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Issue no. 692 dated 10 july, 2013 Download this issue (PDF, 480 Ko) UNITED STATES Snowden stuck in limbo, for now While the technology he leaked information about is extremely complex, the computer technician turned National Security Agencywhistleblower Edward Snowden now has a very simple choice in front of him. He could either flee to a country that is hostile to the US, and become the defector Washington claims he is, or stay in Russia and take the risk that Putin's administration will hand him over to the U. (...) TERABYTES New software provides smartphone security Companies can now buy software programs that make mobile telephones secure. (...) CORRIDORS OF POWER TUNISIA/SAUDI ARABIA Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali FRANCE Andre Muhlberger FRANCE Iskandar Safa DUE DILIGENCE Ex-ATE chief Pizano carves new agent role One year after selling ATE aviation to South Africa's Paramount, Jean-Marc Pizano is now making good use of his contacts in the aeoronautics industry. (...) GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE GREY AREAS IRAQ Iraqi leadership struggle underway While Jalal Talabani is in Berlin receiving care after a stroke, back in Baghdad potential successors including his arch-enemy Massoud Barzani are circling the presidential palace. (...) EUROPE FRANCE DGSE's virtual vault The DGSE's electronic and electromagnetic interception centre, which is in the spotlight in France due to the Prism affair, is one of the intelligence service's most sensitive facilities. (...) FRANCE Negotiating the terms of new DGSI Intense discussions are underway to decide what relationship the DGSI will have with the justice ministry. (...) FRANCE/SYRIA Limit to anti-chemical plans At the initiative of the general staff, French Special Forces recently tested their fighting capabilities in a warm climate contaminated by gas. (...) UNITED KINGDOM - Malcolm Rifkind, the chairman of Britain's parliamentary Intelligence & Security Committee (...) GERMANY - Gerhard Schindler, the head of the BND, Germany's external intelligence service, met (...) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/FRANCE - Le Drian's French satellite hard-sell.  French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian took Thales chief executive Jean-Bernard (...) EUROPE - Salafistes seek moles in school.  Tunisia's Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes (IBLV), a modern languages school (...) NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES - The CIA uses some NGOs, particularly Save The Children, as a cover overseas, particularly (...) MIDDLE EAST QATAR Emir to keep grip on intelligence The new Emir of Qatar is placing his friends in charge of the emirate's intelligence services. (...) SAUDI ARABIA Purge of military in pipeline Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, the minister of the National Guard, is preparing a thorough shake-up of Saudi Arabia's military top brass. (...) FRANCE/SYRIA Limit to anti-chemical plans At the initiative of the general staff, French Special Forces recently tested their fighting capabilities in a warm climate contaminated by gas. (...) LEBANON Hezbollah pays heavy toll for Syria For the first time since Hezbollah took up arms to fight alongside the Syrian Army, the bereaved families of Shi'ite victims of the conflict travelled from Lebanon's (...) SAUDI ARABIA - Bandar bin Sultan, the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Directorate(GID) has (...) EGYPT - Muhammad Farid, who was appointed the head of General Intelligence on July 6 by Egypt's (...) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES/FRANCE - Le Drian's French satellite hard-sell.  French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian took Thales chief executive Jean-Bernard (...) LEBANON - Retaliation against Hezbollah.  No group or organisation has claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack on the parking (...) SYRIA - Intra-Kurdish conflict flares.  Fighting has intensified in north-eastern Syria since the beginning of June between (...) ASIA CHINA/NORTH KOREA - North Korean nukes strike fear. Debate is raging in the Chinese military over the plausibility of a North Korean nuclear (...) CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE THE RED LINE FRANCE EDF's relations with DGSE and DCRI All of France's multinationals have dealings with the French intelligence services - but they don't often say it in so many words. (...) EUROPE UNITED KINGDOM Kroll loses financial investigators Brian Stapleton and Richard Abbey, the former heads of Kroll London's financial investigation department, have hired away some former colleagues. (...) SWITZERLAND/ITALY Private hunt for Kazakh banker Kazakhstan has turned to private consultants to help catch the fugitive oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov. (...) UNITED KINGDOM/KURDISTAN Kurdish oil king Kozel under pressure A pitched battle is on the cards on July 25 when the oil company Gulf Keystone, which made Kurdistan's largest oil discovery, holds its annual shareholders' meeting in Bermuda. (...) FRANCE/RUSSIA DCNS will deliver first ship French shipbuilder DCNS is scheduled to deliver the first of two 119 metre-long 21,000 tonne BPC projection and command vessels to the Russian Navy on October 19. (...) UNITED KINGDOM - Dean Attew, the former investigator at Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Management has (...) UNITED KINGDOM - Charles Carr, the head of the British office of Jules and Jeremy Kroll's corporate intelligence (...) BELGIUM - Tempelsman continues crusade.  International diamond dealer Maurice Tempelsman, 84, is still keenly pursuing his $500 (...) UNITED KINGDOM - Investigation cell at GML.  GML, the principal shareholder of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's defunct oil company Yukos, (...) SWEDEN - Stenbeck family's investigators.  Kinnevik, Sweden's second-biggest family-controlled investment firm, has opened its (...) NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES Hakluyt on Park Avenue Holdingham, the parent company of British corporate intelligence outfit Hakluyt, is bidding to develop its businesses in the United States. (...) UNITED STATES - Arcanum,Ron Wahid's corporate intelligence firm, has hired Defense Intelligence Agency (...) UNITED STATES - Navigant, the strategic advice and corporate intelligence firm, was accused by the Moreland (...) UNITED STATES - Blacksand Group, the US private security firm owned by Abraham Golan and Eric Haney, (...) UNITED STATES - Altegrity's ill-timed Snowden problem.  Suspicions that USIS may have bungled its background checks on NSA consultant Edward (...) UNITED STATES - An ambassador for Brunswick. The US PR firm Brunswick Group has recently recruited Nigel Sheinwald, the former British (...) MIDDLE EAST UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Al Bu-Ainnain reps French and US groups As well as being Dassault and MBDA's agent in the United Arab Emirates (IOL 606), former Emirati Air Force commander Khaled Al Bu-Ainnain also advises Lockheed (...) UNITED KINGDOM/KURDISTAN Kurdish oil king Kozel under pressure A pitched battle is on the cards on July 25 when the oil company Gulf Keystone, which made Kurdistan's largest oil discovery, holds its annual shareholders' meeting in Bermuda. (...) ASIA SINGAPORE - Holdingham Asia, the Asia department of the corporate intelligence firm Hakluyt is working (...)

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