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Battery Runs Out to U.K.

The Alcatel group's recent sale of the high tech French firm SAFT to the British private equity fund manager Doughty Hanson for 390 million euros ($468 million) went largely unnoticed. [...]

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NRO's Infrared Satellite Project

The basic architecture of America's future Space Based InfraRed System (SBIRS), backbone of the country's space surveillance system in coming [...]

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FIRST-EVER SPACE BATTALION

The U.S. Space Command has set up a first battalion devoted entirely to space following a shake-up in September that [...]

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AEROSPATIALE TO CHANGE ITS WAYS

Aerospatiale's merger with Matra Hautes Technologies and its forthcoming alliance with Germany's Daimler Chrysler Aerospace and Spain's CASA in the [...]

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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.

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ABU DHABI CLOSE TO FIGHTER ACCORD

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, armed forces chief-of-staff in the United Arab Emirates, met with French president Jacques Chirac and defense [...]

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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 [...]

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HELICOPTERS AND DRONE-KILLER UAVS

The French security authorities appear particularly worried over the threat of attacks by UAVs against stadiums and other facilities that [...]

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United States
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 [...]

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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, [.

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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 [.

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BRITISH SEEK ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD

Britain wants to develop a anti-missile shield to defend the country from possible attack by a rogue regime in North [...]

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France, Germany
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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Spotlight | France, United States
PRE-COMPETITIVENESS

The Paris Air Show at Le Bourget was billed in the major media as a hotbed of French industrial espionage, especially against American high tech companies (I.N. n. 217). But on the contrary, the Le Bourget show has marked the [.

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CONSTRAINED COOPERATION

The well-known and thoroughly analyzed animosity and aggressiveness over economic, defense, security and intelligence matters between the United States and France is only the tip of the iceberg. Major strategic changes taking place in these areas since the end of [.

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

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Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Central America, China, South America
Beijing on the offensive in Washington's spheres of influence

Ukraine
Jamming wars

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

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

France
Battery Runs Out to U.K.

United States
NRO's Infrared Satellite Project

United States
FIRST-EVER SPACE BATTALION

France
AEROSPATIALE TO CHANGE ITS WAYS

Spotlight | United States
DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

UAE
ABU DHABI CLOSE TO FIGHTER ACCORD

Norway
STANDING GUARD IN SPACE

France
HELICOPTERS AND DRONE-KILLER UAVS

United States
WHAT NON-NRO SATELLITES DO

Spotlight | United States
CIA CHIEF'S POWER PLAY

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HELIOS A MILITARY OR DEFENSE SATELLITE?

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France, Germany
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