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INTELLIGENCE NEWSLETTER
N°397 - 11/01/2001 |
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LEBANON
Black List of Fundamentalist Chiefs
In the run-up to the Sixth Congress of Lebanon’s Hezbollah that will be held at a secret venue during the last three days in January, Intelligence Newsletter has come into possession of part of a list of leaders of fundamentalist organizations considered as the most dangerous. (...). [Total : 292 mots].
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SWITZERLAND/FRANCE
Falcone Denied Resident Status
Any French national applying for a resident’s card in Switzerland who has a clean record and lots of money in his pocket normally has no problem in both landing the card and having it renewed every year. (...). [Total : 498 mots].
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FRANCE
TotalFinaElf Seeks Intelligence Profile
A lot of uncertainty hangs over intelligence management and the handling of sensitive issues at the French oil group TotalFinaElf. (...). [Total : 315 mots].
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EUROPE
Information Blackout on Russian Mines
An Intelligence Newsletter source working for a big European insurance company reports that British and French intelligence agencies recently warned their governments about Russia’s real resources in non ferrous metals (zinc, aluminum, lead, gold, palladium, platinum and nickel). (...). [Total : 431 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Lewis Libby
Vice President-elect Dick Cheney has picked a former deputy under-secretary of defense, Lewis Libby, as his chief-of-staff but also as his assistant for national security affairs. (...). [Total : 203 mots].
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ROMANIA
Catalin Harnagea
On January 5, Catalin Harnagea, chief of Romania’s foreign intelligence agency SRI, officially handed in his resignation to the government. (...). [Total : 218 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Bush to Bolster NSC
With only days to go before George W. Bush’s swearing-in as president on Jan. 20 the U.S. intelligence community is bracing for some major changes. (...). [Total : 381 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Ashroft the Dark Horse
The appointment of defeated Missouri senator John Ashcroft as Attorney General came as a complete surprise to many Washington insiders. (...). [Total : 382 mots].
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EUROPE
Belgians Acknowledge ILETS
Ever since its existence was revealed by the British NGO Statewatch (IN 306) three years ago nobody has doubted the existence of the International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar. (...). [Total : 333 mots].
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EGYPT
Details of Tenet’s Talks
Working on information from several diplomatic sources on post in Cairo, Intelligence Newsletter has managed to piece together the various points that CIA director George Tenet raised during talks with other intelligence officials in the Egyptian capital on January 7-8. (...). [Total : 434 mots].
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RUSSIA
Russians in Aluminum Case
The consortium Russian Aluminum is facing allegations in the United States of trying to corner Russia’s aluminum market by a combination of murder, extortion, mail and wire fraud. (...). [Total : 168 mots].
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EUROPE
Euro Military R&D a Fragmented Affair
A lot of important questions on how to improve the competitiveness of armaments technology in Europe remain unanswered at present even as the Organisation Conjointe de Cooperation en Matiere d’Armement (OCCAR) becomes a fully-fledged legal entity this month. (...). [Total : 425 mots].
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LEBANON
Wadih El Hage
Since the trial of four alleged accomplices of millionaire Ussama Ben Laden opened in New York on January 3, legal experts are focusing their attention mainly on one man in dock, Wadih El Hage. (...). [Total : 371 mots].
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UNITED STATES/EUROPE
Security is Diamond’s Best Friend
The final closed-door meeting of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy before George W. Bush takes office on January 20 focused on finding secure ways of marking diamonds as certified and of securing diamond e-commerce through the use of cryptography. (...). [Total : 154 mots].
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EUROPE
Year 2001: Heaven Can Wait
In failing to agree to launch the development phase of Galileo during a meeting on Dec. 22, the European Union’s transportation ministers have compelled all parties involved in the program to work to a tighter schedule. (...). [Total : 271 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Criminal Hand in Market Rigging
Officials from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appear persuaded that criminal gangs may have had a hand in the runaway rise and then fall of certain stocks on the Nasdaq electronic market. (...). [Total : 402 mots].
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FRANCE
SCIP
Makes Up with SCIP. The SCIP-France Association has come in from the cold. (...). [Total : 54 mots].
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UNITED STATES
The East Coast Challenger
One of the youngest business intelligence consultants in New York, 35-year-old Mark Barry, has been getting a lot of publicity for himself because of a book he penned jointly with newsman Adam Penenberg. (...). [Total : 89 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Applying Biometrics in Industry
A meeting devoted to practical applications of biometrics is to be held between Feb. (...). [Total : 91 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Meeting With New Team
The U.S. Threat Reduction Advisory Committee that advises the Pentagon on a wide range of threats will meet with President George W. (...). [Total : 97 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Clinton’s New Service Stirs Skepticism
American legislators with ties to the intelligence community are displaying a lot of skepticism concerning president Bill Clinton’s idea of establishing a new agency to head counter-intelligence operations in the U. (...). [Total : 192 mots].
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FRANCE
The Sales That Weren’t Counted
Since 1998 the French defense ministry has made a genuine effort to lift veils by submitting a list of French arms exports every year to the French Parliament. (...). [Total : 106 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Rebel Software
The medium-sized American NGO Peacefire has just developed software that can neutralize programs that control access to web sites. (...). [Total : 97 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Ownership Change
A company that specializes in military communications, L-3 Communications, has just bought Coleman Research Corporation for $60 million. (...). [Total : 111 mots].
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EUROPE
What Tomorrow Will Bring
A number of leading experts are to meet at Priverno near Rome between Feb. (...). [Total : 153 mots].
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RUSSIA
Moscow Joins Money-Laundering Fight
Although Russia takes part in international initiatives against money-laundering, such as those led by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), it has never actually set up a service to combat financial crime. (...). [Total : 79 mots].
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UNITED STATES
An Era Changes
Aged 70, Neal Lane, the U.S. president’s advisor on science and technology and head of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, has decided to leave his post. (...). [Total : 158 mots].
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EUROPE
The West’s Questionable Ways in Kosovo
Intelligence Newsletter has learned that the lawyer of col. Jean-Michel Mechain filed a complaint against the French defense ministry on Dec. (...). [Total : 684 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM/RUSSIA
MI6’s Big Breach gets bigger
"The Big Breach", former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson ’s "tell-all" book, went on sale in Moscow this afternoon. (...). [Total : 167 mots].
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UNITED STATES/TAIWAN
Details on the National Security Agency’s bases on Taiwan
The latest Jane’s Defense Weekly, (JDW) the publication that specialises in arms issues, which came out on Wednesday 24/01, reveals some details on National Security Agency (NSA) facilities in Taiwan. (...). [Total : 215 mots].
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