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    Spotlight | United Kingdom
    Inside Orbis, part 1: former MI6 employee's intelligence firm probed Tory donors as well as Trump

    Christopher Steele, former Russia desk head at the British Secret Intelligence Service and co-founder of Orbis Business Intelligence.
    Christopher Steele, former Russia desk head at the British Secret Intelligence Service and co-founder of Orbis Business Intelligence. © Aaron Chown/Press Association Images/MaxPPP

    Following the now infamous ‘Steele dossier' concerning Donald Trump, in 2021 and 2022 Orbis Business Intelligence probed the alleged Moscow links of donors to Britain's Conservative Party. Intelligence Online looks at the figures named in its reporting.

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    North Korea, Russia
    Not just soldiers, thousands of North Koreans working undercover in Russia

    Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov and North Korean President Kim Jong-un during a visit to the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia, on 17 September 2023.
    Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov and North Korean President Kim Jong-un during a visit to the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia, on 17 September 2023. © EPA-EFE/Government of Primorsky Krai/MaxPPP

    The Kremlin is finding inventive ways to circumvent UN sanctions banning the employment of North Korean labour. Intelligence Online has uncovered a tried-and-tested student visa system that enables thousands of Pyongyang inhabitants to be put to work in construction.

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    Israel, Lebanon
    War in Lebanon: France keeping an eye on Israel's naval intelligence armada

    A Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine in Toulon, in November 2005. Paris has been mobilising a submarine of this type off the coast of Lebanon in recent days.
    A Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine in Toulon, in November 2005. Paris has been mobilising a submarine of this type off the coast of Lebanon in recent days. © Florian Launette/PhotoPQR/La Provence/MaxPPP

    France is discreetly monitoring the IDF's deployment of underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) drones off southern Lebanon. Israel is mobilising its deep-sea ghost fleet to counter retaliatory strikes against its offshore gas fields, keep an eye on Hezbollah's naval assets and identify coastal targets.

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    France
    Intelligence watchdog and services spar over control of sovereignty files

    The president of the intelligence gathering techniques watchdog, the CNCTR, Serge Lasvignes (left), and the National Intelligence Coordinator, Pascal Mailhos.
    The president of the intelligence gathering techniques watchdog, the CNCTR, Serge Lasvignes (left), and the National Intelligence Coordinator, Pascal Mailhos. © Christian Hartmann/Reuters//Ludovic Marin/EPA/MaxPPP

    The French intelligence services want to have control over the sovereignty files, while putting the intelligence gathering techniques watchdog, the CNCTR, which carries out more exhaustive checks, at a distance. The heads of each body recently clashed publicly on these points.

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