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JEAN-CHARLES MARCHIANI'S UNIT

Prefect Jean-Charles Marchiani who has been officially assigned to a [...]

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 [...]

FRENCH FOLLOW THE OIL ROUTE

After being largely pushed aside by Washington in the scramble for new military markets in the Gulf following the war [...]

CALL FOR BIGGER ROLE FOR SGDN

All the top figures in France's intelligence services met with Jean Picq, a senior counsellor at the French Audits Court, [...]

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The Sixth European Forum on Information Technology Quality and Security, [...]

PARACHUTE DROPS ON TARGET

Paratroops from a French special forces unit, Commandos de Recherche [...]

FIGHTING INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

A so-called "diagnostic team" made up of 14 experts from France's Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure (IHESI) [...]

SUCCESS ABROAD, INFIGHTING AT HOME

The heads of French intelligence and leading political figures are all jockeying for position in advance of France's presidential elections [...]

ENCRYPTION OUT IN OPEN

The debate over encryption has generally been carried out behind closed doors in France. However, the issue popped up in [...]

JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT

Accused of spying for France's DGSE by Texas Instruments (TI), Jean-Piere Dolait probably owes his sudden exposure to the limelight [...]

HOW TO READ FINANCIAL REPORTS

SCIP France (Association for the Promotion of Business and Competitive [...]

CHANGES UNDER NEW PRESIDENT

France's Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (SGDN) has discreetly set out under deputy secretary-general Rémy Pautrat to draft a [...]

TRADE IN GREY MATTER

France's Centre d'Etudes et de Réflexion is organizing a breakfast [...]

FROM MOGADISHU TO SARAJEVO

The Centre d'Analyse sur la Sécurité Européenne (CASE) is organizing [...]

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CRUCIAL YEAR UNFOLDS FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS

The new year will usher in an era of violent conflict across the globe between Moslem fundamentalist movements backed by Iran and both Western nations and conservative Moslem governments. Following the hijack of the Air France Airbus at Algiers airport [.

DUAL FRANCO-RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY

Over the past two years the French association Science et Defense has been discreetly pursuing the delicate task of promoting [...]

A new system patented by the French company Wattelez provides [...]

MAJOR STRATEGIC SEMINAR

France's Centre des Hautes Etudes de l'Armement is holding a [...]

RISE IN STATUS FOR RG

Interior minister Charles Pasqua has handed the French police intelligence service Renseignement Generaux (RG) a promotion which it had been [...]