A Franco-Israeli lawyer's bid to obtain security clearance to consult top secret documents has met with firm resistance from the French defence and national security secretariat, the SGDSN.
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Agencies Rising British open source intelligence solutions firm X Cyber has recently taken on two heavyweight advisers in Darktrace's Steve Huxter and Andrew France, the former deputy director of GCHQ.
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Cybersecurity Following the row over the decision of the current head of Italian intelligence services, Elisabetta Belloni, to run for president, prime minister Mario Draghi has signed a new decree limiting former intelligence chiefs' rights to take up posts in the private sector.
As the doors to the separatist regions of Donbas begin to open up to European journalists eight years after the start of the conflict, 900km to the north, the former adviser to the Russian ambassador in Paris, is helping the French press corps navigate the mood in Moscow.
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Agencies Japan and Saudi Arabia have many common interests but few channels for discreet communication with each other. Tokyo-based Essam al-Bukhary, who is close to Prince Mohammed bin Salman, looks to be ideally placed to serve as an intermediary between the two countries' business communities.
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Corporate Intel Kazakh businessman Aidan Karibzhanov has a strong presence across Central Asia and in Europe, and is linked to France through his role as head of the French-Kazakh MEDEF committee. However, it is the accusations of his wife, with whom he is engaged in a divorce court battle, that have recently been making noise in the UK, the rumbles even echoing in the British Parliament.
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