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OUR MAN IN BEIRUT

DGSE-trained diplomatic bodyguard and former police chief sargeant Jean-Claude Labourdette [...]

TOWARDS A STRONGER TRACFIN

This coming autumn French Finance Minister Michel Saping will present an anti-corruption bill to Parliament that will surreptitiously extend the [...]

FRENCH-DEVELOPED PASS AT SEVILLE

A French-developed "smart card" technology will undergo its first major public test at Seville, Spain, during the 1992 World's Fair. [...]

An agreement was supposed to have been signed this week [...]

General René Imbot, Director of DGSE foreign intelligence from 1985 [...]

On 8-11 September 1992, the Groupe Blenheim (fax 33 1 [...]

The 17 June Cabinet meeting not only appointed General Jean [...]

IHESI STUDIES COMPUTER CRIME

The official French Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure (IHESI) has published a "Prospective Analysis of Computer Crime [...]

The Institute for International Research (tel. 33 1 46 03 [...]

IVAN BARBOT

Prefect Yvan Barbot, whose term as president of Interpol ends in December of this year, and who for a few [...]

GENERAL HEINRICH AT PARLIAMENT

General Jean Heinrich, special advisor to the Defense Ministry, and recently appointed Director of Military Intelligence (I.N. n. 192), testified [...]

The Association pour le Développement des Sciences et Techniques de [...]

The French Fédération Internationale des Fonctionnaires Supérieurs de Police (FIFSP, [...]

JACQUES FOURNET TESTIFIES AT SENATE

On 21 May, the Senate heard testimony on the Georges Habache affair which shook the French government for several days [...]

NOIR CANON

In spite of unfinished business with French Customs, French arms merchant Georges Starckmann, who has been living in exile in [...]

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are the subject of a joint [...]

The Cercle Economique de la Sécurité (CES, fax 33 1 [...]

PROTECTING FRANCE'S "PATRIMONY"?

Like most Western intelligence services, the DST, France's counter-espionage service, is facing a future without a major adversary and is [...]

The fourth annual Entretiens Science & Défense will be taking [...]