Would the "best practices" of big private corporations triumph over the huge bureaucratic machine of an intelligence agency like the CIA? Unquestionably, the executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, believes they could. This week a working group from [.
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Board members of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) hail mainly from the private sector. Many work in the [...]
A major close-down of U.S. bases planned for 2005 will include the closure of intelligence units as well. This was [...]
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French president Jacques Chirac can now enjoy full control over France's intelligence agencies following the appointment of Pascal Mailhos as [...]
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The fight against radical Islam counts among the chief concerns of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that opened a regional [...]
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The runaway rise in Washington's Homeland Security and counter-terrorism budgets has led to a surge in demand for intelligence experts. The SAIC group has launched a campaign to fill no less than 2,400 jobs.
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Tension is rising in Damascus as the U.S. continues to question Saddam Hussein in the basement of the international airport in Baghdad. The Syrians fear he could make embarrassing revelations.
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Can mathematics be used to press the fight against terrorism. Or would it be just a way to create huge intelligence-gathering systems with applications ranging from marketing to business intelligence and political control ?
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Tempers are rising concerning the forthcoming report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States that is chaired by the former Republican governor of New Jersey, Thomas Kean an ex Democrat representative from Indiana.
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Bahrain has called on the Holland & Knight law firm [...]
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For the first time, the big annual conference of the [...]
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The arrival of a new security chief at the French [...]
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Spending a few days in Paris in mid-January, the Russian [...]
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Set up before Mikhail Khodorkovsky boss of Yukos and founder of the Menatep bank, was jailed, Menatep's lobbying network in North Africa has since proved to be useful in the trial of strength with the Kremlin.
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The highly discreet firm Airscan, one of the rare private operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world, has [...]
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After focussing for years on Western groups operating in China, Kroll is now looking at working for Chinese companies. The [...]
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Thomas Santianello, manager for public policy at the American computer industry's powerful public relations group, Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), [...]
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After hesitating and testing the water for years, several big French companies are finally going to open fully-fledged business intelligence departments in 2004.
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As a result of the Patriot Act in 2001, the U.S. anti-laundering agency FinCEN will see its authority soon extend to the loans and real estate fields after including insurance companies and brokerages in its brief.
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Cities that want to host the Olympic Games used to rely on official entities to promote their cause. Now, however, they are turning to the business world to find experts - even foreign ones - to vaunt their merits.
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Ireland is making a major push to ensure that legislation [...]
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Head of the Centre d'Analyse de Defense (CAD) at the [...]
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Aged 74, ayatollah Ali Sistani, acknowleged as one of the [...]
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Representative from Louisiana in Congress for the past 20 years [...]
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Risk Analysis, a small firm founded five years ago by [...]
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Whether from the public or private sector, the leading American [...]
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Out of the $2 trillion that Middle East residents invest [...]
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The specialized organization IIR Financial Training is organizing two training [...]
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According to diplomatic sources in Jordan and Kuwait, Syrian military [...]
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In paying an official visit to France between Jan. 14-16, [...]
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Behind bars since December, Oskar Holenweger, owner and former director [...]
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