The royal palace is mulling its options given the new US president-elect's repeated criticisms of Saudi Arabia.
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Back-door diplomacy Rumours are circulating again that Hakan Fidan (IOL 837), the [...]
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Andrew Parker, who was the head of the Security Service [...]
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Corporate Intel CIA veteran Greg Vogle has joined US President-elect Joe Biden's [...]
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France's Intelligence Academy, headed by François Chambon, has launched a new analysis training programme for the top six intelligence services, [...]
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Agencies Initially scheduled for delivery in October, the French Armed Forces' new American Reaper Block 5 drones will arrive in Niger [...]
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Defence South Korean National Intelligence Agency (NIS) director Park Jie-won's (IOL 861) visit to Tokyo on 10 November highlighted the ongoing [...]
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Agencies The deployment of a Russian peacekeeping force in Nagorno-Karabakh following the peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan earlier this month [...]
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Operations The death of Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa on 11 November, after nearly half a century in [...]
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Agencies While backing more restrictive European directives on the export of dual-use technologies, including cyber tools, for which a political deal [...]
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Contractors The poor cooperation between Germany's intelligence services was lamented by MPs in the Bundestag on 6 November. Bruno Kahl, the [...]
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Agencies In its report on the Intelligence Authorization Act 2021, published [...]
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Defence Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's special adviser Hikmet Hajiyev claimed last [...]
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Information wars Russian intelligence is profiting from the situation in Sudan to [...]
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Defence In view of the violent clashes since the beginning of [...]
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Agencies Italian consultant and writer Paolo Fusi is sparing no effort against the UAE. In recent months he has published a [...]
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Corporate Intel While continuing to closely follow developments in his native Kyrgyzstan, shaken by political upheavals (IOL 864), oligarch Erkin Bekbolotov, who [...]
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Corporate Intel Arnaud Dessenne, the former president of the private security firm Erys Group, is founding a new firm in the sector, [...]
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Corporate Intel John Felker, the director of the Integrated Operations Division (IOD) of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which [...]
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Corporate Intel Businessman Christopher Chandler is still locked in a courtroom battle in DC with investigator Donald Berlin, of Investigative Consultants Inc [...]
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Corporate Intel Drone maker Jouav, which until now has been active primarily in the commercial sector, presented its CW-25 model to the [...]
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Corporate Intel Magna Consulting, founded by former UN diplomat Ella Tkach-Dreazen, has [...]
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Corporate Intel After working in the Saudi Arabian defence market (IOL 812), [...]
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Corporate Intel The new corporate intelligence firm Ground Truth Intelligence (GTI), which [...]
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Corporate Intel Veteran private investigator Kenneth Sawka is not staying on after [...]
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Corporate Intel The Gulf-focused French diplomacy and corporate intelligence firm Princeps Strategy [...]
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Corporate Intel Partners in the consulting and intelligence firm SC Strategy, Lord [...]
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Corporate Intel Wangyan Technology, an analytics firm backed by US expertise and funding, is making its mark as one of the top GEOINT suppliers to China's financial sector.
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Corporate Intel The US firm is stepping up to address concerns, flagged in reports, about military weapons systems' growing vulnerability.
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Cybersecurity The current vacuum in the White House is extending the Western, Chinese and Russian struggle for influence over Ukrainian assets such as the aircraft engine builder Motor Sich.
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Corporate Intel Chevron has become the first oil major to venture into the changing and politically sensitive Israeli market by acquiring Noble. An armada of seasoned experts are on hand to guide it.
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Corporate Intel Ostensibly there to discuss the refugee issue, future reconstruction contracts in Syria were foremost in the minds of Bashar Al Assad's supporters gathered in Damascus earlier this month.
Pressed to get tougher on pro-Tehran militias, Al Kazemi will have to step up his efforts to keep in Washington's good graces.
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The American smartphone decryption company Grayshift is starting to export outside the US with the help of Australia's Criterion.
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Cybersecurity A growing number of Western countries are deploying cyber-capacity programmes to tackle cyber-threat in partner countries in the developing world. These initiatives also have an influence component.
After quietly pursuing day-to-day business at his corporate advisory firm Crumpton Group in recent years, Henry "Hank" Crumpton has sprung into action in recent months, launching new projects, merging his firm and joining the boards of a number of venture capital firms.
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Corporate Intel As part of the prestigious corporate intelligence firm's expansion and in keeping with its desire for increased visibility, Hakluyt's CEO Varun Chandra has been appointed a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts (RAA) in London.
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Corporate Intel The indictment of Emel Ozturk, the head of Bosphorus Gas, on espionage charges in mid-October has put the spotlight on businessman Ali Sen's network. Based on intelligence from Turkey's MIT, the director general of Gazprom's partner in Turkey and five members of staff are suspected of providing confidential information on Turkey's gas industry to Russia.
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Corporate Intel The fall of Syrian business magnate Rami Makhlouf has opened up a breach in the Syrian telecoms sector he once dominated. EmmaTel is stepping in, under the watchful gaze of powerful first lady Asma Al Assad.
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Corporate Intel Talks between New Delhi and Paris late last month were part of ongoing efforts to forge a three-way alliance with Australia in the Indo-Pacific to counter Beijing's dominance in the region. France has already supplied submarines to the two countries.
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Defence A lobby group against Beijing led by MPs Tom Tugendhat and Neil O'Brien has mobilised the cream of Britain's China specialists.
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