Intelligence Online was able to sneak into the top secret France-Ukraine armament committee that regularly discusses arms deliveries to Ukraine. Its latest meeting highlights the widening gap between the two parties.
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Corporate Intel The Kurdistan Regional Government is planning to open a representative office in the UAE as part of an effort to boost economic ties beyond the oil industry.
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Corporate Intel With Beijing now back in favour with French diplomats and spies, Paris has taken particular care over the appointment of its new consul in Wuhan, birthplace of Covid-19 and site of the P4 high-security laboratory backed by France.
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Back-door diplomacy Behind the scenes, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's administration is still talking to US and British law firms about plans to recover assets connected to people in ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev's circles. Their progress is hinged on the outcome of the upcoming political events.
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Corporate Intel The consultancy founded by several ex-CIA officers wants to help intelligence agencies solve a challenge: how to tap into commercially sourced data. Already being seen in satellite imagery, this practice is now turning to the collection of Internet user browsing datasets.
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Contractors Faced with the withdrawal of France's Technip and Italy's Saipem from its liquefied natural gas project in Siberia, Arctic LNG 2, Russian gas giant Novatek is going through an unknown company in Abu Dhabi. Its aim is to keep procuring the technologies it lacks, but below the radar.
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Corporate Intel Xi Jinping is rallying his diplomats in Europe with a view to re-entering the diplomatic discussions on the war in Ukraine after the CCP congress scheduled for 16 October.
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Back-door diplomacy A recent senate report claims US counterintelligence is not up to dealing with China and other threats. The main counterintelligence agency has been without a permanent chief for the past year.
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