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Spotlight | Israel, Ukraine
Mossad-Kyiv collaboration gives Moscow the willies

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 19 September 2023. © Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters

Exchanges of strategic intelligence, transfers of anti-drone technology: Ukrainian and Israeli services have started talking to each other in a rapprochement their allies had long hoped for. Each side has assets the other can use against their respective long-standing enemies, Russia and Iran.

Subscribers only Defence

Government Intelligence

China, North Korea
Guoanbu's shadow lurks behind Kim Jong Un's harder line

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting artillery firing ranges (undated picture released from Korean Central News Agency, on 6 October 2024). © STR/KCNA via KNS/AFP

The Chinese Ministry of State Security is taking advantage of turbulent international waters and North Korea's dire finances to reach out to Kim Jong-un. The helping hand, however, comes with a set of requests.

Subscribers only Back-door diplomacy

France
Domestic intelligence boss Berthon turns down France's top police job

Céline Berthon, head of the French domestic intelligence service (DGSI). © Stéphanie de Sakutin/AFP

Céline Berthon, the head of France's DGSI domestic intelligence, was considered as a possible candidate to take the helm of the DGPN police service, which has been vacant for almost a month. But she declined, and another person is now favourite for the job.

Subscribers only Defence

The Agencies' Gazette
Fiscal intelligence unit to start 2025, CICIR welcome in Berlin, Dating app for French officers, NZ archives and Chinese interference

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceFiscal intelligence unit to get cracking in 2025

Germany/ChinaChinese intelligence think tank banned in Paris still welcome in Berlin

FranceNew dating app for French officers, a honeypot den?

New ZealandNZSIS releases archives in face of Chinese espionage and interference

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International Dealmaking

Argentina, Saudi Arabia
Buenos Aires delegation on the lookout for lucrative Saudi investments

Having adopted legislation in July to provide favourable conditions for large foreign investments, Buenos Aires is now on the lookout for major investors and has Saudi Arabia in its sights.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Corporate Intelligence

Iraq, United States
Iraq selects teams of ex-US Treasury Department officials to reform bank, following US pressure campaign

Rafidain bank sign. © Steve Whyte/Alamy Stock Photo

Chip Poncy and his ex-government colleagues in K2 Integrity's Washington office have been meeting Iraqi officials to discuss changes to the financial sector. Now they have been tasked with cleaning up Rafidain Bank, which has been at the centre of major corruption inquiries over the last year.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Surveillance & Interception

China, Iran, Russia
Beijing sets the pace in space intelligence at BRICS

Technicians working on the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03 satellites pose for a photo at a Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. workshop in northeast China's Jilin Province, on 3 August 2022. © Xu Chang/Xinhua via AFP

On the eve of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, an analysis of cooperation in space and Earth observation suggests that the interests of the various countries of the bloc are still awkward to reconcile.

Subscribers only Space

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