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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. This represents a [...] (1089 words)

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WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

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EUROPE 08/04/1999

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BETTER COORDINATION AGAINST GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRAFFIC

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INTERPOL CONFERENCE IN RANGOON BOYCOTTED

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The multinational Joint Inter Agency Task Force (JIATF) that is widely regarded as the front line in the West's war

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In a report that has just been released, the Director of Central Intelligence's Persian Gulf War Illness Task Force declared

FRANCE 06/11/1997

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

UNITED STATES 25/09/1997

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A team from the American Drug Enforcement Administration arrived discreetly

JAPAN 30/10/1996

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UNITED STATES 03/10/1996

DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

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UNITED STATES 03/10/1996

NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency began operating on Oct 1 less than a year after DCI John Deutch proposed

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FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

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MAJOR COCAINE BUST IN IRELAND

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SILENT PARTNERS

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UNITED STATES 09/05/1996

DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

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UNITED STATES 08/02/1996

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NETHERLANDS 25/01/1996

ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK

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UNITED KINGDOM 23/11/1995

POLICE FOR SALE -- LEGALLY

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UNITED STATES 12/10/1995

THE GHOST OF BARRY SEAL

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UNITED STATES 31/08/1995

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

UNITED STATES 29/06/1995

FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

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

NETHERLANDS 31/05/1995

NO DUTCH DAM FOR DRUGS TIDE

In a new twist to a striking tale, the influential Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsbad reported on May 26 that a

UNITED STATES 31/05/1995

ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

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UNITED STATES 15/02/1995

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEA

Worried over the attention paid in the media to organizations

UNITED STATES 01/02/1995

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

NETHERLANDS 30/11/1994

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

UNITED STATES 30/11/1994

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

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UNITED STATES 16/11/1994

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

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On 13 October a professional assassin used an infrared night vision scope and a machine-pistol to shoot dead Saint Kitts'

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DEA ROLES UP CALI NETWORKS

Last week the DEA indicted a number of people who

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JOHAN VAN DAMME

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UNITED STATES 07/09/1994

NEW DEA FIRST STRING

DEA administrator Thomas A. Constantine recently put together a veteran

UNITED STATES 24/08/1994

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

UNITED STATES 20/07/1994

CUSTOMS SINKING CLIPPER?

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U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

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The Hague police's " CoPa" (Cocaine-Paramaribo) team, after several years of trying to unravel Surinamese involvement in international cocaine trafficking,

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EUROPE UNITED STATES 22/06/1994

MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

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UNITED STATES 08/06/1994

INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

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DEA CUTS "LEGALIZE" MARIJUANA?

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UNITED STATES 04/05/1994

SECRET DEA REPORT ON CHINESE TRIAD

Intelligence Newsletter has obtained a classified DEA report which shows

UNITED STATES 06/04/1994

NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

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FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

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UNITED STATES 23/02/1994

FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

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UNITED STATES 24/11/1993

NO FBI-DEA MERGER

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POOR RESULTS IN THE DRUG WAR

Two reports criticizing the drug war have come out at

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DEA CATCHES DUTCH MERCHANTS

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THE STRANGE CASE OF S.K.A. BROWN

Two bodyguards, George Elsing and Geurt Roos, employed by drug trafficker Steve Kees Aäron Brown have gone public with information

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BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

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UNITED STATES 24/06/1992

DEA'S "LEGAL" KIDNAPPING

Anxiety lurks beneath the evident ideological satisfaction of some Bush administration officials with the Supreme Court's 15 June ruling that

IRAN UNITED STATES 13/05/1992

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UNITED STATES 15/01/1992

CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"

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BACKDOORS USED IN OPERATION

FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

THE KLA'S NETWORKS

BETTER COORDINATION AGAINST GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRAFFIC

INTERPOL CONFERENCE IN RANGOON BOYCOTTED

U.S. MOUNTS WIDER DEFENSE

THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

DUTCH TRACK COLONIAL CONNECTION

REPORT SLAMS FAULTY INTELLIGENCE IN GULF

FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

HOW THE DIA TRACKS TERRORISM

DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

A DIA BOSS'S VAGUE MOMENTS

DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

MAJOR COCAINE BUST IN IRELAND

DOVETAILING THE EFFORTS

SILENT PARTNERS

DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

BARRY MCCAFFREY

ALLEGED "OCTOPUS" BOSS HITS BACK

POLICE FOR SALE -- LEGALLY

THE GHOST OF BARRY SEAL

BANKING SECRECY UNDER THREAT

FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

NO DUTCH DAM FOR DRUGS TIDE

ANTI-TERRORIST AND DRUG "WAR GAMES"

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEA

NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

DISAPPEARANCES AND DEALINGS

DEA ROLES UP CALI NETWORKS

JOHAN VAN DAMME

NEW DEA FIRST STRING

DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

CUSTOMS SINKING CLIPPER?

U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SURINAM?

MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

STANLEY E. MORRIS

INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

DEA CUTS "LEGALIZE" MARIJUANA?

SECRET DEA REPORT ON CHINESE TRIAD

NEW ANTI-LAUNDERING GROUP

FINCEN AT WORK IN AMES CASE

FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

TOURIST CAMOUFLAGE

FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

CORRUPTION, COKE & THE DEA

NO FBI-DEA MERGER

WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

DEA CATCHES ITS OWN

LESTER KNOX COLEMAN III

A DEA-FBI-BATF MERGER?

SHAKEUP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

INTELLIGENCE BUDGET BATTLE

END OF SECRET "SNATCHINGS"?

POOR RESULTS IN THE DRUG WAR

DEA CATCHES DUTCH MERCHANTS

THE STRANGE CASE OF S.K.A. BROWN

DEA STANDS TO WIN SOME AND TO LOSE SOME

ROGELIO CRUZ

CIA TO THE RESCUE

BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

DEA'S "LEGAL" KIDNAPPING

MAMOUD REZA PAHLAVI

CRISIS SITUATION