is poised to amend(...) [ 95 words ] [€1,5]

UNITED STATES / PUNTLAND - Mystery anti-piracy program Stephen Heifetz, a lawyer with Steptoe & Johnson, has signed a contract with the autonomous(...) [ 138 words ] [€1,5]

INDIA / ISRAEL - IAI wins Indian contracts totalling $1.4 billion While MBDA scooped a €950 million contract last week to equip Indian Mirage 2000 with(...) [ 79 words ] [€1,5]

INDIA / ISRAEL - IAI wins Indian contracts totalling $1.4 billion While MBDA scooped a €950 million contract last week to equip Indian Mirage 2000 with(...) [ 79 words ] [€1,5]

BAHRAIN - More experts for the police Having recruited two former Western police chiefs in December to reform the local security(...) [ 131 words ] [€1,5]

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