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ROGER TAMRAZ

In suddenly popping up on the American political scene in the scandal over the financing of the Democrat Party's 1996 [...]

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France
Gaith Pharaon Advertises His Virtues

A Saudi Arabian businessman whose name has been tied to a number of legal affairs has taken a simple but effective step to state his case.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 18.10.2001

Egypt
SECRET GATHERING AGAINST TERRORISM

Senior officials from many countries met in secret in Cairo at the CIA's invitation on Oct. 30-31 to moot the [...]

Subscribers only 18.11.1999

Albania
WESTERN SPY STAMPEDE

Albania has become a prime observation post for the U.S., British, French and Italian intelligence agencies to keep an eye [...]

Subscribers only 09.09.1999

Africa, France
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM SIRVEN'S FRIENDS

According to the French police sources, former Elf managing director Alfred Sirven is thought to have been helped to drop [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.1999

France
INTELLIGENCE TAUGHT AT ST. CYR

Intelligence history now officially forms part of the curriculum for cadets at the celebrated French military college of St. Cyr-Coetquidan. [...]

Subscribers only 25.02.1999

France
A "JOKER" AT ARMAMENTS BOARD?

Experts associated with France's Centre des Hautes Etudes de l'Armement (CHEAr: Center for Armaments Studies) have come up with a [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 28.01.1999

United States
ARMOR HOLDINGS BUY PARVUS

The forthcoming acquisition of the business intelligence company Parvus by Armor Holdings, a company that specializes in security services and [...]

Subscribers only 10.12.1998

United States
KEEPING CLOSER WATCH ON ENVIRONMENT

The U.S. intelligence community's increasing focus on environmental intelligence was underlined by last year's move to establish a DCI Environmental [...]

Subscribers only 05.03.1998

Spotlight | Europe, United States
CALL FOR NEW-STYLE EXPORT CLAMPS

With the world's attention currently fixed again on Iraq's clandestine ballistic missile, chemical and germ warfare program most Western countries are clamoring for the introduction of a fresh export control system for dual use goods.

Subscribers only 19.02.1998

France
CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

The appointment of gen. Patrice de Loustal, who was head [...]

Subscribers only 09.10.1997

United States
BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Set up last December, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) that aims to hammer out a national strategy [...]

Subscribers only 13.03.1997

Spotlight | United States
CLINTON'S GLOBAL-MINDED SECURITY TEAM

The make-up of the new "security team" appointed by President Bill Clinton on Dec. 5 offers a clear idea of the priorities he has chosen for his second mandate. Clinton's first four years were devoted essentially to the economy:

Subscribers only 12.12.1996

European Union, United States
EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

When a working group set up by the European Union, the U.S. and Canada on Iran meets in Rome in [...]

Subscribers only 25.01.1996

Spotlight | France, UAE
FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

Signed very discreetly on Dec. 20, a document laying down the "ways and means" of implementing a defence treaty concluded between France and the United Arab Emirates in January 1995 marks a decisive victory for Paris in the battle that [.

Subscribers only 11.01.1996

Spotlight | France, United States
FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE

By demanding in spectacular fashion that the American authorities quickly recall five CIA agents, including the Paris station chief, the French government did nothing so much as underline its own incapacity to come to grips with American spying in France.

Subscribers only 01.03.1995

France
JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT

Accused of spying for France's DGSE by Texas Instruments (TI), Jean-Piere Dolait probably owes his sudden exposure to the limelight [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

Spotlight | Europe, United States
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SEEKING SECOND WINDS

There's a good chance that within the next decade business intelligence will figure high on the curriculum of universities that teach management. For the moment, however, a major gap exists between intelligence experts who try to anticipate the future needs [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 14.12.1994

Spotlight | Sudan
FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

The release of French hostages in Lebanon in 1988 was achieved by secret non-governmental networks set up by Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. But this time the kidnapping of Carlos (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) in Sudan on 14 August was not a [.

Subscribers only 07.09.1994

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 | Germany
INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

Like many other intelligence services the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is involved in a serious debate concerning possible future involvement in economic intelligence. According to an internal document signed by the BND operations chief, Volker Foertsch, the service should begin furnishing [.

Subscribers only 26.01.1994

Spotlight | France
MIDDLE ROAD FOR THE DGSE

With the 3 June appointment of Prefect Jacques Dewatre as director of DGSE foreign intelligence, the French government has chosen a middle road which it considers to be best solution at present. Son of an officer, and himself a graduate [.

Subscribers only 16.06.1993

France, United States
A "MULTIPLE WARHEAD" MESSAGE

By launching a media campaign against French industrial espionage in the United Stats a few weeks before the Paris air [...]

Subscribers only 12.05.1993

France, United States
IMAGINARY SPIES

As could be expected, French DGSE foreign intelligence is really [...]

Subscribers only 14.04.1993

Spotlight | Israel
"SELECTED" PRIVATIZERS

As Israel steps up the pace of privatization to modernize its state-controlled economy, Israeli authorities appear to be resorting to their old habit of spinning off state-owned enterprises to "selected" arms dealers and cutouts who have proven their reliability to [.

Subscribers only 23.09.1992

Spotlight | Switzerland
BCCI: SWISS MYSTERIES

Almost a year after the BCCI scandal broke, the Swiss subsidiary of the bank, the Banque de Commerce et de Placement (BCP), remains shrouded in secrecy. The next few months, however, may bring new revelations.

Subscribers only 27.05.1992

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TEXACO TO DRILL ON AGBAMI WITH GLOMAR EXPLORER

The drillship Glomar Explorer will mobilise from the U.S. Gulf [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 31.03.1999

SECRET CONTACTS WITH PARIS

Special missions to Paris by Sudanese officials from various sectors (ministerial, military, secret service) have multiplied over recent months. In addition to the Sudanese generals who visited France's defence ministry at the beginning of December (ION N° 601) and the [.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 29.01.1994

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

China, Europe Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

North Korea, Russia 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

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France Gaith Pharaon Advertises His Virtues

Egypt SECRET GATHERING AGAINST TERRORISM

Albania WESTERN SPY STAMPEDE

Africa, France WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM SIRVEN'S FRIENDS

France INTELLIGENCE TAUGHT AT ST. CYR

France A "JOKER" AT ARMAMENTS BOARD?

United States ARMOR HOLDINGS BUY PARVUS

United States KEEPING CLOSER WATCH ON ENVIRONMENT

Spotlight | Europe, United States CALL FOR NEW-STYLE EXPORT CLAMPS

France CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

United States BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Spotlight | United States CLINTON'S GLOBAL-MINDED SECURITY TEAM

European Union, United States EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

Spotlight | France, UAE FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

Spotlight | France, United States FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE

France JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT

Spotlight | Europe, United States BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SEEKING SECOND WINDS

Spotlight | Sudan FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

Spotlight | France DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

Spotlight | Germany INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

Spotlight | France MIDDLE ROAD FOR THE DGSE

France, United States A "MULTIPLE WARHEAD" MESSAGE

France, United States IMAGINARY SPIES

Spotlight | Israel "SELECTED" PRIVATIZERS

Spotlight | Switzerland BCCI: SWISS MYSTERIES

TEXACO TO DRILL ON AGBAMI WITH GLOMAR EXPLORER

SECRET CONTACTS WITH PARIS

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

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

North Korea, Russia
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
ROGER TAMRAZ

France
Gaith Pharaon Advertises His Virtues

Egypt
SECRET GATHERING AGAINST TERRORISM

Albania
WESTERN SPY STAMPEDE

Africa, France
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM SIRVEN'S FRIENDS

France
INTELLIGENCE TAUGHT AT ST. CYR

France
A "JOKER" AT ARMAMENTS BOARD?

United States
ARMOR HOLDINGS BUY PARVUS

United States
KEEPING CLOSER WATCH ON ENVIRONMENT

Spotlight | Europe, United States
CALL FOR NEW-STYLE EXPORT CLAMPS

France
CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

United States
BETTER SHIELD FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Spotlight | United States
CLINTON'S GLOBAL-MINDED SECURITY TEAM

European Union, United States
EUROPE-U.S. RIFT ON IRAN

Spotlight | France, UAE
FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

Spotlight | France, United States
FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE

France
JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT

Spotlight | Europe, United States
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SEEKING SECOND WINDS

Spotlight | Sudan
FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

Spotlight | France
DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

Spotlight | Germany
INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

Spotlight | France
MIDDLE ROAD FOR THE DGSE

France, United States
A "MULTIPLE WARHEAD" MESSAGE

France, United States
IMAGINARY SPIES

Spotlight | Israel
"SELECTED" PRIVATIZERS

Spotlight | Switzerland
BCCI: SWISS MYSTERIES