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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 [...]

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FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will shortly [...]

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United States
ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

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United States
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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Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

Erwin McDonald, a 43-year-old businessman of Surinamese/Dutch origin whose body was found on Oct. 17 at the Brokopondo dam south [...]

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Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

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Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

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DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

Capitalizing on the fact that the American military is known as an organization where women and minorities can move up [...]

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East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

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Spotlight | Europe, United States
MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

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United States
STANLEY E. MORRIS

As part of the drive to renforce the Treasury Department's financial intelligence service, the FinCEN, Stanley E. Morris was recently [...]

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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If the Cold War motto of American intelligence was "Beat the Reds" that has been replaced by "Follow the Money."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 [.

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United States
NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen recently named representatives of private industry and government agencies to join a new 30-member Bank [...]

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United States
FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

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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 [...]

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Russia, United States
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Israel
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Spotlight | Netherlands
CRISIS SITUATION

The Dutch intelligence community is in full crisis following a series of leaks, revelations, re-shuffles and reforms. The internal security service, Binnenlandse Veiligheidienst (BVD) recently "flunked" its first public report entitled Developments in the Area of Internal Security (I.

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Information wars in the Caucasus

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

Israel
Israeli cyber bounces back after NSO woes

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

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

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

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

Europe
THE KLA'S NETWORKS

United States
THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

France
FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

United States
DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

United States
DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

United States
FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

United States
DOVETAILING THE EFFORTS

United States
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Netherlands
ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK

United States
BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

United States
FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

United States
ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

United States
NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

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DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Spotlight | Europe, United States
MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

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STANLEY E. MORRIS

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States
NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

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FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

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FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

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NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

Russia, United States
CIA TO THE RESCUE

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BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

Spotlight | Netherlands
CRISIS SITUATION

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CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"