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END OF SECRET "SNATCHINGS"?

On 9 July Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain filed suit against the U.S. government, six Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and [...]

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United States
BACKDOORS USED IN OPERATION

According to American experts, a law enforcement drive spearheaded by [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1999

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

Thailand
BETTER COORDINATION AGAINST GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRAFFIC

The American DEA and FBI agencies are planning to set [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.1999

Myanmar
INTERPOL CONFERENCE IN RANGOON BOYCOTTED

Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Ireland and then Belgian, the [...]

Subscribers only 11.02.1999

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

Europe, United States
DUTCH TRACK COLONIAL CONNECTION

The multinational Joint Inter Agency Task Force (JIATF) that is widely regarded as the front line in the West's war [...]

Subscribers only 30.07.1998

France
FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

The FOPAC group in Interpol that sees particularly to money laundering issues met behind closed doors for its annual autumn [...]

Subscribers only 06.11.1997

United States
DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

A team from the American Drug Enforcement Administration arrived discreetly [...]

Subscribers only 12.06.1997

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

Ireland
MAJOR COCAINE BUST IN IRELAND

The seizure of 50 kilos of high-grade cocaine in the tiny port of Moneypoint on the west coast of Ireland [...]

Subscribers only 05.09.1996

Netherlands
SILENT PARTNERS

One fallout from the various "controlled" drug import operations that [...]

Subscribers only 06.06.1996

United Kingdom
POLICE FOR SALE -- LEGALLY

A proposal to allow many of the 43 local police forces in England and Wales to become "self-financing organizations" and [...]

Subscribers only 23.11.1995

United States
THE GHOST OF BARRY SEAL

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has begun pouring through the bank accounts of Barry Adler Seal after several of the [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

United States
FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will shortly [...]

Subscribers only 29.06.1995

Netherlands
NO DUTCH DAM FOR DRUGS TIDE

In a new twist to a striking tale, the influential Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsbad reported on May 26 that a [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

United States
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEA

Worried over the attention paid in the media to organizations [...]

Subscribers only 15.02.1995

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

Central America
DISAPPEARANCES AND DEALINGS

On 13 October a professional assassin used an infrared night vision scope and a machine-pistol to shoot dead Saint Kitts' [...]

Subscribers only 02.11.1994

United States
DEA ROLES UP CALI NETWORKS

Last week the DEA indicted a number of people who [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.1994

Netherlands
JOHAN VAN DAMME

Johan van Damme, 59-year old Dutch businessman waiting to be executed at Changi Prison, Singapore, has recently claimed he is [...]

Subscribers only 21.09.1994

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
NEW DEA FIRST STRING

DEA administrator Thomas A. Constantine recently put together a veteran [...]

Subscribers only 07.09.1994

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

United States
CUSTOMS SINKING CLIPPER?

The Clinton administration's highly contested Clipper Chip public encryption system (I.N. n. 241 & 242) may be taking the deep [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1994

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

Netherlands
GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SURINAM?

The Hague police's " CoPa" (Cocaine-Paramaribo) team, after several years of trying to unravel Surinamese involvement in international cocaine trafficking, [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1994

United States
DEA CUTS "LEGALIZE" MARIJUANA?

Budget cuts at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are resulting in a selective anti-drug policy which tends to leave [...]

Subscribers only 04.05.1994

United States
SECRET DEA REPORT ON CHINESE TRIAD

Intelligence Newsletter has obtained a classified DEA report which shows [...]

Subscribers only 04.05.1994

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

United States
TOURIST CAMOUFLAGE

The American DEA recently revealed that in the last year [...]

Subscribers only 23.02.1994

Netherlands
CORRUPTION, COKE & THE DEA

Dutch police and intelligence have been rocked by two major scandals that blew up recently. The first involves the country's [...]

Subscribers only 09.02.1994

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
DEA CATCHES ITS OWN

Rene DeLaCova, the DEA agent who placed Panamanian strongman Manuel [...]

Subscribers only 10.11.1993

United States
LESTER KNOX COLEMAN III

Lester Knox Coleman III, a former DEA and DIA informant who worked in Beirut and claims that the bombers of [...]

Subscribers only 27.10.1993

United States
A DEA-FBI-BATF MERGER?

Major opposition has already arison against the administration's proposal last week to merge both the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and [...]

Subscribers only 15.09.1993

United States
SHAKEUP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

Following major incidents such as the bloody Waco, Texas, raid against the Branch Dividian sect and the firing of FBI [...]

Subscribers only 28.07.1993

United States
POOR RESULTS IN THE DRUG WAR

Two reports criticizing the drug war have come out at [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.1993

United States
DEA CATCHES DUTCH MERCHANTS

Two Amsterdam tropical fruit merchants, owners of Rowenda Ltd. and identified only as Cor de J. (40) and Chris M. [...]

Subscribers only 31.03.1993

Netherlands
THE STRANGE CASE OF S.K.A. BROWN

Two bodyguards, George Elsing and Geurt Roos, employed by drug trafficker Steve Kees Aäron Brown have gone public with information [...]

Subscribers only 03.03.1993

United States
DEA STANDS TO WIN SOME AND TO LOSE SOME

According to U.S. News & World Report, the Drug Enforcement [...]

Subscribers only 20.01.1993

Panama
ROGELIO CRUZ

Attorney General Rogelio Cruz may have been acting in league with the Cali cocaine cartel of Colombia when he unfroze [...]

Subscribers only 16.12.1992

United States
DEA'S "LEGAL" KIDNAPPING

Anxiety lurks beneath the evident ideological satisfaction of some Bush administration officials with the Supreme Court's 15 June ruling that [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1992

Iran, United States
MAMOUD REZA PAHLAVI

Mamoud Reza Pahlavi, brother of the late Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, is keeping company with the thousands of people [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.1992

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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

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United States END OF SECRET "SNATCHINGS"?

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United States BACKDOORS USED IN OPERATION

United States COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

Thailand BETTER COORDINATION AGAINST GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRAFFIC

Myanmar INTERPOL CONFERENCE IN RANGOON BOYCOTTED

United States THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

Europe, United States DUTCH TRACK COLONIAL CONNECTION

France FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

United States DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

United States FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

Ireland MAJOR COCAINE BUST IN IRELAND

Netherlands SILENT PARTNERS

United Kingdom POLICE FOR SALE -- LEGALLY

United States THE GHOST OF BARRY SEAL

United States FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

Netherlands NO DUTCH DAM FOR DRUGS TIDE

United States PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEA

Netherlands COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Central America DISAPPEARANCES AND DEALINGS

United States DEA ROLES UP CALI NETWORKS

Netherlands JOHAN VAN DAMME

Spotlight | United States NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

United States NEW DEA FIRST STRING

United States DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

United States CUSTOMS SINKING CLIPPER?

East Europe U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Netherlands GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SURINAM?

United States DEA CUTS "LEGALIZE" MARIJUANA?

United States SECRET DEA REPORT ON CHINESE TRIAD

United States FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

United States TOURIST CAMOUFLAGE

Netherlands CORRUPTION, COKE & THE DEA

United States NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

United States DEA CATCHES ITS OWN

United States LESTER KNOX COLEMAN III

United States A DEA-FBI-BATF MERGER?

United States SHAKEUP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

United States POOR RESULTS IN THE DRUG WAR

United States DEA CATCHES DUTCH MERCHANTS

Netherlands THE STRANGE CASE OF S.K.A. BROWN

United States DEA STANDS TO WIN SOME AND TO LOSE SOME

Panama ROGELIO CRUZ

United States DEA'S "LEGAL" KIDNAPPING

Iran, United States MAMOUD REZA PAHLAVI

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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

United States
END OF SECRET "SNATCHINGS"?

United States
BACKDOORS USED IN OPERATION

United States
COMPANIES LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

Thailand
BETTER COORDINATION AGAINST GOLDEN TRIANGLE TRAFFIC

Myanmar
INTERPOL CONFERENCE IN RANGOON BOYCOTTED

United States
THE FACTS AND FIGURES OF ANTI-DRUG WAR

Europe, United States
DUTCH TRACK COLONIAL CONNECTION

France
FOPAC STEPS UP THE PRESSURE

United States
DEA TRAINS ISRAELIS

United States
FBI SPINS ITS WEB ABROAD

Ireland
MAJOR COCAINE BUST IN IRELAND

Netherlands
SILENT PARTNERS

United Kingdom
POLICE FOR SALE -- LEGALLY

United States
THE GHOST OF BARRY SEAL

United States
FINCEN OBTAINING DEA DATA

Netherlands
NO DUTCH DAM FOR DRUGS TIDE

United States
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEA

Netherlands
COMMANDER PACO'S DEMISE

United States
DEA'S FIGHT AGAINST INTERFERENCE

Central America
DISAPPEARANCES AND DEALINGS

United States
DEA ROLES UP CALI NETWORKS

Netherlands
JOHAN VAN DAMME

Spotlight | United States
NEW ANTI-DRUG STRATEGY

United States
NEW DEA FIRST STRING

United States
DOD HITS SPIES FOR DISCRIMINATION

United States
CUSTOMS SINKING CLIPPER?

East Europe
U.S. INTEL JUNKET TO THE EAST

Netherlands
GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SURINAM?

United States
DEA CUTS "LEGALIZE" MARIJUANA?

United States
SECRET DEA REPORT ON CHINESE TRIAD

United States
FINCEN (II) - STRUCTURE AND PLANS

United States
TOURIST CAMOUFLAGE

Netherlands
CORRUPTION, COKE & THE DEA

United States
NO FBI-DEA MERGER

United States
WHAT DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER?

United States
DEA CATCHES ITS OWN

United States
LESTER KNOX COLEMAN III

United States
A DEA-FBI-BATF MERGER?

United States
SHAKEUP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

United States
POOR RESULTS IN THE DRUG WAR

United States
DEA CATCHES DUTCH MERCHANTS

Netherlands
THE STRANGE CASE OF S.K.A. BROWN

United States
DEA STANDS TO WIN SOME AND TO LOSE SOME

Panama
ROGELIO CRUZ

United States
DEA'S "LEGAL" KIDNAPPING

Iran, United States
MAMOUD REZA PAHLAVI