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Spotlight | United States
FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

One of the world's most technology-intensive and least known intelligence services, the American Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been functioning since October 1993 without a director after moving into its new headquarters in Vienna, Virginia, near the CIA in [...]

Published on 23.02.1994 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

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United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

A book published in the United States this month identifies American companies linked to the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

Europe
THE KLA'S NETWORKS

Sources close to the German intelligence agencies say the CIA [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.1999

United States
THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

A recent report by the General Accounting Office stated that the U.S. currently spends over $295 million annually on gleaning [...]

Subscribers only 01.10.1998

France
FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

The FOPAC group in Interpol that sees particularly to money laundering issues met behind closed doors for its annual autumn [...]

Subscribers only 06.11.1997

United States
DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

A team from the American Drug Enforcement Administration arrived discreetly [...]

Subscribers only 12.06.1997

United States
DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

New evidence has emerged in Los Angeles that appears to [...]

Subscribers only 03.10.1996

United States
FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

Budget proposals recently submitted to Congress will enable the FBI to double the number of its offices abroad over the [...]

Subscribers only 05.09.1996

United States
DOVETAILING THE EFFORTS

Following a 12-month inquiry in the U.S. and seven European countries, the General Accounting Office (GAO) has just published a [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1996

United States
BARRY MCCAFFREY

President Bill Clinton has named Lt. Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a man some consider in line for the chairmanship of the [...]

Subscribers only 08.02.1996

Netherlands
ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK

A 42-year-old Dutch businessman, Norbert Stok, has started legal proceedings to win damages from the Amsterdam public prosecutor's office and [...]

Subscribers only 25.01.1996

United States
BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

Citing the need to stamp out terrorism and organized crime, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are showing fresh interest [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 31.08.1995

United States
FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will shortly [...]

Subscribers only 29.06.1995

United States
ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

The U.S. defence department has enrolled the analytical skills of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to help [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

United States
NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

President Bill Clinton's executive order in late January to freeze the US assets of 18 individuals and a dozen organizations [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

Erwin McDonald, a 43-year-old businessman of Surinamese/Dutch origin whose body was found on Oct. 17 at the Brokopondo dam south [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.1994

United States
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

On the face of it, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent Richard Horn is suing a State Department official and [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.1994

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

The U.S. Departments of Treasury and Energy are emerging as ever-more important players alongside the traditional intelligence services in identifying and tracking down terrorist organizations and their state backers as well as fighting the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological [.

Subscribers only 16.11.1994

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

The Clinton administration has recently had to assure lawmakers that its new anti-drug policy will focus on disrupting drug production and trafficking organizations at the source in order to get additional money from Congress for counternarcotic activities.

Subscribers only 21.09.1994

United States
DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

Capitalizing on the fact that the American military is known as an organization where women and minorities can move up [...]

Subscribers only 24.08.1994

East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

On the surface FBI Director Louis J. Freeh's whirlwind ten-day tour of nine countries in central and eastern Europe is [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1994

Spotlight | Europe, United States
MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

The fight against money laundering was the subject of several international meetings which took place last week in Europe. In Brussels, the Belgian interior ministry, along with Editions Politeia, organized a symposium on 15 June concerning "Property of Criminal Origin" [.

Subscribers only 22.06.1994

United States
STANLEY E. MORRIS

As part of the drive to renforce the Treasury Department's financial intelligence service, the FinCEN, Stanley E. Morris was recently [...]

Subscribers only 08.06.1994

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

If the Cold War motto of American intelligence was "Beat the Reds" that has been replaced by "Follow the Money." The U.S. Treasury Department has become a new, fully-fledged member of the American intelligence community on equal footing with the [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 08.06.1994

United States
NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen recently named representatives of private industry and government agencies to join a new 30-member Bank [...]

Subscribers only 06.04.1994

United States
FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

According to well-placed Washington intelligence sources, the American financial intelligence service FinCEN (I.N. n. 235 & 236) has turned up [...]

Subscribers only 06.04.1994

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Below the Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN, see "Spotlight" in [...]

Subscribers only 09.03.1994

United States
NO FBI-DEA MERGER

After very serious talk of incorporating all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) activities into the FBI, largely for reasons of cost [...]

Subscribers only 24.11.1993

United States
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

Several months after it opened, the $50 million National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) is as isolated from the war on [...]

Subscribers only 24.11.1993

Russia, United States
CIA TO THE RESCUE

Chief topics of discussion between the CIA and the Russian [...]

Subscribers only 02.12.1992

Israel
BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

The American FBI suspects that a Tel Aviv-based Israeli money laundering ring which is processing as much as $200 million [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1992

Spotlight | Netherlands
CRISIS SITUATION

The Dutch intelligence community is in full crisis following a series of leaks, revelations, re-shuffles and reforms. The internal security service, Binnenlandse Veiligheidienst (BVD) recently "flunked" its first public report entitled Developments in the Area of Internal Security (I.

Subscribers only 11.03.1992

United States
CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"

New CIA director Robert Gates' major task is down-scaling his service without losing terrain to Pentagon intelligence services, and particularly [...]

Subscribers only 15.01.1992

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United States COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

Europe THE KLA'S NETWORKS

United States THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

France FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

United States DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

United States DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

United States FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

United States DOVETAILING THE EFFORTS

United States BARRY MCCAFFREY

Netherlands ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK

United States BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

United States FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

United States ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

United States NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

Netherlands COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Spotlight | United States NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

Spotlight | United States NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

United States DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

East Europe U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Spotlight | Europe, United States MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

United States STANLEY E. MORRIS

Spotlight | United States INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

United States FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

United States FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

United States NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

Russia, United States CIA TO THE RESCUE

Israel BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

Spotlight | Netherlands CRISIS SITUATION

United States CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"

Al Amoudi irritates opposition

Off the record conference in the USA on security

The United States fears attacks on its citizens

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China, Philippines, United States
The great US-China subsea cables race in the Pacific

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Hungary
Viktor Orban's new security entourage

Ukraine
Jamming wars

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Spotlight | United States
FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

Europe
THE KLA'S NETWORKS

United States
THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

France
FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

United States
DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

United States
DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

United States
FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

United States
DOVETAILING THE EFFORTS

United States
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Netherlands
ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK

United States
BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

United States
FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

United States
ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

United States
NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

United States
DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Spotlight | Europe, United States
MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

United States
STANLEY E. MORRIS

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States
NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

United States
FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

United States
NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

Russia, United States
CIA TO THE RESCUE

Israel
BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

Spotlight | Netherlands
CRISIS SITUATION

United States
CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"