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UNITED STATES 12/02/2004 American Lobbyist for Iraqis To land contracts for the reconstruction of their country Iraqi firms proceed exactly as everybody else - they hire American [...]
FRANCE 21/12/2000 What Triggered Wood’s Downfall? Associates of a French officer, Marc Wood, implicated in an espionage affair at the French embassy in Washington in July [...]
UNITED STATES MIDDLE EAST 23/11/2000 Planning Attacks on US Interests in Gulf Yemen's investigation into "Arab Afghan" movements in the wake of the bomb attack against the USS Cole on Oct. 12 [...]
UNITED STATES 09/11/2000 Knives Out Behind the Official Secrets Act A high degree of in-fighting concerning the public's right to classified information is marking the final days of the Clinton [...]
ISRAEL 28/09/2000 Secret Deal between U.S. and Tel Aviv Israel's Mossad and the CIA have been endeavoring in recent weeks to defuse the crisis that was triggered by Tel [...]
UNITED STATES 18/11/1999 REWARD FOR COVERT OPERATIONS U.S. defense secretary William Cohen awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service [...]
UNITED STATES 21/10/1999 NORTON SCHWARTZ On Oct. 14, U.S. defense secretary William Cohen appointed gen. Norton Schwartz as deputy commander in chief of the U.S. [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES 07/10/1999 IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES In recent months the Pentagon and NSA have undertaken secret and direct negotiations with the bosses of IBM and Microsoft to get them to install systems enabling the intelligence community to gain access to encrypted data. [...]
UNITED STATES 08/07/1999 CIVILIANS BATTLE MILITARY FOR NUCLEAR R&D The scandal over alleged Chinese espionage at American nuclear research laboratories has cast light on strong rivalry between the Department [...]
UNITED STATES 11/03/1999 THE MANAGER'S CD-ROM GUIDEBOOK U.S. defense secretary William Cohen has presented the Pentagon's personnel [...]
UNITED STATES 14/01/1999 JOHN CAMPBELL Maj.-Gen. John Campbell took over command of the brand new Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND) on Dec.30. [...]
UNITED STATES 17/09/1998 THE DOWNSIDE OF GLOBALIZATION The American defense industry's growing reliance on foreign suppliers and sub-contractors for electronic components and software can present a security [...]
UNITED STATES 02/04/1998 PENTAGON SWITCHES TACK In an abrupt reversal of its plans, the Department of Defense confirmed its decision in late March to broaden the [...]
UNITED STATES 19/02/1998 ARTHUR MONEY Last November the Task Force for Defense Reform appointed by Defense secretary William Cohen to improve the operational performance of [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES EUROPE 08/01/1998 SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK Space-based intelligence is set to become a commodity like any other this year. Apart from a few exceptions (Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea) military and civil intelligence agencies across the globe will be able to buy high definition imagery [. [...]
UNITED STATES 20/11/1997 STREAMLINING INTELLIGENCE EFFORT The Defense Department is poised to introduce major changes in the way it manages its intelligence and reconnaissance operations and [...]
UNITED STATES 13/02/1997 PHILIP ODEEN On Feb. 6 the new U.S. defense secretary, William Cohen, named members of the National Defense Panel that has been [...]
UNITED STATES 02/01/1997 JOHN DEUTCH Hardly had president Bill Clinton announced the appointment of Anthony Lake as new director of central intelligence (DCI) than John [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES 12/12/1996 CLINTON'S GLOBAL-MINDED SECURITY TEAM The make-up of the new "security team" appointed by President Bill Clinton on Dec. 5 offers a clear idea of the priorities he has chosen for his second mandate. Clinton's first four years were devoted essentially to the economy: [...]
UNITED STATES 06/04/1994 LAWS TO MONITOR AGENTS' FINANCES Routine scrutiny of financial records by the government for both persons seeking to obtain Top Secret security clearance and persons [...]