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CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"

New CIA director Robert Gates' major task is down-scaling his service without losing terrain to Pentagon intelligence services, and particularly [...]

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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

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

According to several Intelligence Newsletter sources in Israel and Washington, the forthcoming departure of CIA station chief Stanley Moskovics in Tel Aviv will mark a significant change in the U.S. agency's policy towards Israeli and Arab negotiators.

Subscribers only 23.09.1999

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

Europe
THE KLA'S NETWORKS

Sources close to the German intelligence agencies say the CIA [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.1999

United States
U.S. MOUNTS WIDER DEFENSE

The Central Intelligence Agency is actively tracking nations that it believes to be pursuing offensive and defensive information warfare capability. [...]

Subscribers only 31.12.1998

United States
THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

A recent report by the General Accounting Office stated that the U.S. currently spends over $295 million annually on gleaning [...]

Subscribers only 01.10.1998

Iraq, United States
REPORT SLAMS FAULTY INTELLIGENCE IN GULF

In a report that has just been released, the Director of Central Intelligence's Persian Gulf War Illness Task Force declared [...]

Subscribers only 05.02.1998

United States
HOW THE DIA TRACKS TERRORISM

The Transnational Warfare Group has emerged as a key component in the Defence Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence owing to [...]

Subscribers only 25.09.1997

Japan
A DIA BOSS'S VAGUE MOMENTS

It's not all that usual for a high-ranking serving intelligence [...]

Subscribers only 30.10.1996

United States
DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

New evidence has emerged in Los Angeles that appears to [...]

Subscribers only 03.10.1996

United States
NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency began operating on Oct 1 less than a year after DCI John Deutch proposed [...]

Subscribers only 03.10.1996

United States
FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

Budget proposals recently submitted to Congress will enable the FBI to double the number of its offices abroad over the [...]

Subscribers only 05.09.1996

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
BARRY MCCAFFREY

President Bill Clinton has named Lt. Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a man some consider in line for the chairmanship of the [...]

Subscribers only 08.02.1996

Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

Erwin McDonald, a 43-year-old businessman of Surinamese/Dutch origin whose body was found on Oct. 17 at the Brokopondo dam south [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.1994

United States
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

On the face of it, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent Richard Horn is suing a State Department official and [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.1994

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

The Clinton administration has recently had to assure lawmakers that its new anti-drug policy will focus on disrupting drug production and trafficking organizations at the source in order to get additional money from Congress for counternarcotic activities.

Subscribers only 21.09.1994

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

East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

On the surface FBI Director Louis J. Freeh's whirlwind ten-day tour of nine countries in central and eastern Europe is [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1994

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

If the Cold War motto of American intelligence was "Beat the Reds" that has been replaced by "Follow the Money." The U.S. Treasury Department has become a new, fully-fledged member of the American intelligence community on equal footing with the [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 08.06.1994

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Below the Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN, see "Spotlight" in [...]

Subscribers only 09.03.1994

Spotlight | United States
FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

One of the world's most technology-intensive and least known intelligence services, the American Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been functioning since October 1993 without a director after moving into its new headquarters in Vienna, Virginia, near the CIA in [.

Subscribers only 23.02.1994

United States
NO FBI-DEA MERGER

After very serious talk of incorporating all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) activities into the FBI, largely for reasons of cost [...]

Subscribers only 24.11.1993

United States
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

Several months after it opened, the $50 million National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) is as isolated from the war on [...]

Subscribers only 24.11.1993

United States
INTELLIGENCE BUDGET BATTLE

CIA Director James Woolsey lobbied furiously in the Senate recently to prevent a cut in the intelligence budget. But he [...]

Subscribers only 28.07.1993

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

Russia, United States
CIA TO THE RESCUE

Chief topics of discussion between the CIA and the Russian [...]

Subscribers only 02.12.1992

Israel
BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

The American FBI suspects that a Tel Aviv-based Israeli money laundering ring which is processing as much as $200 million [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1992

Spotlight | Netherlands
CRISIS SITUATION

The Dutch intelligence community is in full crisis following a series of leaks, revelations, re-shuffles and reforms. The internal security service, Binnenlandse Veiligheidienst (BVD) recently "flunked" its first public report entitled Developments in the Area of Internal Security (I.

Subscribers only 11.03.1992

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North Korea, Russia Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

Ukraine Jamming wars

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

Europe, Russia Chechen separatism, the anti-Putin trump card

France Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

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 CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"

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United States FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

Spotlight | Middle East, United States NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

United States COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

Europe THE KLA'S NETWORKS

United States U.S. MOUNTS WIDER DEFENSE

United States THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

Iraq, United States REPORT SLAMS FAULTY INTELLIGENCE IN GULF

United States HOW THE DIA TRACKS TERRORISM

Japan A DIA BOSS'S VAGUE MOMENTS

United States DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

United States NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

United States FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

Spotlight | United States DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

United States BARRY MCCAFFREY

Netherlands COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Spotlight | United States NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

United States DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

East Europe U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Spotlight | United States INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Spotlight | United States FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

United States NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

United States INTELLIGENCE BUDGET BATTLE

Spotlight | United States HOSTAGES: IAN SPIRO'S SECRETS

Russia, United States CIA TO THE RESCUE

Israel BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

Spotlight | Netherlands CRISIS SITUATION

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North Korea, Russia
Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

Ukraine
Jamming wars

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

Europe, Russia
Chechen separatism, the anti-Putin trump card

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

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
CIA LOOKING FOR A "RAISON D'ETRE"

United States
FRESH TWIST IN CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
NEW TWIST IN CIA-PLO RELATIONS

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States
WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME

Europe
THE KLA'S NETWORKS

United States
U.S. MOUNTS WIDER DEFENSE

United States
THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

Iraq, United States
REPORT SLAMS FAULTY INTELLIGENCE IN GULF

United States
HOW THE DIA TRACKS TERRORISM

Japan
A DIA BOSS'S VAGUE MOMENTS

United States
DRUGS CHARGE AGAINST CIA

United States
NIMA SWINGS INTO ACTION

United States
FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

Spotlight | United States
DEUTCH FORGES A REAL "COMMUNITY"

United States
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

United States
DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Spotlight | United States
INTELLIGENCE: "FOLLOW THE MONEY"

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

Spotlight | United States
FINCEN (I): FINANCIAL DATA VACUUMCLEANER

United States
NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

United States
INTELLIGENCE BUDGET BATTLE

Spotlight | United States
HOSTAGES: IAN SPIRO'S SECRETS

Russia, United States
CIA TO THE RESCUE

Israel
BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING

Spotlight | Netherlands
CRISIS SITUATION