CI in Eastern Europe

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Comment by DJ on October 31, 2009 at 2:29pm

I just joined this group and wanted to say hello . I have done in the last several years many CI projects involving Russia. I for the most part track ownership of corporations and arms deals with the States. Just wanted to touch base with ya'lls group.

Comment by Cristian Rotaru on May 14, 2009 at 5:57am

Hy everyone! It feels great to be among the professionals of the CI guild...

Comment by Georgian Dinca on May 13, 2009 at 4:33am

Now it's a mosaic of colours and countries :). I appreciet your effort, Mislav! Greate map representation.

Comment by Mislav Jurisic on May 13, 2009 at 4:09am

Sorry guys, I have some issues with colours :)))))I just realised it now:))
will change it immediately

Comment by Rainer Michaeli on May 13, 2009 at 4:02am

Dear Mislav,
please, let's reunite Germany in your map. It looks somewhat odd to me! But your initiate is very much appreciated!!!
Rainer

Comment by Georgian Dinca on May 13, 2009 at 3:54am

Mislav, I will try to give you all information you need to update your presentation regarding information from Romania and Bulgaria too.

Comment by Mislav Jurisic on May 13, 2009 at 3:46am

http://units.sla.org/division/dci/Conf_Presentations/2007/Jurisic.ppt

Comment by Mislav Jurisic on May 13, 2009 at 3:45am

Hi Tad,
I understand your concern, I'm not trying to revive Eastern block or anything like that:). We can change the photo or refocus on smaller number of countries.
I'm aware things are very different between countries shown on the picture.
But again, we all have issues in demonstrating what CI is, in defining it, in getting people involved in it into forming local communities including both corporate practitioners, academics and ex-intelligence community involved, in negative PR as to be associated with espionage as well as in historical influence of different intelligence agencies on perception of intelligence, in lots of secrecy around it, in trying to find good cases of local implementation of CI in companies, in mixing it with market research, etc. Also lots of multinationals working in the region cover whole or big part of this region with a headquarter in one of the countries.
That was were I was coming from. Few yrs ago I did some "research" on the topic of CI in Eastern Europe, at that time the purpose was to give a "picture" of CI and its potential to SCIP.
While there are probably lots of open issues and I might have missed some here is presentation I did at that time with great help of some of the colleagues I met at SCIP conferences from some of the countries mentioned (they are all mentioned in the presentation).

By the way it was presented at so many time these days mentioned SLA conference (2007 Denver).
Cheers and thnks for the comment
p.s. we shoould have made a discussion topic of this :)

Comment by Tadeusz Lemańczyk on May 12, 2009 at 11:25pm

Hello, Mislav, with that picture ( http://api.ning.com/files/jVNCuSObZsfLqSrVzz4udk9oN-h8iueKg253rGo5N2JgtkCPsWKdSqS6d1rYO0SCBnbKSXY4X7a7ddz2Aij7ylnqbYlF2ngT/EasternEuropeextendedmap.png?crop=1%3A1&width=171 ) you try to cap Rip van Winkle (who slept only for 20 years and found the world very changed when he woke up), don't you? ;-)

Best wishes,
Tad