Jean-Yves Helmer pushed through a major overhaul at the French armaments board -- Delegation Generale pour l'Armement -- on Jan. 22 just as France's Defense Council was poised to meet under president Jacques Chirac to examine a new "strategic plan" [.
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The general council in the Maritime Alps department is organizing [...]
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A first international banking and information security conference (I.B.I.S. 97) [...]
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Tian Genren, head of the Chinese Security Ministry's (Guoanbu) Section 17 that deals with economic and financial intelligence and counter-espionage [...]
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A Moscow-based private security company named Alpha that was set up in 1991 and now claims to have 1,000 clients [...]
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Following a major commercial difference between the two companies, France's [...]
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Since he left the CIA in December, John Deutch has [...]
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In his race for the Russian presidency Alexander Lebed is reputed to lack money. However, a recent report by the [...]
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Britain's home secretary, Michael Howard, has learned that if modern technology makes it relatively easy to carry out intrusive surveillance [...]
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Britain's Association of Women Barristers (AWB) has recommended to the Commons Home Affairs committee that members of the Freemason Brotherhood [...]
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In the fight to head off terrorism, U.S. special forces deployed in Bosnia -- the Special Operations Command Implementation Force [...]
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A decree published on Jan. 7 that created a National Guard in Bahrain along Saudi Arabian lines was the fruit [...]
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Chief-of-staff to former president Francois Mitterrand until 1992 -- and [...]
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Head of security for the Thomson group since February, 1994, [...]
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher banned unions at the government's GCHQ [...]
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After signing security pacts with Pakistan, Yemen and Bulgaria, the Egyptian government has sealed another with Poland. Officially, the two [...]
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Intelligence Newsletter has obtained an Arabic-language copy of notes taken during a meeting that Moslem Brotherhood officials from Syria, Egypt [...]
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Russia is on the point of adopting a series of laws governing intellectual property, information security and cryptography. The Security [...]
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The British government and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) appear to be in open disagreement over the status of the [...]
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Many intelligence chiefs in charge of economic security will hold [...]
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The U.S. concern O'Gara Company has acquired Labbe, a French [...]
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Military intelligence has long made use of fixed-wing UAV's but the first unmanned helicopters are only now making their debut. [...]
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In coming days the British government will examine a recommendation from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that the U.K. start [...]
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Only a few years ago it was impossible to think [...]
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An Atlanta-based company specializing in encryption software for the Internet, [...]
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France's Aerospatiale presented ASERIS 97, a new version of its [...]
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Held in secret for 14 years, the Israeli scientist Markus Klingberg, who is serving a 20 year jail sentence for [...]
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The refusal by Lebanese president Elias Hraoui and prime minister Rafic Hariri to promote col. Jamil Assayed, number two man [...]
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Former Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers who have written books or taken part in filmed documentaries about the elite regiment [...]
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