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CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

With the American intelligence and defence community hotly debating the future of American space programs, an independent expert, John Pike, [...] (538 words)

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NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

After coming under fire in Congress in late November during a debate on the legality of interceptions by the Echelon

UNITED STATES 02/12/1999

SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Congress, NSA officials won't be heard before the House of Representative's Government Reform Committee

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EUROPE 18/11/1999

SPY SATELLITES FIRST LINE IN EUROPE'S DEFENSES

A report discussed behind closed doors during a meeting of the Western European Union's Technological and Aerospace Committee on Nov. 10 fixed the timetable for transforming the Torrejon satellite center in Spain into a European Union defense unit.

FRANCE 18/11/1999

NEW ELECTROMAGNETIC RESOURCES

The French army is to beef up its electromagnetic capability

UNITED STATES 18/11/1999

SPACE COMMAND TACKLES NEW MISSIONS

Over the past five weeks the U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) headquartered at the Peterson air force base in Colorado has

UNITED STATES 18/11/1999

BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Legislator Bob Barr has benefited from a favorable climate in the U.S. Congress to mark an important point in his

UNITED STATES 04/11/1999

NRO PEERS INTO THE FUTURE

The U.S. space-based intelligence agency National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has lifted a further veil on the invitation to tender it

UNITED STATES 21/10/1999

NRO HUNGRY FOR IDEAS

The highly-secretive U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has put out

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UNITED STATES 07/10/1999

IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

In recent months the Pentagon and NSA have undertaken secret and direct negotiations with the bosses of IBM and Microsoft to get them to install systems enabling the intelligence community to gain access to encrypted data.

UNITED STATES 07/10/1999

FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

American claims that the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7 by US Air Force fighters was

UNITED STATES 26/08/1999

COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

A book published in the United States this month identifies American companies linked to the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence

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UNITED STATES 22/07/1999

SPACE INTELLIGENCE IN TROUBLE

Three years after a shake-up of American space-based intelligence that resulted in the founding of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) on Oct. 1, 1996 the branch is in dire trouble as the result of a series of major

UNITED STATES 08/07/1999

WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

Washington is intent on creating a massive domestic and international Internet monitoring system, according to Intelligence Newsletter sources close to

UNITED STATES 24/06/1999

SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

According to an Intelligence Newsletter source at the Pentagon who has just returned from the Balkans, a significant number of

UNITED STATES 22/04/1999

MOVE TO PRIVATE SPACE INTELLIGENCE

If the planned launch of Space Imaging's high resolution Ikonos 1 satellite takes place on April 27 – a full

UNITED STATES 08/04/1999

NRO PLAN UNDER FIRE

The National Reconnaissance Office's blueprint for the next generation of imagery satellites, known as the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA), is

UNITED STATES 11/03/1999

TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

In a speech to the Central Intelligence Retiree's Association (CIRA) last fall, John Millis, staff director of the House Permanent

UNITED STATES 25/02/1999

REVELATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE "BIBLE"

Intelligence expert Jeffrey Richelson is to publish the fourth edition of his "bible" of American intelligence-gathering, The US Intelligence Community

UNITED STATES 11/02/1999

THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

The recent publication of the book "Top Secret Intranet" (Prentice Hall, NJ., ISBN 0-13-080898-9) by a former top-level NSA official,

UNITED STATES 28/01/1999

NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE

Significant new details on how the National Security Agency is organized in the post-Cold War era have emerged from new

UNITED STATES 31/12/1998

FIRST SALES FOR COMMERCIAL IMAGERY

Two American space imagery companies, Orbimage and Space Imaging, announced on Oct. 30 and Dec. 11 that they had signed

UNITED STATES 31/12/1998

DE-CLASSIFYING THE OBVIOUS AND THE LESS SO

Over the last several years the National Security Agency has declassified a variety of facts about operational and administrative matters,

UNITED STATES 31/12/1998

EXTRA FUNDING FOR NRO

The National Reconnaissance Office will be a big beneficiary of a $1.5 billion increase in intelligence spending in the 1999

FRANCE 10/12/1998

THE FUTURE OF SIGINT

Debates on the French defense budget for 1999 in the National Assembly and Senate shed a little more light on

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UNITED STATES 26/11/1998

DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

A flurry of recent ballistic weapons tests highlights the importance of an obscure intelligence organization that is soon to celebrate its 35th anniversary in helping the U.S. to monitor new missile developments across the world.

UNITED STATES 12/11/1998

THE AGENCY THAT MISSED OUT ON FUTURE

In a move that raises doubts about the future of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, the directorate has

RUSSIA UNITED STATES 29/10/1998

THE CASE AGAINST AN AMERICAN SPY

An affidavit issued by the FBI after it proceeded with the little-noticed arrest of former Army intelligence officer David Sheldon

UNITED STATES 15/10/1998

EXPERIMENTAL SATELLITE TESTS 29 SYSTEMS

The National Reconnaissance Office has made up for its abortive launch of a signals intelligence satellite in August by successfully

UNITED STATES 01/10/1998

THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

A recent report by the General Accounting Office stated that the U.S. currently spends over $295 million annually on gleaning

UNITED STATES 17/09/1998

THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

The National Security Agency is being asked increasingly by the government's civilian branches to simulate attacks on their computer systems

UNITED STATES 30/07/1998

LIFTING VEIL ON SATELLITE OPERATION

In an unprecedented move, the National Reconnaissance Office has revealed the award of a contract for a yet-to-be built satellite

NORWAY 16/07/1998

STANDING GUARD IN SPACE

If the Norwegian parliament approves funding, the U.S. will transfer a new radar system originally intended for intelligence collection in

UNITED STATES 18/06/1998

HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

The U.S. intelligence community's failure to provide warning of the recent Indian nuclear tests stemmed from a combination of analytical,

UNITED STATES 04/06/1998

NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

The National Security Agency, which prides itself on ensuring the use of American-made chips and printed circuit boards for its

UNITED STATES 04/06/1998

BACKROOM AGENCY CLOSED DOWN

The Defense Support Project Office, one of the most obscure agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, is being closed down,

UNITED STATES 21/05/1998

AGENCIES SLAMMED FOR LOSING THEIR EDGE

The skills of the U.S. intelligence community have "dwindled since the break-up of the Soviet Union," according to the House

UNITED STATES 02/04/1998

NRO FINDS PARTNERS FOR SATELLITE SCHEME

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has teamed up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force

UNITED STATES 19/03/1998

DENNIS BOXX

The leading spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency and then director of communications at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Dennis

UNITED STATES 19/03/1998

A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

A key element in the management of the U.S. signals intelligence effort, the National SIGINT Committee, has undergone a number

UNITED STATES 05/03/1998

TELEVISION IN THE COCKPIT

A system named Rapid Targeting Capacity developed jointly by the

UNITED STATES 05/03/1998

KEEPING CLOSER WATCH ON ENVIRONMENT

The U.S. intelligence community's increasing focus on environmental intelligence was underlined by last year's move to establish a DCI Environmental

UNITED STATES 19/02/1998

WHAT NON-NRO SATELLITES DO

Most of the space intelligence for the U.S. intelligence community originates from the National Reconnaissance Office's fleet of imagery and

UNITED STATES 19/02/1998

NRO'S 6TH TECHNOLOGICAL FORUM

The National Reconnaissance Office's Advanced Systems & Technology Directorate is

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EUROPE UNITED STATES 08/01/1998

SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK

Space-based intelligence is set to become a commodity like any other this year. Apart from a few exceptions (Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea) military and civil intelligence agencies across the globe will be able to buy high definition imagery

UNITED STATES 08/01/1998

AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SNAPSHOT

The U.S. Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), which marked its fourth anniversary in October, bears the hallmarks of two trends in

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HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

A top-line panel has recommended a shake-up in American intelligence that would include such revolutionary moves as uncoupling the Directorate of Intelligence from the CIA and reducing it drastically in size. The panel, chaired by former National Security Agency director

UNITED STATES 18/12/1997

NRO LIFTS THE VEIL AGAIN

The National Reconnaissance Office declassified approximately 38,000 pages of documents concerning the Corona, Argon and Lanyard satellite programs on Nov.

UNITED STATES 04/12/1997

SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

The National Security Agency is radically overhauling the structure of its Directorate of Operations, ending the latter's 45-year-long practice of

UNITED STATES 20/11/1997

PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure

UNITED STATES 20/11/1997

LIFT-OFF FOR NEW NRO SATELLITE

A rocket carrying a SIGINT satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office was hoisted into space from Cape Canaveral on Nov.

UNITED STATES 20/11/1997

STREAMLINING INTELLIGENCE EFFORT

The Defense Department is poised to introduce major changes in the way it manages its intelligence and reconnaissance operations and

UNITED STATES 09/10/1997

ZEROING IN ON SCUDS

Harkening back once again to the Gulf War, the U.S. intelligence community is continuing to make efforts to improve ways

UNITED STATES 11/09/1997

SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

In late August the CIA declassified over 200 articles that appeared in its secret in-house journal, Studies on Intelligence, between

EUROPE 10/07/1997

CALL FOR EURO SPACE AUTHORITY

Plans by France and Germany to work together on a military observation satellite project have run into a wall since

UNITED STATES 10/07/1997

RESHUFFLING ITS SPACE CARDS

As more countries become active commercially and militarily in space the United States has set out to revamp and upgrade

UNITED STATES 26/06/1997

NEW WAYS TO HIT "HARD TARGETS"

In a recent talk with newsmen, Keith Hall, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), outlined a number of new

UNITED STATES 15/05/1997

THE SWITCH TO SMALLER SATELLITES

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is putting the final touches to changes in its organizational structures in response to recommendations

SWEDEN 30/04/1997

WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

The American journalist Allan Francovich, reputed for his investigative documentaries on covert U.S. intelligence operations, the Gladio Stay Behind network

UNITED STATES 13/03/1997

BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Set up last December, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) that aims to hammer out a national strategy

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UNITED STATES 13/02/1997

CRYPTOGRAPHY'S LEAP INTO COMMERCIAL ARENA

By the end of this year cryptography will have definitely quit the intelligence and defense spheres in which it has been carefully enclosed up to now and thrown itself into the commercial era. The RSA Data Security Conference which was

EUROPE 13/02/1997

LOBBYING FOR SPACE INTELLIGENCE

The European Control by Satellite association (EUCOSAT), which is backed

UNITED STATES 16/01/1997

STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE

Robert Steele, pioneer in the use of open sources by U.S. intelligence, has angrily protested over two decisions taken by

UNITED STATES 14/11/1996

BALANCING ACT BETWEEN DCI AND SENATE

The 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act signed by President Bill Clinton in October will lift U.S. spending on intelligence to a

UNITED STATES 14/11/1996

LIFTING THE VEIL ON NRO

The US National Reconnaissance Office has released further details about its budget, personnel, organization and future plans. Among the details

UNITED STATES 03/10/1996

NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency began operating on Oct 1 less than a year after DCI John Deutch proposed

UNITED STATES 18/07/1996

JEFFREY HARRIS

Jeffrey Harris, who is slated on July 29 to become president of Space Imaging, one of a string of ambitious

FRANCE 26/06/1996

20% LESS FOR SPACE

France's new military spending plan covering the years 1997-2002 provides for a 15 to 20% drop in the cost of

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UNITED STATES 09/05/1996

DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

John Deutch's plan to overhaul American intelligence that was presented to Congress in late April aims to meld a profusion of agencies with often overlapping powers into a genuine, unified and more effective "intelligence community" with a much smaller workforce.

UNITED STATES 18/04/1996

FIXING AGENDA FOR TCA

The Technical Collection Agency that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in its IC21 report (IN --) should

UNITED KINGDOM 18/04/1996

A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT

The United States still hasn't told the British government exactly how much damage CIA traitor Aldrich Ames inflicted on British

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UNITED STATES 07/03/1996

DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

The high-level panel set up under former defence secretary Harold Brown to assess the performance of the American intelligence community has rejected any massive overhaul of U.S. intelligence. The panel, named the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the

UNITED STATES 07/03/1996

CLASH OVER NRO'S WAR CHEST

CIA director John Deutch braved the ire of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence in late February by refusing point

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UNITED STATES 25/01/1996

CIA CHIEF'S POWER PLAY

The U.S. intelligence community and legislators are thrashing out ideas in preparation for a major shake-up of American intelligence later this year or early in 1997. In a hearing on Dec. 19 before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,

FRANCE 21/12/1995

A CLASSY LOSER

The boss of Matra Defense, Noel Forgeard, lobbied his "friend"

UNITED STATES 09/11/1995

AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS

In response to a barrage of fire against the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), CIA director John Deutch has told the

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UNITED STATES WEST EUROPE 28/09/1995

HELIOS A MILITARY OR DEFENSE SATELLITE?

The suspense that Germany has carefully nurtured over whether it will join France in the Helios 2 and Horus (ex Osiris) military satellite programs will shortly come to an end. Intelligence Newsletter learned from a high-ranking German military source attending

ISRAEL UNITED STATES 31/08/1995

ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

James Norman, a senior editor at Forbes magazine for five years, was suddenly fired two weeks ago in connection with

UNITED STATES 31/05/1995

JOHN DEUTCH

The new Director of Central Intelligence, John Deutch, made his first public appearance on May 23 in Washington during a

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WEST EUROPE 29/03/1995

HELIOS TO DOVETAIL EUROPE'S INTELLIGENCE EFFORT

When the Ariane rocket lifts the Helios 1 military satellite into orbit in June or July the three countries taking part in the program -- France, Italy and Spain --will have made a major step towards coordinating their intelligence-gathering.

FRANCE GERMANY 15/02/1995

PUTTING BONN INTO THE PICTURE

Germany is expected to formally announce in March that it will take part in the French-led Helios 2 observation satellite

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UNITED STATES 30/11/1994

THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

Many high-level officials from the National Security Agency turned up at the latest seminar staged in Washington by Open Sources Solutions, the company headed by Robert Steele which has worked in recent years to encourage intelligence services to use open

UNITED STATES 24/08/1994

BIG TROUBLE AT NRO

Only one week into the month, the usual August lull was broken when President Bill Clinton, at the request of

UNITED STATES 24/08/1994

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

UNITED STATES 20/07/1994

INSLAW BODY COUNT RISING?

As the House Judiciary Committee awaits the final Department of Justice report on the Inslaw case concerning the pirated PROMIS

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ISRAEL UNITED STATES 06/07/1994

PROMIS: ISRAELI BACKLASH IN THE U.S.?

In pursuing indications that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was trying to graft an artificial intelligence capacity onto illegal copies of Promis software, Bill Hamilton, president of Inslaw which originally produced the software, conducted a Freedom

UNITED STATES 22/06/1994

NRO FINALLY GETS A BOSS

Over a year ago Intelligence Newsletter announced that budget and bureaucratic problems had left the super-secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

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UNITED STATES 08/06/1994

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

UNITED STATES 09/02/1994

ISRAEL, INMAN & POLLARD

On 18 January Israel announced that the Clinton administration was giving in to a long-standing request to relax restrictions on

UNITED STATES 09/02/1994

CLIPPER MOVING IN OR OUT?

A couple of weeks before the Clinton administration is scheduled to complete a classified review of the officially proposed Clipper

FRANCE 12/01/1994

OSIRIS WITH THE GERMANS?

France should launch its first military optical satellite Helios 1 next October. However, French military officials are currently very sceptical

UNITED STATES 29/09/1993

NRO RIPE FOR PRUNING

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which has been functioning for

AUSTRALIA 15/09/1993

REGIONAL ANTI-MISSILE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM?

The U.S. Space Command proposed earlier this year the establishment

UNITED STATES 15/09/1993

CIA OFFERS INSTEAD OF TAKES?

In the recent first issue of the electronic journal The Internet Letter (e-mail netweekàaccess.digex.net), Paul Wallner, the CIA's coordinator of

UNITED STATES 01/09/1993

NRO ON THE MAP AND IN THE BUDGET

The National Reconnaissance Office, created in 1961 by the CIA

UNITED STATES 28/04/1993

CLIPPER CHIP'S POOR START

On 16 April the White House Office of the Press Secretary announced the introduction of the "Clipper Chip" as "a

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UNITED STATES 17/02/1993

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MARKETING CENTER IN ATHENS FOR SATELLITE SERVICE

Images produced by Ikonos observation satellites are going to be

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CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

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NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

SPY SATELLITES FIRST LINE IN EUROPE'S DEFENSES

NEW ELECTROMAGNETIC RESOURCES

SPACE COMMAND TACKLES NEW MISSIONS

BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

NRO PEERS INTO THE FUTURE

NRO HUNGRY FOR IDEAS

IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

SPACE INTELLIGENCE IN TROUBLE

WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

MOVE TO PRIVATE SPACE INTELLIGENCE

NRO PLAN UNDER FIRE

TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

REVELATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE "BIBLE"

THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE

FIRST SALES FOR COMMERCIAL IMAGERY

DE-CLASSIFYING THE OBVIOUS AND THE LESS SO

EXTRA FUNDING FOR NRO

THE FUTURE OF SIGINT

DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

THE AGENCY THAT MISSED OUT ON FUTURE

THE CASE AGAINST AN AMERICAN SPY

EXPERIMENTAL SATELLITE TESTS 29 SYSTEMS

THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

LIFTING VEIL ON SATELLITE OPERATION

STANDING GUARD IN SPACE

HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

BACKROOM AGENCY CLOSED DOWN

AGENCIES SLAMMED FOR LOSING THEIR EDGE

NRO FINDS PARTNERS FOR SATELLITE SCHEME

DENNIS BOXX

A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

TELEVISION IN THE COCKPIT

KEEPING CLOSER WATCH ON ENVIRONMENT

WHAT NON-NRO SATELLITES DO

NRO'S 6TH TECHNOLOGICAL FORUM

SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK

AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SNAPSHOT

HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

NRO LIFTS THE VEIL AGAIN

SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

LIFT-OFF FOR NEW NRO SATELLITE

STREAMLINING INTELLIGENCE EFFORT

ZEROING IN ON SCUDS

SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

CALL FOR EURO SPACE AUTHORITY

RESHUFFLING ITS SPACE CARDS

NEW WAYS TO HIT "HARD TARGETS"

THE SWITCH TO SMALLER SATELLITES

WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

CRYPTOGRAPHY'S LEAP INTO COMMERCIAL ARENA

LOBBYING FOR SPACE INTELLIGENCE

STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE

BALANCING ACT BETWEEN DCI AND SENATE

LIFTING THE VEIL ON NRO

NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

JEFFREY HARRIS

20% LESS FOR SPACE

DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

FIXING AGENDA FOR TCA

A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT

DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

CLASH OVER NRO'S WAR CHEST

CIA CHIEF'S POWER PLAY