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SPOTLIGHT FRANCE 23/08/2017

SFO, PNF Airbus probes: Former French PM comes to the rescue

Law firms and consulting firms have plenty to keep them occupied with the many anti-corruption investigations into the European aeronautical and defence group's business dealings. [...]

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Special report FRANCE INDIA 16/08/2017

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Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India

Government Intelligence ARAB WORLD Document 23/08/2017

Anti-Qatar quartet report builds case against Doha

Intelligence Online has obtained a document that the Arab quartet opposed to Qatar is planning to show to Western allies to stand up their allegations against the emirate. [...]

International Dealmaking EUROPE NIGERIA UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Former star defence broker suffers setback in Europe

Nigerian businessman Aboubakar Hima received defence contracts totaling nearly $1 billion in the space of a year when Goodluck Jonathan was in office but those days are over as the Nigerian government pursues him for corruption. [...]

Due Diligence UNITED KINGDOM UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 23/08/2017

Brightstone Middle East paves way for British defence industry

With the support of a member of one of the UAE's ruling families, Brightstone Middle East is looking to carve a niche for itself in negotiations between the UAE and British defence companies. [...]

Corporate Intelligence UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Marks, link between Trump and Kiev's pro-Kremlin oligarchs

Former Pennsylvania Republican Senator Bruce Marks, the head of the law firm Marks & Solokov, is oligarch Sergey Kurchanko's voice [...]

Government Intelligence UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Next USDI may face turf war with policy counterpart

The Trump administration's nominee for the position of undersecretary of defense for intelligence (USDI), retired Vice Admiral Joseph Kernan, will [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Blackwood launches consulting firm

EGYPT 23/08/2017

Sisi creates own DNI

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Cazeneuve and holder's New bromance

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SAUDI ARABIA 23/08/2017

Al Howairini, Mohammed bin Salman's ears at interior ministry

By his appointment as director of all of the interior ministry's intelligence services, General Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Al Howairini has [...]

ISRAEL 23/08/2017

Mossad fears its Syria policy is failing

This week, Israel's PM Benyamin Netanyahou made a hasty visit to Sochi with Yossi Cohen, the head of Mossad, to [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 23/08/2017

MbS gets Sadr's help to deradicalise Eastern province

During his meeting with influential Iraqi Shi'ite leader Moqtada Al Sadr on July 30, Saudi Arabia's defence minister and crown [...]

INDIA CHINA 23/08/2017

Moscow asked to mediate between Beijing and New Delhi

According to Intelligence Online's sources, high-ranking Indian foreign ministry officials visited Russia this week. New Delhi is hoping to convince [...]

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TURKEY 23/08/2017

Altayli's arrest may mark turning point in anti-Gulen purge

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 23/08/2017

Baathist officers hired to train Yemeni militia fighters

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Kervran holds secret operations purse strings

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UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Generals make beeline for private sector

The summer months are a busy time of the year for people leaving the Ministry of Defence for fresh fields. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

GPW carries out internal shakeup after difficult year

GPW has taken advantage of the quiet summer period to overhaul its management. According to our sources, the first major [...]

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UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Former defence procurement chief heads for Dubai

UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Ex DIA clandestine service officer joins private sector

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Leah Grant joins Marsh & McLennan

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Amarante scores double victory over Garda in Africa

French private security company Amarante International has recently landed the two biggest contracts with the European Union's European External Action [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Lord Guthrie comes aboard at Arcanum

Arcanum Global Intelligence, the corporate intelligence firm headed by Ron Wahid, appointed Field Marshal Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, [...]

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International Dealmaking

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EUROPE AZERBAIJAN 23/08/2017

European shipyards battle it out for Caspian contract

Although theoretically, arms sales to Azerbaijan are subject to an embargo by the OSCE, two European groups are competing to sell ships to the country's navy. [...]

FRANCE 19/07/2017

DGSE keen to catch up on tactical interception capabilities

The French external intelligence service has decided to focus on national interception solutions developed by its usual partners, rather than acquiring foreign technology. [...]

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BULGARIA 19/07/2017

LASA Engineering revives Erik Prince's militarized agricultural aircraft

LASA Engineering, which was founded by Erik Prince but is now owned by a Bulgarian aviation firm, is touting itself as an ITAR-free alternative to the companies that convert agricultural planes for anti-guerrilla deployment. [...]

UNITED STATES INDIA 05/07/2017

Thales former India partner beefs up board before Nasdaq listing

Rajiv Shukla, the former CEO of the Indian defence company Pipavav, has hired Alan Rosling, a former advisor to John Major, to help Constellation become the go-to investment company for Western investors in India. [...]

TURKEY EUROPE 21/06/2017

Airbus agent Necdet Ersoy ready to counter-attack

Necdet Ersoy, who was Airbus Group's agent in Turkey for many years, is threatening to take the company to court after his contract was abruptly axed by the export department. [...]

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ISRAEL 23/08/2017

NSO chiefs' Founders Group invests in cybersecurity firms

The founders of NSO, the Israeli spyware leader, are also angel investors in startup computer security firms. [...]

ITALY 19/07/2017

BTS Tracker shakes up mobile forensic investigation

An Italian GSM device can precisely track the movements of a mobile telephone based on its log of previous calls, without the help of mobile operators. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 05/07/2017

Mini-drones to detect satellite telephones

Horizon Technologies has built a smaller version of its Thuraya and Inmarsat telephone geolocation system that can be deployed on tactical drones. [...]

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Spotlight FRANCE 23/08/2017

SFO, PNF Airbus probes: Former French PM comes to the rescue

Law firms and consulting firms have plenty to keep them occupied with the many anti-corruption investigations into the European aeronautical and defence group's business dealings. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Blackwood launches consulting firm

Nicola Blackwood, the former minister for health and innovation under [...]

EGYPT 23/08/2017

Sisi creates own DNI

By launching his own National Security Organisation, or Hayat Al [...]

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Cazeneuve and holder's New bromance

The former French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who recently returned [...]

CHINA 23/08/2017

Gonganbu's "Panda" foreign service gains ground Free

Growing Chinese moves to get suspected Islamist Uighurs extradited from Egypt and Turkey have shed might on the 1st Bureau [...]

TURKEY 23/08/2017

Altayli's arrest may mark turning point in anti-Gulen purge

The arrest of Enver Altayli, an ex-officer of the Milli [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 23/08/2017

Baathist officers hired to train Yemeni militia fighters

According to our sources, Abu Dhabi has recruited several dozen [...]

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Kervran holds secret operations purse strings

Loic Kervran, the young La Republique En Marche MP, was [...]

JAPAN 23/08/2017

Tokyo Games : Yakuza and police play cat and mouse

The fight against organised crime is intensifying in Japan in [...]

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Collomb merges UCLAT and EMOPT, counterintelligence units

Gerard Collomb, France's new interior minister, told members of the [...]

IRAN 23/08/2017

Tehran helps IEDs to proliferate in Middle East

According to an Israeli expert consulted by Intelligence Online in [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Former defence procurement chief heads for Dubai

Susanna Mason, who was the managing and sales director of [...]

UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Ex DIA clandestine service officer joins private sector

Jim Hamby, the first deputy director of the Defense Clandestine [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/08/2017

Leah Grant joins Marsh & McLennan

After a year as director of the London office of [...]

UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Mark Cowan, former CIA official, guides Sinopec in Washington

Mark Cowan, the former CIA's Assistant Legislative Counsel turned lobbyist, [...]

UNITED STATES 23/08/2017

Global Risk Advisors focus on insider threats

Kevin Chalker, the head of the New York-based Global Risk [...]

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Security firm skirmish : Tardy placed under formal investigation

Jean-Francois Tardy, the former second in command of the GIGN [...]

FRANCE 23/08/2017

Vigi-Lance, new Breton corporate intelligence firm

Loic Louer, a discreet former French Army officer, recently opened [...]

ARAB WORLD Document 23/08/2017

Anti-Qatar quartet report builds case against Doha

Intelligence Online has obtained a document that the Arab quartet opposed to Qatar is planning to show to Western allies to stand up their allegations against the emirate. [...]

UNITED STATES IRAQ 23/08/2017

US and Iraqi forces struggle to share intelligence while Islamic State proliferation threat looms

At a time when Washington is concerned that Islamic State may export its drone know-how, cooperation between the coalition fighting IS and the Iraqi forces is fraught. [...]