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Spymaster | United States
Randy Nixon roped in to get CIA up to speed on OSINT

Director of the CIA's Open Source Enterprise (OSE) Randy Nixon© @INSAlliance/Twitter

The CIA's new Open Source Enterprise director will be expected to speed up the agency's development in open source intelligence just as the field is causing increasing concern and sparking rivalry in Washington, where it is seen as a "clean" and efficient tool to promote political and other forms of influence.

Subscribers only Operations

Government Intelligence

Kazakhstan
Kazakh financial intelligence ups pace of asset recovery investigations

A year after the January 2022 protests, Kazakhstan's economic and financial intelligence services are under pressure to either conclude or communicate the preliminary findings of their investigations on ill-gotten assets.

Subscribers only Operations

China
Xi Jinping to bring PLA political commissars to heel

In his third term, China's president wants to consolidate his hold over his country's military apparatus. To regain control over the politics of the People's Liberation Army, Xi has chosen to drastically rein in political commissars, who have now been relegated to merely executing the party's will.

Subscribers only Defence

Spy Way of Life | Russia
Victor Pelevin, the novelist on Russian security elites' bedside tables

Russian novelist Victor Pelevin, author of numerous bestsellers published by Eksmo, has remained in the shadows since the late 1990s.© Indigo Publications

Across the world, spies have their own inside jokes and references, which give them a shared sense of belonging. Those can in turn shape the public's image of the intelligence world. In Russia, a writer shrouded in secrecy attracts the adoration - and occasionally the wrath - of the country's intelligence community, which he portrays with his own particular brand of subtle audacity.

Subscribers only Operations

International Dealmaking

Cambodia
Business magnate Rithy Sear acts as informal emissary for Cambodia's PM Hun Sen

Chinese-Khmer entrepreneur Rithy Sear, the CEO of Worldbridge Group who has the ear of Western diplomats, has taken on the task of boosting Cambodia's image and that of its prime minister, just as the country appears to be playing an increasingly pivotal role in South-East Asian rivalries between China and the US.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Corporate Intelligence

Ukraine, United States
Private military contractors thrust into heart of Ukraine conflict information war

Reeling from a dispute raging between its leaders, Russian information campaigns and blows to its reputation, Mozart Group's current predicament illustrates the delicate position in which such private security contractors operating on both sides of the conflict find themselves in.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Surveillance & Interception

Italy
Ex-carabinieri Francesco Dattola builds small empire with NSR

Francesco Dattola, head of NSR, a small cybersecurity and cyberintelligence firm in Italy, is buying up and founding new cyberbusinesses.

Subscribers only Cybersecurity

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