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  Intelligence Online N°576  - 28/08/2008     SUBSCRIBE
  SPOTLIGHT
Washington
CIA No Longer Calls The Shots
After reigning supreme over American intelligence for nearly 60 years, the CIA lost its clout last month. On July 30, George W. (...)  [ 682 words ] [ $8,2 ]
     Networks & organizations
  Lobbying :  A Media Drive to Groom Georgia’s Image  [ FREE ]  
  Political Intelligence

Tokyo
Japan Backs Away from Afghanistan
Japan’s self-defense forces are unlikely to commit themselves to Kabul. Tokyo’s military intelligence service has warned against it in the past month. (...)  [ 163 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Washington
Space Intelligence Makeover Planned
A panel consisting of senators, former US Air Force commanders and ex directors from the NRO is going to recommend a sweeping overhaul of space intelligence. (...)  [ 269 words ] [ $4,7 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
Dale Meyerrose
The American intelligence community’s first-ever Chief Information Officer (CIO) is to leave his job at the end of September. (...)  [ 169 words ] [ $1,5 ]

Ramallah
Jibril Rajoub
Sidelined by the appointment of Toufik Tirawi as head of the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence services on July 30, the security adviser to Mahmud Abbas , Jibril Rajoub , is expected make a comeback by joining a wise man’s committee that will be bolted onto a new Palestinian security set-up. (...)  [ 190 words ] [ $1,5 ]

Tbilisi
Fallout from Israeli Assistance
Israeli weapons were employed to kill or wound Russians in the conflict in South Ossetia, something that has not escaped Moscow’s attention. (...)  [ 382 words ] [ $4,7 ]

ORGANIZATIONS

Washington
Tug-of-War Over Anti-Terrorist Data
The Democrat representative from North Carolina, Brad Miller , sent a lengthy letter on Aug. 21 to the inspector-general of the office of the director of national intelligence, Edward Maquire , to call for an inquiry into the workings of the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) data base operated by the National Counterterrorism Center . (...)  [ 115 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Beijing
Wider Remit for Military Security
On the morning of July 30, the security department that answers to the Peoples Liberation Army ’s political department launched an exercise from Beijing to prepare its services to protect their computer networks during the Olympic Games. (...)  [ 333 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Muscat
The Sultan Shakes Up Security Services
Holding his post since an abortive plot against the throne in 2005, the chief of Muscat's Internal Security Service , Abdallah bin Saleh al Habsi (IOL 500), was replaced during the summer by general Abdallah bin Rashed al Qalbani . (...)  [ 242 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Damascus
Death of a Security Strongman
With the assassination of Mohamed Suleiman, military adviser to president Bachar al Assad, Syria has lost the architect of its secret diplomacy. (...)  [ 271 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Paris
Bajolet Hands Out the Tasks
Taking up his post this summer, France’s new intelligence coordinator will if DCRI or DGSE takes the lead over a particular country and what priority is to be paid to technical operations. (...)  [ 239 words ] [ $4,7 ]

SIGNPOSTS
UNITED STATES - Freeze on Project for a Cyber Command
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LOOKING AHEAD
Paris - Commando Center in Djibouti To Survive Cutbacks
 [ 123 words ] [ $1,5 ]

London - Explaining the Routine at GCHQ
 [ 128 words ] [ $1,5 ]

Brussels - European Security Get-Together
 [ 124 words ] [ $1,5 ]

  Business Intelligence and Lobbying

Washington
Former Kroll Boss to Run USIS
A former chief of Kroll and then of its parent company, the insurance brokerage MMC, former prosecutor Michael Cherkasy has been named head of the US Investigation Services group. (...)  [ 246 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Paris
What Role for Private Military Firms?
The French defense ministry is currently mulling the out-sourcing of certain logistical services to the private sector. (...)  [ 283 words ] [ $4,7 ]

FIRMS

Tel Aviv
The Georgian Army’s Instructors
Private Israeli groups not only sold a lot of military equipment to Georgia (also see our exclusive report on Page 3) but also trained troops for Tbilisi. (...)  [ 190 words ] [ $4,7 ]

New York
IPSA Hires Long-Standing FBI Agent
Working all-out over recent years to expand its share of the market, the Canadian-American investigative and security concern IPSA International has just hired Dennis Lormel who had spent 28 years with the FBI . (...)  [ 182 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Beijing
Hill & Associates in Hiring Mode
The Hong Kong-based business intelligence and security concern Hill & Associates has just recruited Dave Somers who was security director for Ericsson Greater China over the past four years. (...)  [ 108 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Washington
High-Level Recruit for Cohen Group
The Cohen Group has just fleshed out its executive team by hiring the American army’s former procurements chief. (...)  [ 109 words ] [ $4,7 ]

Washington
Clarification Concerning Safir-Rosetti
Joseph Rosetti contacted Intelligence Online to state that we had mistakenly reported in our 571st issue that he had left Safir Rosetti ; indeed, he remains president of the company. (...)  [ 58 words ] [ FREE! ]

Washington
British Eye U.S. Intelligence Market
British companies are aiming to capitalize on runaway growth in the private U.S. intelligence market. (...)  [ 204 words ] [ $4,7 ]

DECISION MAKERS

Washington
James Pavitt
Deputy director of operations at the CIA under director George Tenet between 1999 and 2004, James Pavitt has just joined the board of CACI , one of the leading sub-constructors to the American intelligence community. (...)  [ 176 words ] [ $1,5 ]

London
Richard Mottram
Well established in the United Kingdom, the Spanish construction and infrastructure concern Grupo Ferrovial has been hiring executives familiar with the decision-making process in the defense and security fields in Britain. (...)  [ 192 words ] [ $1,5 ]

Brussels
EU to Fund Israeli Sensor Project
For the first time the European Commission is going to finance a security research program involving several Israeli companies. (...)  [ 228 words ] [ $4,7 ]

London
Hakluyt Founder Back in Business
Corporates for Crisis, the new firm of Christopher James, employs the same ingredients as his first company, Hakluyt: an innovative concept and well-connected mentors. (...)  [ 394 words ] [ $4,7 ]

SIGNPOSTS
UNITED KINGDOM - Clarification by Titon
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LOOKING AHEAD
Washington - US Army Seeks New Mouthpiece in Iraq
 [ 131 words ] [ $1,5 ]

London - MI6 Officers Take a Shine to Private Sector
 [ 124 words ] [ $1,5 ]

London - Looking Out for for Actis Fund
 [ 135 words ] [ $1,5 ]



 
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