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Issue no. 642 dated 02 june, 2011 Download this issue (PDF, 480 KB)
TERABYTES
Models in 3D for all budgets
Costly 3D modelling is no longer the sole preserve of the military, thanks to a new software program from Pix4D. (...) [ 290 words] 4€
GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE
UNITED STATES/RUSSIA/KYRGYZSTAN
Moscow and Washington place pawns
The Bishkek authorities have authorised the opening of U.S. and Russian military training centres in Batken and at the Kyzyl-Kiya base in the south of Kyrgyzstan (IOL 614 ). (...) [ 188 words ] €4
FRANCE
Police and agencies rue data privacy
French police and intelligence agencies are unhappy about security files being overseen by the country’s data privacy watchdog. (...) [ 314 words ] €4
FRANCE
Origins of DGSE’s Service Mission
Jean-Christophe Notin’s new book “France’s Shadow War in Afghanistan” traces the history of one of the least-known services of the DGSE. (...) [ 195 words ] €4
LEBANON/FRANCE - Grandmaison, Raffarin’s shadowA few days before the former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin visited Beirut (...) [ 161 words ] €1,3
FRANCE/JAPAN - The president’s geishaThe Centre Exterieur du Renseignement Francais, a fictitious equivalent of the DGSE, (...) [ 83 words ] €1,3
RUSSIA/NORTH KOREA - Mikhail Fradkov, the director of Russia’s external intelligence service Sluzhba Vneshney (...) [ 89 words ] €1,3
FRANCE - The DGSE agreed to help Northern Alliance Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to physically (...) [ 69 words ] €1,3
SERBIA - Sasa Vukadinovic, the head of the Serbian intelligence service Bezbedosno Informativna (...) [ 99 words ] €1,3
CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE
THE RED LINE
UNITED STATES/FRANCE
Strauss Kahn’s private detectives get to work
Dominique Strauss Kahn’s lawyers have turned to two private investigation outfits to beef up their defence of the IMF chief in answer to prosecutor Cyrus Vance Jr’s sexual assault charges. (...) [ 355 words ] €4
FRANCE
The IN crowd
Crisis Consulting, Groupe Synergie Globale and AENEAS, three French security companies with complementary activites, have teamed to form the IN network. (...) [ 188 words ] €4
UNITED KINGDOM
Guidepost in the City
Bart Schwartz’s corporate intelligence firm Guidepost Solutions, hired by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn to build his defence against attempted rape charges, is poised to open a bureau in London. (...) [ 173 words ] €4
UNITED KINGDOM/SOMALIA
Ransom business under threat
The kidnapping in Mogadiscio on May 24 of six consultants who were there to hand over a $3.6 million ransom has caused a considerable stir in the small world of maritime security (IOL 603 , 624 ). (...) [ 244 words ] [FREE]
FRANCE/AFRICA
Sofrasep contracts up for grabs
The liquidation of Marc Julien’s Societe Francaise de Service Protection (Sofrasep), which provides the security for Air France’s flights to Africa is attracting interest. (...) [ 140 words ] €4
UNITED KINGDOM
Rio Tinto hires Martin
Rio Tinto, the world’s fourth largest mining company with annual revenues of $60 billion, has hired Charlie Martin as head of security in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA). (...) [ 220 words ] €4
UNITED KINGDOM
Kroll’s slice of $200 million Ikos divorce
The corporate intelligence firm is involved in the high-stakes split between City hedge funders Elena Ambosiadou and Martin Coward. (...) [ 324 words ] €4
FRANCE - CEIS, the strategic intelligence company headed by Olivier Darrason, is launching a cycle (...) [ 104 words ] €1,3
BELGIUM/AFRICA - Jean-Michel Lavoizard, who had been working for the British corporate intelligence firm (...) [ 85 words ] €1,3
FRANCE/IRAQ - Anticip, the private security company headed by Richard Terzan, protected a delegation (...) [ 82 words ] €1,3
FRANCE - Why Vitruve filed for bankruptcyA debt of €130,000 to the Alsace-based company Flying Robots was the final straw that (...) [ 115 words ] €1,3
FRANCE - Embassy security could be privatisedAt a time when the French parliament’s defence commission is carrying out an inquiry (...) [ 67 words ] €1,3
UNITED KINGDOM - Geoff Hoon,Tony Blair’s Secretary of State for Defence from 1999 to 2005, joined the (...) [ 58 words ] €1,3
FRANCE/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, met French President Nicolas (...) [ 92 words ] €1,3