Like his predecessor, John Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence (DNI), Mike McConnell, would like to set up a major research and development agency along the lines of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to serve the [.
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Recent revelations that the U.S. retail behemoth Wal Mart had resorted to espionage methods led to a discreet overhaul of the firm's security system. The changes bolstered the position of its director, Kenneth Senser.
According to our sources, the latest meeting of France's Comite d’Architecture des Systemes de Force (CASF), a panel jointly headed [...]
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In late April one of the last members of Japan's Red Army (Nihon Sekigun) still on the run, Yu Kikumura, [...]
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Anna Aquilina, the official in charge of international development at the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), often described as Britain's [...]
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Washington is investigating Pyongyang's suspected use of financial circuits passing by way of France and Germany to receive money from the export of banned equipment to Syria and Iran.
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A month after France's presidential election the French intelligence and security agencies are still waiting for the appointment of new bosses.
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The interior ministers of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are to join forces in an anti-terrorism endeavour.
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Formed in 1992 after the first Gulf War, the French military intelligence agency Direction du Renseignement Militaire headed by air force general Michel Masson will shortly celebrate its 15th birthday.
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The first encounter between the American and Iranian ambassadors in Baghdad came to nothing, to the great relief of neighbouring nations.
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A non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, Qatar abstained [...]
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Receiving Turkish defense minister Vecdi Gonul in Riyadh on May [...]
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Endorsed over a year ago by the French cabinet, a [...]
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The U.S. intelligence budget (S. 1538) adopted on May 24 [...]
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The French armaments concern Sofema is in the midst of a severe crisis that it must resolve before its general assembly on June 28.
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On the eve of a transport ministers' conclave that will be crucial to Europe's Galileo satellite navigation project no agreement has been reached on funding the program and the EU commission rejects any compromise.
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Some leading ex-MI6 aides have assisted the British oil group BP in signing contracts in Libya and Russia.
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China's Wahaha group is engaged in a courtroom battle with its former partner, the French agribusiness giant Danone. Wahaha has a lot of friends in China's security establishment.
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Officials from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security [...]
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Prince Signs on For Sofresa. A firm backer of Nicolas [...]
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Barroso's Misgivings Over Russia. Invited to speak before the Institut [...]
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Olive Group Looks to Scotland Yard for Staff. Anticipating a [...]
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Suspected of taking part in the poisoning of Alexander Litvenko, the Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi has pointed the finger at a discreet British company.
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A leading sub-contractor to the U.S. intelligence community and defense department, Booz Allen Hamilton is putting its business model to [...]
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Before it launched an offensive against Kurdish troops stationed in northern Iraq on June 6, Turkey took the precaution of [...]
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Confining itself up to now to providing consultants for intelligence agencies (IOL 543/499), the Abraxas Corp has made its debut [...]
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Advisers to France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, are looking pretty well everywhere for a solution to the problems dogging EADS. [...]
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A strong and iconoclastic champion of reforming the French State, [...]
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During his meeting on May 28 with his Iranian counterpart [...]
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Already boasting a substantial business intelligence department (IOL 542), the [...]
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After six years in the post of chairman of the [...]
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