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BELGIUM KEEPS EYE ON "KURDISTAN COMMITTEES"

To head off the risk of anti-Turk attacks in Brussels, [...]

NEW INTELLIGENCE BILL READY

Prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene and Belgium's justice minister, Melchior Wathelet, have unveiled a draft bill on the Belgian intelligence services [...]

SWOOP ON GIA

The Belgian authorities arrested 12 suspected members of the Algerian Armed Resistance (GIA) and destroyed one of the movement's logistic [...]

PIECING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE

Sources in Belgium say that police in Liege have documentary evidence that Lt. Gen. Jacques Lefebvre, who committed suicide earlier [...]

GAINING A GLOBAL EDGE

As part of its training program in business intelligence, the [...]

REBUILDING THE SPY COMMUNITY

At the end of last week the in-depth re-organization of the Belgian intelligence community took another step forward with the [...]

"GLADIO" STILL ALIVE & KICKING?

"Gladio" stay-behind networks in the Netherlands and Belgium were officially dissolved a few years ago. But according to recent articles [...]

ANDRE VANDENHEEDE

Arrested on the Spanish island of Malaga on 22 August, former Belgian army officer Commander Andre Vandenheede, 47, is facing [...]

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The publisher Editions Politeia in Brussels (tel 32 2 506 [...]

NOW THE GREAT GRENADE SWINDLE

While the "three Guys" are preparing to answer allegations in the Agusta/Cools scandal (I.N. n. 234), De Obussen-Affaire has blown [...]

AGUSTA/COOLS A FALSE TRAIL?

Specialists have noted that $5 million allegedly paid by Agusta to the Belgian Socialist Party in the Agusta/Cools affair (I.N. [...]

AGUSTA/COOLS CASE MOVES FORWARD

The Agusta/Cools case move forward (I.N. n. 232) with the recent decision by an 11-member Senate judicial committee to withdraw [...]

COOLS/AGUSTA GOES TO PARLIAMENT

The investigation into the murder of Socialist Party (PS) politician André Cools in July 1991 and links with the government's [...]

ALBERT RAES

Albert Raes, the former director of the Sûreté d'Etat from 1977 to 1990, whose request for reinstatement was rejected by [...]

ALBERT RAES

Albert Raes, the 61-year old former head of the Sûreté d'Etat who was sacked by Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet in [...]

CPCSR NOW HIRING

In the wake of the Gladio or "Stay Behind" scandals in Belgium, and the rest of Western Europe, and the [...]

ALL SENT TO A HIGHER COURT

The case of suspended police commissioner Frans Reyniers and his [...]

BART VAN LIJSEBETH

Bart Van Lijsebeth, deputy public prosecutor, has been appointed deputy administrator or head of the Sûreté de l'Etat counter-espionage service. [...]

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