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| Intelligence Online Briefs |
| 2005-04-08 |
| (IO is a subscription service, but they have some tantalizing teasers.) American intelligence has reportedly established fruitful contacts with Rifaat Assad, uncle of the Syrian president, who lives in exile in Marbella... France's business intelligence companies will shortly find themselves under direct government control... The U.S. Treasury Department is intent on becoming a fully-fledged member of the American intelligence community but is finding it hard to get started... Running counter to its policy of out-sourcing operations to the private sector, the Pentagon plans to regain complete control of its telephone communications... The British security group ArmorGroup has hired a former Raytheon executive to open an office in Washington and has hitched up with the Shi'ite Kubba clan in Iraq... Fierce internal rivalry between political leaders in France has begun to weigh on the day-to-day operations of the intelligence agencies... Briefly considered for the job of secretary for Homeland Security, Joe Albaugh, former chief-of-staff to George W. Bush, now finds himself working for Halliburton... In response to the "anti-secession" bill adopted by China's parliament, Taiwan's secret service has asked the U.S. for help in detecting "fish on the seabed..." The United States wants opposition forces in Syria to march under the Moslem Brotherhood banner... |
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