Spotlight | China, France
Chinese tricks for infiltrating French foreign intelligence revealed

The Agencies' Gazette
DIA's ongoing vacancy, re-election at French intel vets body, PLA's anti-corruption meetings

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

United StatesDIA struggles to find new head of counter-narcotics

FranceAlain Juillet re-elected head of intelligence veterans association

ChinaCentral Military Commission applies Xi Jinping's directives

China, France
EU slaps sanctions on hackers linked to Chinese intelligence services

The European Union has imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies involved in cyber-espionage. One of them, I-Soon, has been under scrutiny by the US and UK authorities for the past year.

China, Europe
Germany's UNESCO ambassador irritates Beijing

UNESCO ambassadors were asked not to broach certain sensitive topics during an internal meeting on China. Berlin's representative did not follow this instruction.

France
France's DGSI domestic intelligence on edge ahead of Xi Jinping's visit

With the Chinese president about to arrive for a state visit, the French domestic intelligence service is stepping up its efforts to track down potential Chinese spies.

Spotlight | China, Ukraine
SBU hunts Chinese spies interested in Western weapons

Ukrainian intelligence services are stepping up their investigations into Chinese nationals who may be looking a little too closely at the manufacturing secrets of Western weapons supplied to Ukraine.

China, France
How a senior DGSE operative vanished

The station chief of France's DGSE in Beijing defected and is now living in China under the benevolent protection of local agencies.