Faced with American and British groups that have profited from their countries' commitment to Baghdad, French companies are having to fight to avoid being totally cut out of the huge Iraqi market. France's good relations with Arbil hold out prospects [.
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The theft of a laptop computer at RVR, a French publisher of "governance, risk and compliance software" (IOL 573) cast light on the increasing interest in sensitive software of the type.
The appointment of general Benoit Puga, former commander of French special forces, as head of the French military intelligence agency [...]
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In 2001 Tsai Chao-ming became the first Taiwan-born officer to take over as chief of the intelligence and counter-espionage agency, [...]
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Appointed chief of India's foreign intelligence agency, Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) in February 2007, Ashok Chaturverdi finds himself not [...]
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The intelligence coordinator appointed to serve on the French president's staff, Bernard Bajolet, will gradually take up his functions that were spelled out in France's White Paper on defense and security.
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BASIC, a new American spy satellite system, will enable U.S. forces in foreign theatres to gain immediate access to satellite imagery.
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London has put the military wing of Lebanon's Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations. The British move is aimed at curbing the movement's involvement in Iraq and the occupied territories.
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A breeding ground for recruits for Islamic fundamentalist groups, Saudi Arabia's religious police force known as Al Mutawa has been switched to counter-espionage missions. But with mixed results.
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American intelligence chiefs all turned up on July 2 to inaugurate a new National Center for Medical Intelligence.
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On June 27, the Senate confirmed Christopher Wall in the [...]
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The Russian Duma has just written off Tajikistan's debt amounting [...]
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Appointed chairman of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee last November (IOL [...]
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When the private American group Hunt Oil was awarded several [...]
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Washington is insisting on being informed of any sale of French military hardware that includes American components.
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Britain's former minister for armed forces, Adam Ingram has taken up a post with a consultancy that specializes in defense industry exports.
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France's Dassault Aviation is in talks with the United Arab Emirates on selling Rafale to Abu Dhabi. But the UAE wants Dassault to take back its fleet of French Mirage 2000's in return. Which means finding buyers for them.
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Formed last year, the firm Gallice Security has just hired Gilles Marechal, former operations director of the DGSE's Service Action.
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Intelligence Online was rather too quick off the starting blocks [...]
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The federal prosecutor's office in Russia has decided to release [...]
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The British oil company BP and Russian oligarchs Viktor Vekselberg, [...]
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The staff of William Greenwalt, deputy under secretary of defense [...]
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Founded last year by the former chief of the CIA's counter-terrorism department, Total Intelligence Solution has suddenly found itself leaderless
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Founded last year by a former member of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, Steven Fox, after he left Diligence, the [...]
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Columbia's defense ministry indicated last week that a small Israeli company,. Comprehensive Security Transformation (Global CST) offered some precious advice [...]
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Six months after leaving his post as British envoy to Washington, David Manning has stepped into the private sector with [...]
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In response to our article on June 26 that stated, among other things, that Dominique Montecer was leaving the Geos [...]
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After Michael Leiter’ s confirmation by the Senate on June [...]
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While waiting for the day that sanctions against Iran are [...]
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Deputy head of the French military intelligence agency Direction du [...]
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Established last year, the US-UAE Business Council which represents American [...]
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