Over the past three years, intelligence agencies, investigative firms and legal experts have all been caught up in a business struggle complete with dirty tricks, destabilization tactics, legal action and denunciations. The protagonists are the managers of a small French [.
A close look at information contained in financial data banks (Thomson One Banker, Zephyr and the like) reveals the frequency and high level of ties between The Carlyle Group and France's Credit Lyonnais bank.
The British military research company QinetiQ which was privatized in [...]
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According to Jordanian intelligence, which counts among the best informed about the Sunni resistance in Iraq, four main groups dominate the scene. They are:
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Rivalry between Chinese president Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, has taken an unexpected turn with Jiang's wish to see his protégé, Zeng Qinghong, become vice chairman of the Central Military Committee (CMC) over which he presides.
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International pressure is building up on a Dubai-based company considered as a trading hub for Saddam Hussein. But Dubai's crown prince seems determined to protect it.
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A huge international traffic in nuclear technologies and materials established by Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, has begun to be dismantled.
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During a secret "mobilization" meeting on Aug. 16 with students [...]
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Armaments circles in Paris spent a lot of time early [...]
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The General Accounting Office (GAO) has concluded that the move [...]
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A think-tank made up of government and private-sector experts, Serendip, has proposed a new European security doctrine that breaks with American thinking.
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With the European system of swapping pollution quotas set to take effect on Jan. 1, the United Kingdom and France are competing to house the headquarters of the future quotas exchange.
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A founder of DSL and ex head of Kroll's office in London, Patrick Grayson has teamed up with two young executives from the American firm to found a company devoted exclusively to investigations.
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Set up by a network of lawyers, an American organization named TRACE is offering to carry out background checks on intermediaries that multinational companies use and to inform firms on how to abide by anti-corruption laws.
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Patrick Jourdan, the chief operating officer of EADS' Defense and [...]
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StoneBridge International, a company founded by Bill Clinton's former national [...]
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Boss of Fleishman Hillard France between 2001-2003, Christine Chauvet, former [...]
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A former executive at Bae, Kim & Lee in Seoul, [...]
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In a new move to beef up its team of lobbyists, EADS North America, the American affiliate of the European [...]
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Targeted by all the current investigations into the U.N.'s defunct Oil for Food program (see IOL 480), a Swiss inspection [...]
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The French business intelligence firm ADIT, which is wholly owned by the French government, has just hired the former deputy [...]
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Switzerland's chief prosecutor, Valentin Roschacher, has just turned a terrorism case over to a federal examining magistrate for the very [...]
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Iran believes that its arrest of 11 operatives from the People's Mujahideen in Arak and Isfahan on Aug. 11 offers [...]
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The US Air Force is going to conduct a world-wide, communications security test during the next exercise of the Joint [...]
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The former chief of Interpol's Criminal Intelligence Directorate, the U.S. [...]
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A Secret Service veteran and ex chief of the Department [...]
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The French government named a senior armaments aide, 52-year-old Patrick [...]
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The head of Jordan's special forces, brigadier general Ahmed Sarhan [...]
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