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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 [...]

Published on 02/07/1998 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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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
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
SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

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

Subscribers only 11.09.1997

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
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

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

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

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 [.

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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

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 [.

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HOW PEACE-KEEPERS GLEAN VITAL INTELLIGENCE

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TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

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SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

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NEW ACCENT ON HUMINT

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PORTER GOSS

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TAKING "C" OUT OF COVERT

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

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SPLITTING THE BURDEN

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MILITARY BETTER AT COVERT WORK

United States
AIDE SLAMS MILITARY "TAKEOVER"

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KEEPING LID ON FRONT COMPANIES

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NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

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U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

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DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

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COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE

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United States TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

United States NEW ACCENT ON HUMINT

United States PORTER GOSS

United States TAKING "C" OUT OF COVERT

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

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

Spotlight | United States NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

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

Spotlight | France DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

Spotlight | United States COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE

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

Ukraine
Jamming wars

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

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

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

Spotlight | United States
HOW PEACE-KEEPERS GLEAN VITAL INTELLIGENCE

United States
TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

United States
SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

United States
NEW ACCENT ON HUMINT

United States
PORTER GOSS

United States
TAKING "C" OUT OF COVERT

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

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

Spotlight | United States
NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

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

Spotlight | France
DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

Spotlight | United States
COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE