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DULAC CONNECTION GETS DISCONNECTED

The young Comoros Islands judges who carried out a "Clean Hands" judicial operation in Moroni in May 1997 which turned out to be short-lived (ION 765) are beavering away again. On January 27 they called in for questioning three former [.

Ethiopia
US TRAINING THE POLICE

A group of 46 Ethiopian police officers and security operatives are on training courses in the United States. They have [...]

Sudan
LUCRATIVE SPIN-OFF IN CARLOS AFFAIR

The Sudanese government confidently awaits a triple dividend for the services it rendered the French secret service, specifically to general [...]

SURGE IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM FEARED

American terrorism experts, including government counter-terrorist aides, are convinced that a particularly fierce form of fudamentalist Islamic violence will unfurl [...]

NEW LINKS IN INTELLIGENCE CHAIN

The U.S. Departments of Treasury and Energy are emerging as ever-more important players alongside the traditional intelligence services in identifying and tracking down terrorist organizations and their state backers as well as fighting the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological [.

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 [.

NEW CHIEFS AND NEW SERVICES

Following the spate of scandals in Italy, the Interministerial Security Committee, while awaiting confirmation by the government and parliament, last [...]

COUNTERPROLIFERATION INTO ACTION

Ever since the Pentagon announced its counterproliferation initiative (I.N. n. 233) and forced it on NATO as a strategy (I.N. n. 234), observers have been waiting to see how it would be "put into action." Now the cat is out [.

NEW $100 BILLS BY 1996

On 13 July the Clinton administration announced before the House Banking Committee that it has embarked on an accelerated re-design [...]

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 [.

SECRET AGREEMENT IN GENEVA

Sources close to negotiators in Geneva have told Intelligence Newsletter that the summit meeting there between Bill Clinton and Hafez [...]

CALL FOR PRIVATE ANTI-CRIME FORCES

International criminal and counter terrorism experts at the Eight Annual Symposium on Criminal Justice Issues held at the University of [...]

PAUL BUSICK

The U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Paul Busick has been named to head the Office of Intelligence and Security (OIS) [...]

FBI REPORT ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM

The number of terrorist incidents in the United States has declined each year since 1982 except for 1986 according to [...]

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WORLD CRIME: EASTERN EUROPE EXPORT

With the world press applauding the recent success of the vast Green Ice anti-mafia operation, little attention has been given to the grim future for worldwide anti-mafia work that was described during the first week of October at the Office [.

DEFECTIONS AT THE EMBASSIES

Authorities in Khartoum suddenly decided last week to close the military section in several of their embassies, most notably those [...]

HAROLD H. GREENE

U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene in Washington has forbidden the Defense Department to use a security clearance questionnaire that [...]

GENERAL KANAAN'S SECRET MISSION

General Ghazi Kanaan, head of Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon and uncle of President Hafez el-Assad, made a secret trip [...]

STILL IN BUSINESS

According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter from sources close to the American CIA and FBI, Western intelligence services are increasingly concerned over the emergence of old school hard-liners in position of control over the former KGB.

U.S.A.F. INTELLIGENCE REORGANIZATION

Without much fanfare on 1 October 1991, the U.S. Air Force established the Air Force Intelligence Command (AFIC). The AFIC [...]