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SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

In late August the CIA declassified over 200 articles that appeared in its secret in-house journal, Studies on Intelligence, between [...]

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United Kingdom
Latest Word in Counter-Measures

The highly particular market for radio frequency counter-measures has been thrown into a tizzy.

Subscribers only 31.01.2002

United States
3D MAPS FOR NIMA

NASA will launch its Shuttle Radar Topography Mission from its [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

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

Spotlight | United States
DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

A flurry of recent ballistic weapons tests highlights the importance of an obscure intelligence organization that is soon to celebrate its 35th anniversary in helping the U.S. to monitor new missile developments across the world.

Subscribers only 26.11.1998

United States
LIFTING VEIL ON SATELLITE OPERATION

In an unprecedented move, the National Reconnaissance Office has revealed the award of a contract for a yet-to-be built satellite [...]

Subscribers only 30.07.1998

Norway
STANDING GUARD IN SPACE

If the Norwegian parliament approves funding, the U.S. will transfer a new radar system originally intended for intelligence collection in [...]

Subscribers only 16.07.1998

Spotlight | United States
HOW PEACE-KEEPERS GLEAN VITAL INTELLIGENCE

Over the past few years the CIA has worked to compensate for the closure of about 15 stations in Africa by relying heavily on military travelers to provide both political intelligence and information to support American military operations on the [.

Subscribers only 02.07.1998

United States
A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

A key element in the management of the U.S. signals intelligence effort, the National SIGINT Committee, has undergone a number [...]

Subscribers only 19.03.1998

United States
WHAT NON-NRO SATELLITES DO

Most of the space intelligence for the U.S. intelligence community originates from the National Reconnaissance Office's fleet of imagery and [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1998

Spotlight | Europe, United States
SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK

Space-based intelligence is set to become a commodity like any other this year. Apart from a few exceptions (Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea) military and civil intelligence agencies across the globe will be able to buy high definition imagery [.

Subscribers only 08.01.1998

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
SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

The National Security Agency is radically overhauling the structure of its Directorate of Operations, ending the latter's 45-year-long practice of [...]

Subscribers only 04.12.1997

United States
ZEROING IN ON SCUDS

Harkening back once again to the Gulf War, the U.S. intelligence community is continuing to make efforts to improve ways [...]

Subscribers only 09.10.1997

United States
NEW ACCENT ON HUMINT

The intelligence committees in both the House and Senate have lent strong backing to the Clinton administration's bid to boost [...]

Subscribers only 12.06.1997

United States
PORTER GOSS

Named by speaker Newt Gringrich as president of the House's Select Committee on Intelligence on Jan. 27, Porter Goss, aged [...]

Subscribers only 13.02.1997

United States
JOINING BATTLE AGAINST WMD

Two little-known committees attached to the National Intelligence Council have emerged as key players in the on-going U.S. intelligence effort [...]

Subscribers only 12.12.1996

Spotlight | United States
GAO ASSAILS QUALITY OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE

The General Accounting Office (GAO) has just published a highly unusual report that, for the first time, evaluates the quality of "National Intelligence Estimates" (NIE) destined for the U S president and the National Security Council.

Subscribers only 17.10.1996

United States
JEFFREY HARRIS

Jeffrey Harris, who is slated on July 29 to become president of Space Imaging, one of a string of ambitious [...]

Subscribers only 18.07.1996

United States
TAKING "C" OUT OF COVERT

Talks between the Defense Department, CIA and office of the Director of Central Intelligence about a possible CIA takeover of [...]

Subscribers only 06.06.1996

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

Spotlight | United States
CIA CHIEF'S POWER PLAY

The U.S. intelligence community and legislators are thrashing out ideas in preparation for a major shake-up of American intelligence later this year or early in 1997. In a hearing on Dec. 19 before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, [.

Subscribers only 25.01.1996

United States
SPLITTING THE BURDEN

Among the many proposals doing the rounds in Washington as the U.S. prepares to overhaul its intelligence agencies from top [...]

Subscribers only 25.01.1996

United States
MILITARY BETTER AT COVERT WORK

The reason that U.S. HUMINT is being revamped and the Pentagon is receiving a bigger share of the action is [...]

Subscribers only 07.12.1995

United States
AIDE SLAMS MILITARY "TAKEOVER"

A former CIA deputy director, Richard Kerr, told the House intelligence committee on Nov. 16 that he was worried over [...]

Subscribers only 23.11.1995

United States
KEEPING LID ON FRONT COMPANIES

Congress has shown some wariness over at least one striking aspect of a plan by CIA director John Deutch to [...]

Subscribers only 09.11.1995

United States
HAROLD BROWN

President Bill Clinton has nominated Harold Brown, who served as Secretary of Defence under Jimmy Carter, as head of the [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1995

United States
ARGUMENT OVER SHOOTDOWN WARNING

A sharp controversy has arisen over how much of a warning U.S. pilot Scott O'Grady had before his F-16 fighter [...]

Subscribers only 13.07.1995

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 Kingdom
BRITISH SEEK ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD

Britain wants to develop a anti-missile shield to defend the country from possible attack by a rogue regime in North [...]

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

Spotlight | United States
NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

The CIA has weathered what is probably its deepest crisis in its 50-odd year existence. Seldom before had its morale been so low, its aims so criticized, its bureaucracy so out of hand and its scandals as numerous (Aldrich Ames [.

Subscribers only 10.05.1995

France, Germany
NO WORRY ABOUT SPACE PACT

French experts don't seem worried about the current freeze on talks about merging the space and missile businesses of France's [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 26.04.1995

France, Germany
PUTTING BONN INTO THE PICTURE

Germany is expected to formally announce in March that it will take part in the French-led Helios 2 observation satellite [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 15.02.1995

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

Spotlight | France
DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

The French DGSE foreign intelligence service is going to recruit 500 additional civilian personnel over the next five years. This decision went unnoticed in the midst of a wealth of measures which formed part of a military spending plan recently [.

Subscribers only 20.07.1994

Russia
MISSILE AND SPACE BUSINESS WITH U.S.

According to the Russian press, the American company Douglas has [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1994

United States
NRO FINALLY GETS A BOSS

Over a year ago Intelligence Newsletter announced that budget and bureaucratic problems had left the super-secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) [...]

Subscribers only 22.06.1994

United States
ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR INTELLIGENCE?

In our preceding issue we described the intelligence advantages of multispectral analysis of satellite imagery (I.N. n. 239). At the [...]

Subscribers only 04.05.1994

United States
ISRAEL, INMAN & POLLARD

On 18 January Israel announced that the Clinton administration was giving in to a long-standing request to relax restrictions on [...]

Subscribers only 09.02.1994

United States
MISSILE-PROOF RADAR SYSTEMS

The U.S. Army is currently testing Raytheon's new Multi-Role Survivable Radar (MRSR) system which anti-radar missiles supposedly can't track down [...]

Subscribers only 09.02.1994

United States
MISSILES AGAINST CIVIL AVIATION

Several months ago, well before the recent American intelligence budget debate, the CIA had requested extra funds to buy back [...]

Subscribers only 01.09.1993

Spotlight | France, United States
PRE-COMPETITIVENESS

The Paris Air Show at Le Bourget was billed in the major media as a hotbed of French industrial espionage, especially against American high tech companies (I.N. n. 217). But on the contrary, the Le Bourget show has marked the [.

Subscribers only 30.06.1993

United States
COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

The recent hearings before the U.S. Senate Government Affairs Committee furnished an unprecedented occasion to compare high-quality intelligence on threat [...]

Subscribers only 17.03.1993

United Kingdom, United States
THREE ORIGINAL USES

Three original uses of radar have made the news recently. The British firms dB Electronics and Thorn EMI have developed [...]

Subscribers only 03.03.1993

Spotlight | United States
COCOM II READY

The United States has quietly taken a major step towards installing a "COCOM II" as a follow up to the now outdated Cold War COCOM. In one go it has established an agency for the protection and management of all [.

Subscribers only 17.02.1993

United States
FRANK B. HORTON

Major General Frank B. "Barry" Horton III has been appointed director of intelligence, J-2, of the U.S. Strategic Command at [...]

Subscribers only 23.09.1992

Spotlight | France, United States
CONSTRAINED COOPERATION

The well-known and thoroughly analyzed animosity and aggressiveness over economic, defense, security and intelligence matters between the United States and France is only the tip of the iceberg. Major strategic changes taking place in these areas since the end of [.

Subscribers only 26.08.1992

Russia
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM?

The July rendezvous in space between Progress 13 and the [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1992

United States
CIA LOSES IMAGERY TO PENTAGON

The recent announcement that a new Central Imagery Office (CIO) will be housed in the Pentagon is far more than [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1992

Spotlight | United States
COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE

A largely ignored report by a group of former senior U.S. officials urging stricter rules for covert operations may yet attract the attention of policy makers if the next chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee cannot maintain the cordial relations [.

Subscribers only 24.06.1992

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United States KEEPING LID ON FRONT COMPANIES

United States HAROLD BROWN

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United States CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

United Kingdom BRITISH SEEK ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD

United States JOHN DEUTCH

Spotlight | United States NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

France, Germany NO WORRY ABOUT SPACE PACT

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United States NRO FINALLY GETS A BOSS

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The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

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Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Ukraine
Jamming wars

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
SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

United Kingdom
Latest Word in Counter-Measures

United States
3D MAPS FOR NIMA

United States
TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States
DEFSMAC A QUIET HERO IN ANTI-PROLIFERATION FIGHT

United States
LIFTING VEIL ON SATELLITE OPERATION

Norway
STANDING GUARD IN SPACE

Spotlight | United States
HOW PEACE-KEEPERS GLEAN VITAL INTELLIGENCE

United States
A GLIMPSE AT AMERICAN SIGINT

United States
WHAT NON-NRO SATELLITES DO

Spotlight | Europe, United States
SPACE INTELLIGENCE ON AUCTION BLOCK

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States
SWEEPING OVERHAUL FOR NSA

United States
ZEROING IN ON SCUDS

United States
NEW ACCENT ON HUMINT

United States
PORTER GOSS

United States
JOINING BATTLE AGAINST WMD

Spotlight | United States
GAO ASSAILS QUALITY OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States
JEFFREY HARRIS

United States
TAKING "C" OUT OF COVERT

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

Spotlight | United States
CIA CHIEF'S POWER PLAY

United States
SPLITTING THE BURDEN

United States
MILITARY BETTER AT COVERT WORK

United States
AIDE SLAMS MILITARY "TAKEOVER"

United States
KEEPING LID ON FRONT COMPANIES

United States
HAROLD BROWN

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ARGUMENT OVER SHOOTDOWN WARNING

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CALL FOR SEPARATE SPACE BUDGET

United Kingdom
BRITISH SEEK ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD

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JOHN DEUTCH

Spotlight | United States
NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

France, Germany
NO WORRY ABOUT SPACE PACT

France, Germany
PUTTING BONN INTO THE PICTURE

Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

Spotlight | France
DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

Russia
MISSILE AND SPACE BUSINESS WITH U.S.

United States
NRO FINALLY GETS A BOSS

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ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR INTELLIGENCE?

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ISRAEL, INMAN & POLLARD

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MISSILE-PROOF RADAR SYSTEMS

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MISSILES AGAINST CIVIL AVIATION

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PRE-COMPETITIVENESS

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COMPARATIVE THREAT ANALYSIS

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THREE ORIGINAL USES

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COCOM II READY

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COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE