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WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

The American journalist Allan Francovich, reputed for his investigative documentaries on covert U.S. intelligence operations, the Gladio Stay Behind network [...]

Published on 30.04.1997 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 5 minutes

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United States
NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

After coming under fire in Congress in late November during a debate on the legality of interceptions by the Echelon [...]

Subscriber 16.12.1999

United States
SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Congress, NSA officials won't be heard before the House of Representative's Government Reform Committee [...]

Subscriber 02.12.1999

United States
BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Legislator Bob Barr has benefited from a favorable climate in the U.S. Congress to mark an important point in his [...]

Subscriber 18.11.1999

Spotlight | United States
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.

Subscriber 07.10.1999

United States
FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

American claims that the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7 by US Air Force fighters was [...]

Subscriber 07.10.1999

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

A book published in the United States this month identifies American companies linked to the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence [...]

Subscriber 26.08.1999

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WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

Washington is intent on creating a massive domestic and international Internet monitoring system, according to Intelligence Newsletter sources close to [...]

Subscriber 08.07.1999

United States
SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

According to an Intelligence Newsletter source at the Pentagon who has just returned from the Balkans, a significant number of [...]

Subscriber 24.06.1999

United States
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 [...]

Subscriber 11.03.1999

United States
REVELATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE "BIBLE"

Intelligence expert Jeffrey Richelson is to publish the fourth edition of his "bible" of American intelligence-gathering, The US Intelligence Community [...]

Subscriber 25.02.1999

United States
THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

The recent publication of the book "Top Secret Intranet" (Prentice Hall, NJ., ISBN 0-13-080898-9) by a former top-level NSA official, [...]

Subscriber 11.02.1999

United States
THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

The National Security Agency is being asked increasingly by the government's civilian branches to simulate attacks on their computer systems [...]

Subscriber Corporate Intelligence 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, [...]

Subscriber 18.06.1998

United States
NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

The National Security Agency, which prides itself on ensuring the use of American-made chips and printed circuit boards for its [...]

Subscriber 04.06.1998

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

A top-line panel has recommended a shake-up in American intelligence that would include such revolutionary moves as uncoupling the Directorate of Intelligence from the CIA and reducing it drastically in size. The panel, chaired by former National Security Agency director [.

Subscriber 18.12.1997

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure [...]

Subscriber 20.11.1997

United States
BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Set up last December, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) that aims to hammer out a national strategy [...]

Subscriber 13.03.1997

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY'S LEAP INTO COMMERCIAL ARENA

By the end of this year cryptography will have definitely quit the intelligence and defense spheres in which it has been carefully enclosed up to now and thrown itself into the commercial era. The RSA Data Security Conference which was [.

Subscriber 13.02.1997

United States
STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE

Robert Steele, pioneer in the use of open sources by U.S. intelligence, has angrily protested over two decisions taken by [...]

Subscriber 16.01.1997

Spotlight | United States
DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

John Deutch's plan to overhaul American intelligence that was presented to Congress in late April aims to meld a profusion of agencies with often overlapping powers into a genuine, unified and more effective "intelligence community" with a much smaller workforce.

Subscriber 09.05.1996

United States
FIXING AGENDA FOR TCA

The Technical Collection Agency that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in its IC21 report (IN --) should [...]

Subscriber 18.04.1996

United Kingdom
A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT

The United States still hasn't told the British government exactly how much damage CIA traitor Aldrich Ames inflicted on British [...]

Subscriber 18.04.1996

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DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

The high-level panel set up under former defence secretary Harold Brown to assess the performance of the American intelligence community has rejected any massive overhaul of U.S. intelligence. The panel, named the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the [.

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United States
AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS

In response to a barrage of fire against the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), CIA director John Deutch has told the [...]

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Israel, United States
ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

James Norman, a senior editor at Forbes magazine for five years, was suddenly fired two weeks ago in connection with [...]

Subscriber 31.08.1995

United States
CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

With the American intelligence and defence community hotly debating the future of American space programs, an independent expert, John Pike, [...]

Subscriber 14.06.1995

United States
JOHN DEUTCH

The new Director of Central Intelligence, John Deutch, made his first public appearance on May 23 in Washington during a [...]

Subscriber 31.05.1995

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THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

Many high-level officials from the National Security Agency turned up at the latest seminar staged in Washington by Open Sources Solutions, the company headed by Robert Steele which has worked in recent years to encourage intelligence services to use open [.

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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 [...]

Subscriber 24.08.1994

United States
INSLAW BODY COUNT RISING?

As the House Judiciary Committee awaits the final Department of Justice report on the Inslaw case concerning the pirated PROMIS [...]

Subscriber 20.07.1994

Spotlight | Israel, United States
PROMIS: ISRAELI BACKLASH IN THE U.S.?

In pursuing indications that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was trying to graft an artificial intelligence capacity onto illegal copies of Promis software, Bill Hamilton, president of Inslaw which originally produced the software, conducted a Freedom [.

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United States NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

United States SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

United States BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Spotlight | United States IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

United States FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

United States COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

United States SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

United States TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

United States REVELATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE "BIBLE"

United States THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

United States THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

United States HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

United States NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

Spotlight | United States HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

United States BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Spotlight | United States CRYPTOGRAPHY'S LEAP INTO COMMERCIAL ARENA

United States STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE

Spotlight | United States DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

United States FIXING AGENDA FOR TCA

United Kingdom A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT

Spotlight | United States DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS

Israel, United States ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

United States CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

United States JOHN DEUTCH

Spotlight | United States THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

United States DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

United States INSLAW BODY COUNT RISING?

Spotlight | Israel, United States PROMIS: ISRAELI BACKLASH IN THE U.S.?

Spotlight | United States INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States CLIPPER MOVING IN OR OUT?

United States CIA OFFERS INSTEAD OF TAKES?

United States CLIPPER CHIP'S POOR START

United States LANGUAGE PROGRAM WITH SPY TIES

United States DOING BUSINESS WITH THE RUSSIANS

United States JOHN M. MCCONNELL

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Sweden
WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

United States
NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

United States
SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

United States
BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

United States
FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States
WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

United States
SECRET HELP FOR KOSOVARS

United States
TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

United States
REVELATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE "BIBLE"

United States
THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE

United States
THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

United States
HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

United States
NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

United States
BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY'S LEAP INTO COMMERCIAL ARENA

United States
STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE

Spotlight | United States
DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

United States
FIXING AGENDA FOR TCA

United Kingdom
A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT

Spotlight | United States
DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States
AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS

Israel, United States
ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

United States
CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

United States
JOHN DEUTCH

Spotlight | United States
THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

United States
DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

United States
INSLAW BODY COUNT RISING?

Spotlight | Israel, United States
PROMIS: ISRAELI BACKLASH IN THE U.S.?

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States
CLIPPER MOVING IN OR OUT?

United States
CIA OFFERS INSTEAD OF TAKES?

United States
CLIPPER CHIP'S POOR START

United States
LANGUAGE PROGRAM WITH SPY TIES

United States
DOING BUSINESS WITH THE RUSSIANS

United States
JOHN M. MCCONNELL