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SpotlightRUSSIA UKRAINE SWITZERLAND 19/12/2018 Naftogaz hunt for compensation may block Gazprom's Nord Stream II pipeline While the US and Russian intelligence services watch on, Naftogaz is trying to torpedo Gazprom's Baltic Sea gas pipeline project. [...]
UNITED STATES 19/12/2018 CIA's new director of operations has friends in Paris Elizabeth Kimber, the new head of the CIA's directorate of operations, is far from an unknown in France. Kimber, who [...]
UNITED STATES 19/12/2018 Joe Maguire, Trump's new counterterrorism chief, has many hats Free Joe Maguire, who has been nominated by President Donald Trump to head the National Counterterrorism Center (CTC), enters the final [...]
IRAQ 19/12/2018 World's intelligence services scramble to find Al Baghdadi The hunt for Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has brought intelligence operatives from all over the world [...]
SAUDI ARABIA GERMANY 19/12/2018 Rheinmetall well-positioned in Riyadh despite Merkel's embargo Rheinmetall's relationships in Riyadh will help the German defence company pursue its talks with the Saudi Arabian military offset firm SAMI, despite the embargo decreed by the German chancellor. [...]
HONGKONG 19/12/2018 Honk Kong: competition grows in HK private investigation market Demand for corporate intelligence services is growing in Hong Kong, but the marketplace, to date dominated by British firms, is also becoming increasingly competitive as new companies seek some of the action. [...]
UNITED STATES 19/12/2018 Intelligence community seeks to protect AI critical code The US intelligence community's research agency is seeking solutions to protect its artificial intelligence tools from malicious attempts to change their core code. [...]
FRANCE 19/12/2018 Florence Parly launches second AI programme France's new defence innovation agency, the AID (Agence de l'Innovation de Defense), French armed forces minister Florence Parly's new baby, [...]
YEMEN 19/12/2018 Ceasefire disagreement over Hodeidah and Saana Airport The fragile ceasefire that the Saudi Arabian-led Arab Coalition and the Houthi rebellion signed on December 13, after a week [...]
RUSSIA 19/12/2018 New GRU chief may reconcile Moscow and Athens General Igor Kostyukov, the new head of Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU (IOL 819), is ideally placed to patch [...]
RUSSIA 19/12/2018 Vladimir Putin's inner circle pals snag plum jobs for their boys With the succession of Vladimir Putin in 2024, after his fourth term of office, in the back of everyone's minds, his inner circle are busy ensuring that their offspring get to run Russia of the future. [...]
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FRANCE 19/12/2018 Eurotradia caught up in Areva affair According to our sources, the French financial prosecution service, the PNF (Parquet National Financier) searched the office of Tim Riedinger, [...]
UNITED STATES 19/12/2018 Former NSA cybersecurity chief Sherry Ramsay heard in Congress Sherry Ramsey, the former head of the NSA's Threat Operations Centre (NTOC), was invited to address the Senate Armed Services [...]
UNITED STATES 19/12/2018 Veretus gets back to business The corporate intelligence firm Veretus Group, which is headed and staffed by a number of former CIA officials, is looking to make a comeback after a series of misfortunes. [...]
FRANCE SAUDI ARABIA 19/12/2018 Riyadh tries to reestablish naval ties with Paris Naval contracts are likely to be on the agenda of French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and President Emmanuel Macron's [...]
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UNITED STATES Peter Thiel has become Trump's principal technology adviser. ©Bloomberg Thiel is Trump's intelligence guru
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CHINA 19/12/2018 Beijing uses European technology to advance New Space know-how With Western firms facing a contracting New Space market, China is beefing up its GEOINT capacity. [...]
UNITED STATES RUSSIA 05/12/2018 Oligarch Oleg Deripaska uses former SVR to rescue RusAl. ©Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin Oleg Deripaska hires team of SVR veterans to save EN+ and RusAl
UNITED KINGDOM 05/12/2018 London and Moscow also face off over Kiev Alex Younger, the head of MI6, gave a rare speech at the University of St Andrews on December 3 in [...]
FRANCE 21/11/2018 D214, Macron's diplomatic secret weapon The Elysee Palace has established a task force made up of diplomats, military and intelligence experts to ponder the most urgent international issues. [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 07/11/2018 Arms sales: first fallout over Khashoggi affair Riyadh is varying its treatment of Western countries based on their reaction to the Khashoggi affair. [...]
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 19/12/2018 Al Qamzi carves role as main supplier to UAE commandos Mohammad bin Khalfan Al Qamzi, the former chief executive of Etisalat who now heads Remah International Group, is fast becoming indispensable to Western companies who want to sell their wares to the UAE's elite units. [...]
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13/12/2018 Darkmatter gets Western experts to develop spy-proof smartphone Senior engineers from former Western mobile giants are the brains behind the UAE's cyber-defence company Darkmatter's stealth phone Katim. [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 05/12/2018 Zagzoug -The Capital Partnership duo close to Salman clan The London-based private equity firm The Capital Partnership has lots of ties with Riyadh. [...]
FRANCE 11/12/2018 Corexalys hires Pierre-Mayeul Badaire away from Suneris Having recently resolved a dispute with his former employer Suneris, Pierre-Mayeul Badaire has joined the R&D department of the Paris cyber-intelligence firm that was founded earlier this year. [...]
FRANCE 05/12/2018 TOXIC detects classified document leaks The DGA has developed a miniature tool that can automatically detect when classified documents are being leaked from computer networks. [...]
FRANCE 27/11/2018 Odo software prototype provides solution to sophisticated cyber-spying French researchers are poised to make code obfuscation technology, which provides protection against sophisticated computer attacks, available to all. [...]
FRANCE Corporate Intelligence 19/12/2018 MBO at CEIS Management at the strategic consulting firm Compagnie Europeenne d'Intelligence Economique [...]
EUROPE Corporate Intelligence 19/12/2018 Result eyes European security contracts The German private security firm Result Group has been awarded [...]
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FRANCE Corporate Intelligence 19/12/2018 Gilistro works with Risk&Co in Egypt Retired colonel Thierry Gilistro, a former defence attache at the [...]
UNITED STATES Corporate Intelligence 19/12/2018 Next generation Asquith joins Raedas Isabel Asquith recently joined the corporate intelligence firm Raedas Consulting [...]