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NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

President Bill Clinton's executive order in late January to freeze the US assets of 18 individuals and a dozen organizations [...]

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Spotlight | Europe, United States
NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

According to analysts close to Western intelligence agencies the probability that terrorist gangs will resort to using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons to commit attacks is growing ever stronger. That fear has prompted the CIA to work specially since last [.

Subscribers only 02.12.1999

United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

In conjunction with a new British publishing house specializing in [...]

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

According to several Intelligence Newsletter sources in Israel and Washington, the forthcoming departure of CIA station chief Stanley Moskovics in Tel Aviv will mark a significant change in the U.S. agency's policy towards Israeli and Arab negotiators.

Subscribers only 23.09.1999

Middle East
INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

An investigation into an explosion in the basement of a two-floor building at Hebron on Aug. 16 has put the [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

Egypt
MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

A leader of Egypt's Jihad, Mahmud Sayyid Jaballah, currently jailed in Canada, will find out by August 16 whether the [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Egypt
ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Without much hope of getting Washington to agree, the Egyptian authorities have just asked the United States to extradite Ali [...]

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

Egypt
JIHAD MOUNTS COUNTER-ATTACK

Ayman al Zawahiri, leader of Egypt's Jihad, recently held a series of meetings with his closest associates in the Jalalabad [...]

Subscribers only 22.04.1999

Middle East, United Kingdom
LONDON SLAPS JIHAD, SPARES JAMAA

Scotland Yard's arrest of six Egyptian fundamentalists and a Saudi Arabian national last week confirmed that the U.S. inquiry into [...]

Subscribers only 01.10.1998

United States
PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

A recently-released report from the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs that investigated Gulf War illnesses has criticized reports drawn up [...]

Subscribers only 17.09.1998

Israel
FAKE BREAK-OUT, REAL KILLING

Despite official denials there are clear reasons to believe the killing of the brothers Adel and Imad Awadallah by a [...]

Subscribers only 17.09.1998

United States
HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

The U.S. intelligence community's failure to provide warning of the recent Indian nuclear tests stemmed from a combination of analytical, [...]

Subscribers only 18.06.1998

Middle East
WHO KILLED HAMAS BOMBMAKER?

Although he appealed directly to Yasser Arafat during the latter's visit to Saudi Arabia and to sheik Ahmed Yassin, the [...]

Subscribers only 23.04.1998

Spotlight | United States
CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Just days after CIA chief George Tenet was reported to be planning to reduce the size, budget and role of the CIA's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) he announced that he would instead double its staff and give its director more clear-cut [.

Subscribers only 06.11.1997

Spotlight | Israel
HAMAS TORN BETWEEN TALK AND STRUGGLE

In the wake of the double bomb attack in Jerusalem on July 31 leading Palestinian security and intelligence officials remain divided over how much they should cooperate with their Israeli counterparts in Shin Bet. The head of the General Intelligence [.

Subscribers only 28.08.1997

Spotlight | United States
CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

In its first major shakeup since 1981, the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence has cut the number of directorate offices from nine to five. The overhaul results from a review undertaken by John Gannon, deputy Director for Intelligence, and [.

Subscribers only 30.04.1997

Palestine, United States
CIA TELLS IT STRAIGHT TO ARAFAT

Intelligence Newsletter understands that secret talks which Yasser Arafat held in Gaza on April 9 with U.S. and Israeli intelligence [...]

Subscribers only 17.04.1997

Europe, Middle East
NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

At least 2,000 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium are currently being stocked in an "under-protected and under-regulated [...]

Subscribers only 27.03.1997

Spotlight | Iran, Iraq
KURDISTAN THE ARENA FOR IRAN-IRAQ WAR

The factional fighting between Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Jalal Talabani's Kurdistan Patriotic Union (KPU) should be seen essentially as a new war between Iran and Iraq with Kurds serving as surrogates. A year ago Tehran infiltrated between [.

Subscribers only 05.09.1996

United States
NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

CIA director John Deutch recently told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that the government had no evidence that any [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1996

European Union, United States
EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

When a working group set up by the European Union, the U.S. and Canada on Iran meets in Rome in [...]

Subscribers only 25.01.1996

United States
U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

The American intelligence community has come to the uncomfortable conclusion that the U.S. is ill-prepared to deal with the threat [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.1995

Lebanon, United States
HOW CIA KIDNAPPERS WERE FOILED

An internal report by Lebanon's Sureté Générale (Al Amn al-Aam) drafted in July gives a detailed account of how an [...]

Subscribers only 26.10.1995

United States
ISLAMIST TERRORISTS TARGET U.S.

Working on detailed intelligence obtained by undercover agents who have succeeded in penetrating radical Islamic terrorist groups in the U.S. [...]

Subscribers only 31.08.1995

United States
BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

Citing the need to stamp out terrorism and organized crime, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are showing fresh interest [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 31.08.1995

United States
CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

When he paid an official visit on the CIA on July 14 just two months after the arrival of a [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1995

United States
ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

The U.S. defence department has enrolled the analytical skills of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to help [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

Pakistan
PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON AL-ANSAR

An international crisis team has been set up under the powerful Pakistani interior minister Nasirullah Babar since the assassination of [...]

Subscribers only 29.03.1995

Middle East
MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN

Bahrain's foreign minister, sheik Mohamed ben Mubarak al-Khalifa, has pinned the blame on both Iran's Savama and Lebanon's Hezbollah for [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

United Kingdom
FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD

Unable to pry any information from MI6, members of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FASC) who wanted information on [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

Lebanon
SECRET WAR IN LEBANON

Sources close to Lebanon's Sureté Générale don't believe for a [...]

Subscribers only 18.01.1995

Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

The advent of a Republican majority in Congress has reassured the U.S. intelligence community that it will obtain both the funds and encouragement needed to pursue its post-Cold War objectives. Top intelligence executives had feared that resources would have been [.

Subscribers only 18.01.1995

Spotlight | France, Middle East
CRUCIAL YEAR UNFOLDS FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS

The new year will usher in an era of violent conflict across the globe between Moslem fundamentalist movements backed by Iran and both Western nations and conservative Moslem governments. Following the hijack of the Air France Airbus at Algiers airport [.

Subscribers only 04.01.1995

Israel
LIFTING NUCLEAR SECRECY?

The issue of controlling and limiting weapons of mass destruction has taken a back seat to diplomatic maneuvers between Israel [...]

Subscribers only 14.12.1994

United States
SURGE IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM FEARED

American terrorism experts, including government counter-terrorist aides, are convinced that a particularly fierce form of fudamentalist Islamic violence will unfurl [...]

Subscribers only 14.12.1994

United States
THE SUPER TERRORISM AGE

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) forms the most dangerous threat to the post-Cold War world, according to [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.1994

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

The U.S. Departments of Treasury and Energy are emerging as ever-more important players alongside the traditional intelligence services in identifying and tracking down terrorist organizations and their state backers as well as fighting the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological [.

Subscribers only 16.11.1994

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

The Clinton administration has recently had to assure lawmakers that its new anti-drug policy will focus on disrupting drug production and trafficking organizations at the source in order to get additional money from Congress for counternarcotic activities.

Subscribers only 21.09.1994

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

If the Cold War motto of American intelligence was "Beat the Reds" that has been replaced by "Follow the Money." The U.S. Treasury Department has become a new, fully-fledged member of the American intelligence community on equal footing with the [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 08.06.1994

United States
FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

According to well-placed Washington intelligence sources, the American financial intelligence service FinCEN (I.N. n. 235 & 236) has turned up [...]

Subscribers only 06.04.1994

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Below the Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN, see "Spotlight" in [...]

Subscribers only 09.03.1994

Spotlight | United States
FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

One of the world's most technology-intensive and least known intelligence services, the American Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been functioning since October 1993 without a director after moving into its new headquarters in Vienna, Virginia, near the CIA in [.

Subscribers only 23.02.1994

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Ukraine Jamming wars

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France Information wars in the Caucasus

Europe, Russia War in the 'grey zone': Russian intelligence preparations in Europe

Insiders | China Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

United States NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

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Spotlight | Europe, United States NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

Spotlight | Middle East, United States NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

Middle East INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

Egypt MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

Egypt ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Egypt JIHAD MOUNTS COUNTER-ATTACK

Middle East, United Kingdom LONDON SLAPS JIHAD, SPARES JAMAA

United States PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

Israel FAKE BREAK-OUT, REAL KILLING

United States HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

Middle East WHO KILLED HAMAS BOMBMAKER?

Spotlight | United States CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Spotlight | Israel HAMAS TORN BETWEEN TALK AND STRUGGLE

Spotlight | United States CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

Palestine, United States CIA TELLS IT STRAIGHT TO ARAFAT

Europe, Middle East NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

Spotlight | Iran, Iraq KURDISTAN THE ARENA FOR IRAN-IRAQ WAR

United States NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

European Union, United States EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

United States U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

Lebanon, United States HOW CIA KIDNAPPERS WERE FOILED

United States ISLAMIST TERRORISTS TARGET U.S.

United States BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

United States CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

United States ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

Pakistan PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON AL-ANSAR

Middle East MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN

United Kingdom FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD

Lebanon SECRET WAR IN LEBANON

Spotlight | United States U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

Spotlight | France, Middle East CRUCIAL YEAR UNFOLDS FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS

Israel LIFTING NUCLEAR SECRECY?

United States SURGE IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM FEARED

United States THE SUPER TERRORISM AGE

Spotlight | United States NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

Spotlight | United States NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

Spotlight | United States INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

United States FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Spotlight | United States FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

Spotlight | Pakistan THE "AFGHAN BOOMERANG

United States COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States TEHERAN'S WARNING

Spotlight | United States HOSTAGES: IAN SPIRO'S SECRETS

Israel BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

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University reform under the watchful eye of security

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Jamming wars

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

Europe, Russia
War in the 'grey zone': Russian intelligence preparations in Europe

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

United States
NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

Spotlight | Europe, United States
NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

Middle East
INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

Egypt
MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

Egypt
ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Egypt
JIHAD MOUNTS COUNTER-ATTACK

Middle East, United Kingdom
LONDON SLAPS JIHAD, SPARES JAMAA

United States
PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

Israel
FAKE BREAK-OUT, REAL KILLING

United States
HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

Middle East
WHO KILLED HAMAS BOMBMAKER?

Spotlight | United States
CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Spotlight | Israel
HAMAS TORN BETWEEN TALK AND STRUGGLE

Spotlight | United States
CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

Palestine, United States
CIA TELLS IT STRAIGHT TO ARAFAT

Europe, Middle East
NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

Spotlight | Iran, Iraq
KURDISTAN THE ARENA FOR IRAN-IRAQ WAR

United States
NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

European Union, United States
EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

United States
U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

Lebanon, United States
HOW CIA KIDNAPPERS WERE FOILED

United States
ISLAMIST TERRORISTS TARGET U.S.

United States
BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

United States
CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

United States
ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

Pakistan
PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON AL-ANSAR

Middle East
MANAMA FINGERS TEHRAN

United Kingdom
FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD

Lebanon
SECRET WAR IN LEBANON

Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

Spotlight | France, Middle East
CRUCIAL YEAR UNFOLDS FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS

Israel
LIFTING NUCLEAR SECRECY?

United States
SURGE IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM FEARED

United States
THE SUPER TERRORISM AGE

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States
FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Spotlight | United States
FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

Spotlight | Pakistan
THE "AFGHAN BOOMERANG

United States
COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States
TEHERAN'S WARNING

Spotlight | United States
HOSTAGES: IAN SPIRO'S SECRETS

Israel
BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING