Relations between Paris and Moscow became very close during Nicolas Sarkozy's term as president (IOL n°626, 632, 636), but now that François Hollande is in office that looks set to change. During his visit to Paris on June 1 Russian [.
The arrest of a State Security official in Hong-Kong comes at a time when members of the service's top brass are jockeying to succeed Geng Huichang.
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Deputy defence minister Assef Sahwkat has not reappeared since his alleged poisoning at the hands of an organisation close to the Syrian Free Army.
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The kidnapping of 11 Lebanese pilgrims on the Syria-Turkey border has mobilised the region's intelligence services, particularly since some hostages may have been agents.
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UN bodies provide different degrees of protection to intelligence operatives according to their official role within the organisation.
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Thanks to the support Damascus' security services have provided since the beginning of the year (IOL 662), the Kurdish separatist [...]
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Lebanon's inter-religious conflicts are not the only ones that are being exported to neighbouring Syria (see p.3). Iraqi militia fighters [...]
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The military implications of the melting polar ice caps are to be explored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, [...]
Mohamed Nassif Kheirbek, President Bashar Al Assad's security advisor and [...]
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Zaheer-ul-Islam, who was appointed head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) [...]
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Nikolai Patrushev, the former director of the FSB, Russia's federal [...]
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Ronald L. Huntley has been appointed the new deputy head [...]
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Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and next in line [...]
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The FBI is looking to recruit internet telephone interception specialists [...]
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U.S. Special Operations Command is currently training members of the [...]
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The affair has surely provided food for thought for Russian [...]
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With the next meeting of the Friends of Syria in [...]
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Chinese mafia organisations are key players in the expanding global [...]
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French journalist Emmanuel Fansten is writing a book about the [...]
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Three companies now dominate the global market in hostage crisis resolution. All three are teamed with insurance groups.
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Israel's military avionics giant Elbit has such a stronghold it has even managed to equip the aircraft of unfriendly nations.
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To facilitate the work of European maritime security companies in the Gulf of Guinea, the Cape Verde islands are planning [...]
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Geneva's corporate intelligence operatives are wondering when they might be hauled before prosecutor Yves Bertossa to be quizzed in connection [...]
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Companies bidding for the contract to protect European Union diplomats in Kabul have until June 6 to submit their expressions [...]
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Jerome Paolini, who previously served as advisor to former French prime minister Francois Fillon, has founded a London-based military consultancy.
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The French-Hungarian company Argus Security Project will hold on to its EU security contract in Libya after all, Intelligence Online can reveal.
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The European embargo against Iranian crude oil and oil products, [...]
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Viet D. Dinh, who was number two at the U.S. [...]
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Following failed negotiations with a view to EADS subsidiary Eurocopter [...]
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The US private equity fund KKR announced on May 14 [...]
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The Guernsey-based Genesis Emerging Markets Fund was fined $112,000 last [...]
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ADIT, the formerly state-owned corporate intelligence firm acquired by Butler [...]
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Alvarez & Marsal, the U.S. consulting firm, is beefing up [...]
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Virginie Sandrock, the new head of European and Insitutional relations [...]
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Charlie Patrick is to succeed Brent McDaniel as head of [...]
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Sterling Corporate Services, the Dubai-based private security company that supervises [...]
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Interfor, the security and private investigation firm headed by Juval [...]
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In Tysons Corner in Virginia, a military intelligence unit processes war zone intelligence and documents obtained by soldiers in realtime.
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Terry McAuliffe, formerly Bill Clinton's campaign fundraiser and a contributor [...]
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Andrew Cahn, the former chief executive of the British business [...]
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Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who became Saudi Arabia's crown prince in [...]
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Researchers have found a way to uncover the encryption key of a microchip by listening to the parasitic emissions it produces.
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