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MIDDLE ROAD FOR THE DGSE

With the 3 June appointment of Prefect Jacques Dewatre as director of DGSE foreign intelligence, the French government has chosen a middle road which it considers to be best solution at present. Son of an officer, and himself a graduate [.

HEAVY SENTENCES IN THE LUCHAIRE AFFAIR

The high court of Venice has tried forty French, Italian [...]

A DEFENCE AGREEMENT SOON?

According to Intelligence Newsletter sources, France could soon sign a defense agreement with the United Arab Emirates. Under the accord [...]

DICTATORS' GOLD

Philippe Madelin, journalist with French TF1 television and trainee at [...]

DOWN TO BRASS TACKS WITH THE AMERICANS?

Despite the American media campaign against supposed French economic espionage [...]

JOINT AEROSPACE SYMPOSIUM IN PARIS

Aviation Week & Space Technology and the French Centre d'Etude [...]

A "MULTIPLE WARHEAD" MESSAGE

By launching a media campaign against French industrial espionage in the United Stats a few weeks before the Paris air [...]

NEW "FORMER MEMBERS"

The Amicale des Anciens des Services Speciaux de la Defense [...]

APPOINTMENTS BY "CONSENSUS"

The appointment of new senior police and intelligence officials is taking place in a climate of "consensus" between the government [...]

FIRST VOLUME OF A WORLD HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE

Roger Faligot and Rémi Kauffer, both journalists and authors specialized [...]

THOMSON-CSF FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS

The French electronics firm Thomson-CSF, which acquired Wilcox Electric in [...]

HEAVY SENTENCES IN THE LUCHAIRE AFFAIR

On 16 April, following a 9 hour prosecution statement before [...]

SIGNING FOR THE LECLERC TANKS

Rumors coming from Arab businessmen in Paris and London have [...]

PASSIVE TO ACTIVE MEASURES?

One of the most tightly guarded stealth technologies has been the composition of the Radar Absorbing Material (RAM). Guarding this [...]

LUCHAIRE TRIAL CONTINUES

The prosecution is expected to sum up its case on [...]

IMAGINARY SPIES

As could be expected, French DGSE foreign intelligence is really [...]

CUTS DON'T TOUCH NON-ELECTRONIC, DEFENSE COMMUNICATIONS

Defense cuts have not touched the last French, secret, non-electric [...]

The Fortieth Paris Air Show (fax 33 1 47 20 [...]

HELLO AND GOOD BYE

Claude Silberzahn, director of DGSE foreign intelligence, chose to publish [...]