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Encouraged by the exceptional mobilisation of troops by the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Kazakhstan, the Tajik president has made a point of calling attention to the threat posed by the Afghan Talibans to the south. He hopes to make foreign policy gains in this way and to get his security services more closely involved with regional bodies. [...]
Ukrainian interceptions specialist Altair-775, which is to supply its new secure information system to Ukraine's SBU internal intelligence service, is also a leading distributor for Western companies including France's Thales group. The company is also a long-standing partner of Swiss firm Crypto AG, which is close to the CIA and other Western intelligence services. [...]
Entwined with its goal to lock in control of Caucasus republic Dagestan, starting with local oligarchs who have since been ousted from the power sectors, is #Russia's wish to create openings towards Iran for its national energy groups Gazprom and Rosseti https://t.co/VEXtwv5ljW
A few days before resigning as the head of Israel’s cyber agency, Igal Unna was in #Italy to beef up bilateral relations. TAG Company has represented Israeli cybersecurity firms there for several years https://t.co/rt6wPPrwts
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence believed it could bring the country's Talibans back into line by organising a truce, but with the truce now broken, spy chiefs are concentrating on securing #Pakistan's border with #Afghanistan https://t.co/zu2sBQ9ggL