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UNITED STATES 22/04/1999 THE CONTRADICTIONS IN PROTECT BILL ON CRYPTOGRAPHY A new draft law tabled by John McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona, has added a new twist to the [...]
UNITED STATES 22/04/1999 ROBERT EINHORN President Bill Clinton announced on April 13 that he was naming Robert Einhorn as assistant secretary of state for non-proliferation. [...]
UNITED STATES 22/04/1999 THOMAS WILSON After naming an Air Force general, Michael Hayden, as head of the NSA last month (IN 353/354) president Bill Clinton [...]
UNITED STATES 22/04/1999 FORMER NSA DIRECTOR TO PROMOTE EXPORTS President Bill Clinton announced on April 14 that he was [...]
UNITED STATES 22/04/1999 GENERAL CLARK'S WAY WITH SUBORDINATES According to a well-placed Pentagon official, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, [...]
UNITED STATES 08/04/1999 NRO PLAN UNDER FIRE The National Reconnaissance Office's blueprint for the next generation of imagery satellites, known as the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA), is [...]
CHINA UNITED STATES 25/03/1999 DANGER IGNORED FOR DECADE Recent allegations that China's development of advanced nuclear weapons technology was assisted by information provided by a Los Alamos scientist [...]
UNITED STATES 11/03/1999 TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS In a speech to the Central Intelligence Retiree's Association (CIRA) last fall, John Millis, staff director of the House Permanent [...]
UNITED STATES 11/03/1999 NEW BOSS AT NSA As Intelligence Newsletter predicted in its last issue (IN 353), [...]
UNITED STATES 25/02/1999 WHO WILL FILL NSA SLOT? With U.S. Air Force lt.-gen. Kenneth Minihan due to step down as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) in [...]
UNITED STATES 11/02/1999 JACK DEVINE After serving for 31 years, Jack Devine has left the CIA to join a private company that specializes in intelligence. [...]
UNITED STATES IRAQ 11/02/1999 RICCIARDONE'S OPTIONS AGAINST SADDAM Frank Ricciardone, the special U.S. representative for the "Iraqi transition," met with officials from seven Iraqi opposition movements backed by [...]
JORDAN 28/01/1999 POLITICAL MISTAKES AND PALACE INTRIGUE King Hussein's decision to withdraw the title of crown prince from his brother, Hassan Ibn Talal, was symbolically conveyed to [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES EUROPE 28/01/1999 FOUR SCENARIOS FOR INFORMATION WARFARE President Bill Clinton's call on Jan. 22 for a $1.46 billion increase in the U.S. military budget next year to protect the country from chemical, biological and computer attack marks the American administration's true debut in "strategic information warfare" (SIW). [...]
UNITED STATES 14/01/1999 MOVE TO BOOST INFLUENCE President Bill Clinton plans to reorganize U.S. "foreign affairs agencies" in a move clearly aimed at bolstering American influence in [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES IRAQ 14/01/1999 TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS The huge electronic spying operation carried out since 1996 in Iraq by the United States, Israel, Britain and several other countries via UNSCOM raises a lot of questions. One concerns its effectiveness. The results appear to have fallen short of [. [...]
MONACO 31/12/1998 POLICE UP IN ARMS AGAINST MONEY LAUDERING Legal institutions and the police in Monaco have been shaken by crisis in recent months over the principality's emergence as [...]
UNITED STATES IRAQ 10/12/1998 KEY FIGURES IN ANTI-SADDAM FIGHT The four Americans that Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Council (INC), named in talks in Tehran late last [...]
UNITED STATES 10/12/1998 INFOWAR SQUABBLES According to well-placed government sources, the Clinton administration is mired [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES MIDDLE EAST 10/12/1998 CIA NEGOTIATES IN TEHRAN WITH IRAQI SHI'ITES When U.S. assistant secretary of state Martin Indyk met officially in London on Nov. 24 with the main Iraqi opposition groups only one movement was conspicuously absent: Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI). [...]