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Spymaster | Switzerland
Intelligence chief Dussey grapples with shaken Swiss neutrality

Head of Swiss Federal Intelligence Service Christian Dussey.© Stefan Wermuth/AFP

As head of the Federal Intelligence Service, Christian Dussey knows how to draw on his small service's strengths to meet the needs of Switzerland's Federal Council. Now he faces a changing European political landscape and a hunt for Russian assets that threaten to destabilise his country's historical neutrality.

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Government Intelligence

Russia
Russian financial intelligence service looks to recruit new generation of analysts

As it is gradually pushed out of international financial surveillance organisations, Russia's financial intelligence service Rosfinmonitoring is counting on its connections with local and Central Asian universities to provide new recruits and keep up its foreign partnerships.

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Germany, Poland, United States
Polish diplomatic think-tank carves niche in Washington

The PISM, close to the Warsaw government, is developing its influence across the Atlantic. Its main targets are security decision-makers and Republican circles in Washington, but it also has Canada in its sights.

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International Dealmaking

Saudi Arabia
The Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, a gilded prison turned hotspot for business elites thriving under MbS

The lobby of the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh.© Intelligence Online

All over the world, spies have their favourite hangouts for hush-hush conversation and impromptu reunions. This week, Intelligence Online explores the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh. Turned into a gilded prison in 2017 by Mohammed bin Salman during his anti-corruption purge, the opulent establishment is fast becoming a favourite haunt of heads of state and business tsars.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Corporate Intelligence

Europe
B&S Europe, the provider helping the EU gain influence in Eastern Europe

Business and Strategies in Europe has been contracted by Brussels to help Moldova and the Balkan states with their West-leaning policies, placing it in a strategic position as Russia tries to exert its own influence in these countries.

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Surveillance & Interception

UAE
CPX struggles to spearhead UAE's cyberoffensive operations

Supposed to be the UAE's new cyberintelligence flagship, CPX is struggling to make its mark and hold on to contracts because of technological gaps at a time when other parapublic cyber firms are gaining ground.

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