Geos’ financial woes

The debt that Geos assumed in a leveraged buyout by Halisol in 2008 has stalled business at France’s leading private security group.(...) [ 226 words ] [€5]

Parallel probes at ENRC

Two parallel investigations are currently underway at the mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), which is present in the Democratic Republic(...) [ 227 words ] [€5]

Thales bids for missile contract

Thales International Middle East has been negotiating with the Royal Saudi Air Defence for the past two months to obtain a contract to modernise its air defence system.(...) [ 189 words ] [€5]

Firearms authorisation for privateers

Private security companies protecting merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden regularly breach firearms laws. London is looking for a solution.(...) [ 317 words ] [€5]

DGSE in nostalgic mode

More modern governance at DGSE coupled with reforms to the intelligence sector mean that France’s external intelligence agency has started looking back.(...) [ 211 words ] [€5]

Gryphon’s new SEC hire

Tom Willingham’s corporate intelligence firm Gryphon has scored a coup with the recruitment of New York Stock Exchange watchdog inspector-general David Kotz.(...) [ 181 words ] [€5]

NSA’s private contractors

The National Security Agency (NSA) and Cyber Command’s dependence on the firms they contract to work for them has left its mark on Maryland, where they are both based.(...) [ 145 words ] [€5]

CIA v Guantamo lawyers: No score

After a three-year probe by the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice thinks it has worked out how the lawyers of several Guantanamo detainees identified the CIA(...) [ 175 words ] [€5]

CIA and Algiers’ AQIM differences

The Algerian regime’s politico-military response to AQIM is causing concern among the Western powers that have military forces in the Sahel.(...) [ 272 words ] [FREE]

Thales bids for missile contract

Thales International Middle East has been negotiating with the Royal Saudi Air Defence for the past two months to obtain a contract to modernise its air defence system.(...) [ 189 words ] [€5]

Commandos trained in Canberra

According to information obtained by Intelligence Online in Beirut, an Australian military delegation visited Lebanon in the second week of January and signed an(...) [ 122 words ] [€5]

MIT chief Fidan’s powers grow

Turkey’s military interception service now reports to the Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT), the country’s civil intelligence agency.(...) [ 186 words ] [€5]

Kim Jong-un sparks divide in Beijing

China’s intelligence services and the country’s foreign ministry have their differences over the new Kim.(...) [ 317 words ] [€5]

(ES)² protects H2O

A consultancy owned by Suez Environnement’s former security chief advises utilities companies on natural disaster and terrorism risk management.(...) [ 186 words ] [€5]

All roads lead to Alp

Cited in the Areva/UraMin affair, Alp Services is one of Europe’s most established corporate intelligence firms.(...) [ 194 words ] [€5]

Monitoring rail thieves

Reseau Ferre de France (RFF), which owns some 30,000kms of rail track in France, is mobilising to protect its infrastructure.(...) [ 198 words ] [€5]

Kristoffersen upped at Total

Economist Helle Kristoffersen was appointed Deputy Vice-President, Strategy and Business Intelligence, in charge of the strategic and corporate intelligence departments,(...) [ 167 words ] [€5]

Vigneron drops Thales’ agents

Thales CEO Luc Vigneron has not only stopped the group using agents on export contracts, he is refusing to honour existing deals.(...) [ 321 words ] [€5]

Gorbachev rattles the siloviki

When he recently advised Vladimir Putin “not to bid for a third mandate as president of the Russian Federation”, Mikhail Gorbachev was also aiming his words at(...) [ 212 words ] [€5]

COSSI new home for cyber-defence

Protection from cyber attacks against the state has become a top priority in France. Despite austerity measures in other areas, the government is sparing no cost.(...) [ 189 words ] [€5]

Alliance against Anonymous

Faced with the threat of computer attacks by the hackers’ group Anonymous following its adoption of a new constitution removing essential “checks and balances” at the beginning of the year, Viktor Orban’s Hungary has turned to Europe.(...) [ 114 words ] [FREE]

Fedcaps, cyberwarfare takes two

Founded two years ago (IOL 612), the private equity fund FedCap Partners, headed by Rick Knop and Leslee Belluchie, closed the acquisition of a sixth federal government(...) [ 158 words ] [€5]

Baathists’ last stand

The sectarian violence that erupted when the last U.S. soldiers left Iraq at the end of 2011 was perpetrated by a nebulous collection of groups loyal to Izzat Ibrahim(...) [ 173 words ] [€5]

Brotherhood’s intelligence plans

Anticipating a big win in the general election, the Muslim Brotherhood wants an overhaul of the security services that were hostile to it.(...) [ 178 words ] [€5]

Kim Jong-un’s eminence grise

Kim Yong-chol is one of a handful of key generals helping Kim Jong-un to establish himself as North Korea’s new leader.(...) [ 335 words ] [€5]