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U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

The American intelligence community has come to the uncomfortable conclusion that the U.S. is ill-prepared to deal with the threat [...]

Published on 09/11/1995 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Spotlight | Europe, United States
NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

According to analysts close to Western intelligence agencies the probability that terrorist gangs will resort to using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons to commit attacks is growing ever stronger. That fear has prompted the CIA to work specially since last [.

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United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

In conjunction with a new British publishing house specializing in [...]

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

United States
PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

A recently-released report from the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs that investigated Gulf War illnesses has criticized reports drawn up [...]

Subscribers only 17.09.1998

United States
HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

The U.S. intelligence community's failure to provide warning of the recent Indian nuclear tests stemmed from a combination of analytical, [...]

Subscribers only 18.06.1998

Spotlight | United States
CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Just days after CIA chief George Tenet was reported to be planning to reduce the size, budget and role of the CIA's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) he announced that he would instead double its staff and give its director more clear-cut [.

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Spotlight | United States
CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

In its first major shakeup since 1981, the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence has cut the number of directorate offices from nine to five. The overhaul results from a review undertaken by John Gannon, deputy Director for Intelligence, and [.

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Europe, Middle East
NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

At least 2,000 tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium are currently being stocked in an "under-protected and under-regulated [...]

Subscribers only 27.03.1997

United States
NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

CIA director John Deutch recently told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that the government had no evidence that any [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1996

European Union, United States
EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

When a working group set up by the European Union, the U.S. and Canada on Iran meets in Rome in [...]

Subscribers only 25.01.1996

United States
CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

When he paid an official visit on the CIA on July 14 just two months after the arrival of a [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1995

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

United Kingdom
FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD

Unable to pry any information from MI6, members of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FASC) who wanted information on [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

The advent of a Republican majority in Congress has reassured the U.S. intelligence community that it will obtain both the funds and encouragement needed to pursue its post-Cold War objectives. Top intelligence executives had feared that resources would have been [.

Subscribers only 18.01.1995

Israel
LIFTING NUCLEAR SECRECY?

The issue of controlling and limiting weapons of mass destruction has taken a back seat to diplomatic maneuvers between Israel [...]

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United States
THE SUPER TERRORISM AGE

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) forms the most dangerous threat to the post-Cold War world, according to [...]

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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 [.

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United States
COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

The recent hearings before the U.S. Senate Government Affairs Committee furnished an unprecedented occasion to compare high-quality intelligence on threat [...]

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Spotlight | United States
HOSTAGES: IAN SPIRO'S SECRETS

With Ian Spiro's death under strange circumstances on a road in the California desert on 8 November (I.N. n. 205) probably one of last embarrassing witnesses to the Irangate "arms for hostages" negotiations has disappeared.

Subscribers only 02.12.1992

United States
ROBERT GALLUCCI

Although the obnoxious David Kay of the first UN team that inspected Iraq's weapons was accused by the Iraqis of [...]

Subscribers only 09.09.1992

Spotlight | Italy
ARMS SALES: THE CASALEE MYSTERY

The trial in early 1991 in Brescia of the Valsellameccanotecnica (VSMT), the Fiat subsidiary accused of having sold nine million mines to Iraq between 1982 and 1986 (a $180 million contract), shed light on a company formerly unknown among arms [.

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United States
"OCTOBER SURPRISE" BACK AGAIN?

On 11 and 12 March in Madrid, Spanish officials arrested Iranian arms dealer Mehdi Kashani, who heads the Spanish branch [...]

Subscribers only 25.03.1992

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

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Central America, China, South America
Beijing on the offensive in Washington's spheres of influence

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

United States
U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

Spotlight | Europe, United States
NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

United States
PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

United States
HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

Spotlight | United States
CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Spotlight | United States
CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

Europe, Middle East
NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

United States
NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

European Union, United States
EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

United States
CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

United States
NEW TURN OF SCREW ON TERRORISM

United Kingdom
FISHING FOR SECRETS ABROAD

Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

Israel
LIFTING NUCLEAR SECRECY?

United States
THE SUPER TERRORISM AGE

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

United States
COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States
HOSTAGES: IAN SPIRO'S SECRETS

United States
ROBERT GALLUCCI

Spotlight | Italy
ARMS SALES: THE CASALEE MYSTERY

United States
"OCTOBER SURPRISE" BACK AGAIN?