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United States
Novetta, State Department's favourite contractor for its psyops against Iran

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) used cyber-intelligence firm Novetta's employees to fill sensitive positions related to influence operations. This choice has been criticised by auditors of the State Department's Inspector General's office.

Israel
Tel Aviv tiptoes into regional energy deal

In search of additional gas flows to meet its contracted share of energy supplies to Beirut through the Arab Gas Pipeline, Cairo turned to Tel Aviv, which was quick to open its valves, on the understanding its role would be kept quiet.

The Agencies' Gazette
Pentagon and Ukrainian titanium, Mukhabarat, PUK

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake. Every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets great and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Nur-Sultan.

United States Pentagon preps to join titanium war

Egypt The Mukhabarat al-Amma gets authority to extend its business interests

Iraq Bafel Talabani sacks his intelligence chief by way of conciliation

Belarus, France
Alisia, the French operation that neutralised Lukashenko

At the centre of everyone's attention, Minsk was the subject of an intelligence operation led by Paris that helped dissuade Alexander Lukashenko from sending his troops to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Moscow is considering its next move, while its CIS allies are keeping a low profile.

Turkey
Turkey highlights safe satellite communication capacity to promote drone exports

Ankara has taken a step towards an independent and exporting defence industry with the deployment of a new secure military satellite communications system. This comes after criticism of its drones being highly vulnerable to detection.

Russia
Alexander Zorin, the Russian security super envoy in Syria and Ukraine

The Ukraine conflict has brought back to the fore the negotiation skills of Alexander Zorin, now a general, who had first demonstrated these during Russia's intervention in Syria and then on the Libyan crisis.

France, Russia, Ukraine
How Paris prepared its intelligence services for the Russian offensive in Ukraine

France was quick to set aside its reservations about the likelihood of an imminent Russian invasion and put its intelligence services and military units on standby a few hours before it started. The main focus was then to make up for its human resource gaps.