Foreign Minister Qin Gang's 2023 ousting was an opportunity for Beijing's intelligence services to identify security weaknesses within the Chinese community abroad. Intelligence Online reveals the background and implications of his dismissal.
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France's 2024 budget provides for the justice ministry to pay €2m to the country's external intelligence service, the DGSE. The ministry has to pay for the use of DGSE interceptions tools by the national legal interceptions platform.
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Unofficial Kremlin-mandated sherpas are discreetly accompanying the first batches of North Korean workers to their dormitories and workplaces in Eastern Ukraine where they have been tasked with rebuilding war-devastated areas.
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The Bosnian Serb Republic, with timid independence ambitions, is cultivating its contacts with US conservative legislators in order to gain a foothold in Washington. It has forged a relationship with Congressman Aderholt that is fuelled by political and religious ties.
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Washington is discreetly beefing up Kyiv's anti-aircraft defences using special data fusion technology to improve interceptions, with Ukrainian intelligence also tracking Moscow's information sources to protect the location of sensitive installations.
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