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GERMANYFRANCE 23/09/1999 MYSTERIOUS TURNS IN ELF SCANDAL The international arrest warrant issued by Switzerland against a French go-between in the Elf affair, Andre Guelfi, -- and which [...]
FRANCE 23/09/1999 NEW "UP-MARKET" INTELLIGENCE UNIT The Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique has set up a new unit to conduct highly detailed business intelligence operations [...]
FRANCE 23/09/1999 LEGISLATORS TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING A group of French legislators has given itself the task of identifying obstacles that hamper the fight against money laundering [...]
FRANCE 23/09/1999 RED TAPE WEIGHS DOWN DRM The everyday operations of French military intelligence Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) are being increasingly hampered by bureaucratic obstacles. Behind [...]
FRANCE 23/09/1999 13TH RDP IN JOINT EXERCISES In recent months France's 13th Airborne Dragoons Regiment, which answers [...]
FRANCE 09/09/1999 THE GERMAN ANGLE TO ELF AFFAIR Intelligence Newsletter has learned that the Swiss legal authorities are poised this week to issue an international arrest warrant for [...]
FRANCE 09/09/1999 BUSY SCHEDULE FOR NEW CARRIER The forthcoming sea trials of France's new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle are to be bunched together, according to [...]
FRANCE 09/09/1999 DGSE'S "WET" OPERATIONS In a book to be published on Sept. 16, Pierre Marion, head of DGSE between 1981-82, relates how French intelligence [...]
FRANCE 09/09/1999 FUTURE ELITE LEARNS ABOUT INFOWAR The class that will graduate from France's elite Ecole Nationale [...]
FRANCE 09/09/1999 NAVY FACES QUESTIONS According to Intelligence Newsletter's diplomatic sources, the French Navy's chief-of-staff, [...]
FRANCE 09/09/1999 UNDERSTANDING SUBVERSION The Centre International de Science Criminelle de Paris (CISCP) is [...]
FRANCE 26/08/1999 CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT MOVES TO FRANCE TELECOM The French government has seconded a woman who holds the [...]
FRANCE 22/07/1999 SPOTLIGHT ON HOW "BIG FIVE" OPERATE A lot of essential questions remain unanswered following last week's publication in Paris of a report by legislator and former [...]
FRANCE 22/07/1999 JACQUES GHEERBRANT Vice-admiral Jacques Gheerbrant, military attache at the French embassy in London, was named permanent secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Intelligence Committee [...]
FRANCE 22/07/1999 SECRET AIR UNIT A book published this month about France's Commandement des Operations Speciales (COS) has lifted the veil for the first time [...]
FRANCETAIWAN 08/07/1999 NEW TWIST TO FRIGATE SAGA Some fresh developments look likely to partially revive a probe into the "Tango Bravo" armaments contract signed between France and [...]
FRANCE 08/07/1999 HOW FRANCE TELECOM OPERATES Business intelligence is playing an ever-greater part in France Telecom's strategic decisions. The company's business intelligence unit, officially named Agence [...]
FRANCE 08/07/1999 COMPUTER-ASSISTED PLAGIARY France's Federation Internationale des Fonctionnaires Superieurs de Police will organize [...]
FRANCE 08/07/1999 INTERNATIONAL CYBERCRIME CONCLAVE An international seminar on the theme of "Crime and New [...]
FRANCE 24/06/1999 ANALYZING FIELD INTELLIGENCE French units sent into Kosovo and others stationed in Macedonia since the outset of the crisis are using new data [...]
FRANCE 24/06/1999 CORRUPTION, THE LURE OF ARMAMENTS DEALS French defense minister Alain Richard has found his department embroiled in a corruption scandal affecting warship builder Direction des Constructions [...]
UNITED STATESFRANCE 24/06/1999 BREAKTHROUGH FOR QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY Quantum cryptography has long been an experimental subject for a handful of research laboratories but it may now conquer hearts [...]
FRANCE 24/06/1999 CIVIL VERSION FOR AIR SURVEILLANCE The French aircraft builder Reims Aviation chose the Paris Air [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 24/06/1999 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE GAINS GROUND For the first time an exact inventory of French advances in business intelligence can be drawn up following an informal meeting organized by the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiale (ONERA) and attended by France's main players in the [...]
