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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, [...]

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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 [...]

Subscribers only 16.12.1999

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 [.

Subscribers only 02.12.1999

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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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.

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

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

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

United States
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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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, [...]

Subscribers only 11.02.1999

Spotlight | Iraq, United States
TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

The huge electronic spying operation carried out since 1996 in Iraq by the United States, Israel, Britain and several other countries via UNSCOM raises a lot of questions. One concerns its effectiveness. The results appear to have fallen short of [.

Subscribers only 14.01.1999

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
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 [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 17.09.1998

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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [.

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 20.11.1997

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 [.

Subscribers only 06.11.1997

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 [.

Subscribers only 30.04.1997

Sweden
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 [...]

Subscribers only 30.04.1997

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
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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [.

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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.

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 18.04.1996

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

Spotlight | United States
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 [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 07.03.1996

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
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 [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.1995

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 [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.1995

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 [...]

Subscribers only 31.08.1995

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
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, [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

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 [...]

Subscribers only 14.12.1994

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 [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.1994

Spotlight | United States
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 [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 30.11.1994

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 [.

Subscribers only 16.11.1994

United States
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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [...]

Subscribers only 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 [.

Subscribers only 06.07.1994

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China, Europe Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France Information wars in the Caucasus

France Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

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

Insiders | China Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

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United States NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

Spotlight | Europe, United States NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

United States SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

United States BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Spotlight | United States IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

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

Spotlight | Iraq, United States TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

United States PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

United States THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

United States NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

Spotlight | United States HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Spotlight | United States CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Spotlight | United States CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

Sweden WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

Europe, Middle East NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

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

United States NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

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

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

United States U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

United States AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS

Israel, United States ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

United States CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

United States CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

United States JOHN DEUTCH

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 THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

Spotlight | United States NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

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 COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

United States LANGUAGE PROGRAM WITH SPY TIES

United States DOING BUSINESS WITH THE RUSSIANS

United States ROBERT GALLUCCI

United States JOHN M. MCCONNELL

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

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

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

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
HOW THE U.S. GOT IT WRONG

United States
NSA'S PAINFUL INTERNAL AUDIT

Spotlight | Europe, United States
NEW NBC TERRORISM RISKS

United States
SPECULATION ON NSA HEARINGS

United States
BARR WINS FIRST ROUND AGAINST ECHELON

Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL SPY POW-WOW

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

Spotlight | Iraq, United States
TOUGH TEST FOR U.S. CODE-BREAKERS

United States
PENTAGON, CIA TAKEN TO TASK

United States
THE HIDDEN COST OF ASKING NSA'S HELP

United States
NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Spotlight | United States
CIA ASSERTS AUTHORITY OVER COUNTER-PROLIFERATION

Spotlight | United States
CIA SLIMS DOWN FOR FASTER ACTION

Sweden
WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

Europe, Middle East
NUCLEAR REPORT RINGS THE ALARM

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

United States
NEW WARNINGS SOUNDED

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

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

United States
U.S. ILL-PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY

United States
AUDITING NRO'S BOOKS

Israel, United States
ISRAEL ANGLE IN FOSTER CASE

United States
CLINTON'S THREE PRIORITIES

United States
CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

United States
JOHN DEUTCH

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
THE MARCH TO "OFF-THE-SHELF" INTELLIGENCE

Spotlight | United States
NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

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
COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

United States
LANGUAGE PROGRAM WITH SPY TIES

United States
DOING BUSINESS WITH THE RUSSIANS

United States
ROBERT GALLUCCI

United States
JOHN M. MCCONNELL