Spymaster | Vietnam
Vietnam spymaster Hung banks on military intelligence tech to counter public security rivals

France, Vietnam
French companies hone their space intelligence business strategy in Hanoi

French firms now appear to have a well-oiled plan for selling their spy satellites to Hanoi, despite complex procurement conditions brought on by local anti-corruption investigations and the Vietnamese government's approach that is not in line with Paris.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE training camp revamp, Wagner hires for Africa, Xi's talk with Macron at G20, New military intelligence chief in Hanoi, Viginum awaits its hour against Baku

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

FranceDGSE to bring parachutist training centre up to scratch

RussiaWagner's Africa Corps is hiring

China/FranceXi and Macron to discuss Ukraine at G20 summit in Rio

VietnamPham Ngoc Hung closes 10-year chapter as military intelligence chief

FranceViginum awaits its hour against Baku

The Agencies' Gazette
London hikes spy budget, Ablyazov case in Senate, Vietnamese spy olympics, CNAM chair open, Guoanbu recommendations for BRICS

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

United KingdomGovernment winds intelligence budget back up

France/KazakhstanSenator Nathalie Goulet reopens oligarch Ablyazov affair

VietnamMilitary intelligence prepares in-house olympic games

FranceRace for criminology chair officially open

China/BRICSGuoanbu favours 12 countries with "partnership" status

The Agencies' Gazette
NSC's new China expert, GIGN's China Club chats, DHS-FBI relations issues, Vietnamese military intel changes loom

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

United States NSC picks ex-FT Beijing researcher as director for China

France GIGN boss to dine with Chinese Business Club

United States DHS slammed for cooperating with FBI

Vietnam Military intelligence management heading for change

Laos, United States
Spying accusations in US Hmong community revive memories of CIA's secret war in Laos

A complaint currently under consideration at a Californian court has brought dissensions in the Hmong community in the United States back into the public eye. The case has forced the judges to look again at the secret war waged by the CIA in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s.

Vietnam
Chinese internet control specialist Beyondsoft opens Ho Chi Minh City office

A Chinese actor is moving into Vietnam at a time of a strict application of the country's cybersecurity law.

France, Vietnam
Leadership change leaves France hanging over bilateral presidential visits

Paris is concerned about the political transition taking place in Vietnam, with top-level bilateral meetings planned for the end of 2024 and start of 2025.

Vietnam
Vietnam friendship associations seek to bolster influence abroad

Hanoi intends to take advantage of its friendship networks abroad to improve its economic prospecting capabilities.

Israel, Vietnam
Rafael's Spyder proposal nixed by Vietnamese Air Force amid military procurement shifts

Once the preserve of Israeli defence and intelligence groups, Hanoi is now starting to turn its back on them. This comes at a time when the US and Russia are courting the Vietnamese market more fervently than ever.

Europe, Vietnam
Germany nixes latest move in Vietnam's anti-corruption campaign

Vietnam's biggest ever corruption scandal, which has implications for Western defence companies, is fast turning into a diplomatic affair.

Europe, Vietnam
Hanoi's highly political investigation spills over into Geneva

Switzerland has found itself at the heart of a power-struggle at the highest echelons of the Vietnamese government, which is playing out in the Swiss capital and other European countries.

France, Vietnam
Convicted Vietnamese defence agent Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan's French connections

Wanted on corruption charges, the former CEO of AIC Group, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan, who served as a go-between for Western defence companies in Vietnam, is now on the run in China. Before that, she built an extensive network of contacts in France's political and defence circles.

France, Israel, Vietnam
Vietnam baulks at Airbus's observation satellite proposal

While the French embassy in Vietnam is still hoping that Airbus might land an earth observation satellite order, the Vietnamese government appears unready to commit, marking what could be the end of this central project in the two countries' bilateral defence cooperation and a blow to French chances of further defence contracts in Vietnam.