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The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) combines the role of a US federal police force and an internal intelligence service. It comes under the authority of the Department of Justice and oversees the police authorities at the federal level. A member of the US intelligence community, the FBI often competes with the CIA on terrorism and counterintelligence cases.

UNITED STATES 05/07/2001

Agency Tussle over Montesinos Affair 

The staff of CIA director George Tenet probably wasn’t all that pleased to hear about the arrest of Vladimiro Montesinos [...]

UNITED STATES 21/06/2001

High Tech Firms Fret over Security 

A series of hearings before the House’s sub-committee on crime on June 14 revealed how important the idea of security [...]

UNITED STATES 21/06/2001

James Rowe 

Considered a leading specialists on espionage after serving on several Congressional committees that study intelligence issues, James Rowe has just [...]

UNITED STATES 07/06/2001

NIPC on Brink of Change 

A number of cyber-crime professionals in Washington consider that the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), an FBI organization that sees [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES EUROPE 07/06/2001

The Hidden Stakes of Economic Warfare 

In the light of information gleaned by Intelligence Newsletter, the breakdown of merger talks between Alcatel and Lucent Technologies provides a fresh look at the notion of economic warfare, which is often seen in dramatic cut-and-dried terms. [...]

UNITED STATES 23/05/2001

Medical Espionage Charge 

The trial of two Japanese nationals indicted on May 10 [...]

UNITED STATES 19/04/2001

NIPC Appeals for Wider Cooperation 

Ronald Dick, head of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), [...]

UNITED STATES 19/04/2001

Former FBI Man in Rwanda Tells It Straight 

Intelligence Newsletter has spoken to Jim Lyons, a recently-retired FBI [...]

UNITED STATES 05/04/2001

Pentagon Gives Nod to Biometrics 

Officials from a number of U.S. government agencies lauded the virtues of biometric identification at the Biometrics 2001 Conference in [...]

UNITED STATES 05/04/2001

William Webster 

The former head of the CIA and FBI, William Webster, has begun a fresh career in computer security at the [...]

UNITED STATES 22/03/2001

Ambivalence in Infrastructure Defense 

Over the past month a number of American corporations in the new technology field have begun complaining over the key [...]

UNITED STATES 22/03/2001

Ronald Dick 

A man largely in favor of international accords to monitor cyberspace has just been named head of the National Infrastructure [...]

UNITED STATES 08/03/2001

Kudos for Surveillance Court 

The Hanssen espionage affair has indirectly confirmed the importance of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) as an ultimate barrier [...]

UNITED STATES 22/02/2001

Robert Hanssen 

Born on April 18, 1944, Robert Hanssen appears set to become a set example of a senior intelligence official who [...]

UNITED STATES RUSSIA 22/02/2001

Betrayed by his Palm Pilot 

Robert Hanssen, who seems destined to become one of the [...]

UNITED STATES 22/02/2001

Counter-Espionage Shake-Up Looms 

Shaken by two major disasters in the space of a [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2001

CIA Links with L.A. Drug Dealers 

Sources in the U.S. Congress are continuing to speculate about a now-suppressed House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2001

Michael Carns 

A discreet retired U.S. Air Force general, Michael Carns, was named a director at the equally discreet company Dyn Corp [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2001

Pentagon Takes the Lead 

If the new U.S. administration goes ahead with its National Missile Defense (NMD) there will inevitably be a stronger focus [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2001

Big Brother Watched Super Bowl 

A surveillance system set up at Tampa stadium in Florida for the Super Bowl on January 18 has triggered the [...]