Poland, Ukraine, United States
Warsaw and Pinchuk join forces in Washington

Poland
The long reach of the State of Poland Foundation, Warsaw's soft power tool

The foundation's website says it is in liquidation, but its board members have close ties to ongoing influence operations.

Ukraine, United States
The US Center for European Policy Analysis, a key interface for Polish, Ukrainian and US defence networks

Based in Washington, the think-tank promotes closer transatlantic ties, but most of all provides vital defence contacts for Kyiv and Warsaw.

Armenia, Europe, France
Former NATO secretary-general lobbying for Yerevan

Ex-NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen penned an op-ed in support of Armenia in Le Monde on 4 April, but his article failed to mention that his firm has lobbied for Yerevan since last year.

Turkey, Ukraine, United States
US consultancy Varyag prospecting in Kyiv for Turkish giant Kontrolmatik

The business diplomacy firm Varyag, founded by a former CIA officer, has been in touch with US agencies over potential reconstruction contracts in Ukraine.

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.

France, Ukraine
Parisian PR veterans back Kyiv through #StandWithUkraine

#StandWithUkraine, a French association headed by two PR professionals with close connections to Kyiv, is heavily involved in the communications and legal side of the war in Ukraine. It has been carrying out a series of public relations operations in Europe.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Quinlan turns to Newsweek, Treliant at Exigen, Beth with Oriol, Boulègue at Audere, Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to London, Washington and Paris.

Washington Journalist-hungry Quinlan hires Newsweek reporter

Washington Treliant poaches exec from Exiger to increase corporate intelligence capacities

Paris Battesti loses Dessenne but still with Beth

London/Paris Post-Soviet expert Boulègue joins Audere and CEPA

London Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

Poland, Ukraine, United States
Warsaw fights information war for Kyiv in North America

The Polish government, which is already at the heart of the logistical system for the Western response to Russia's war on Ukraine, is also one of Kyiv's leading allies in the information war. It is using American firms to carry out its communications campaigns.

Ukraine, United Kingdom
Highgate revives its Ukrainian networks for Wagner prosecution case

London intelligence firm Highgate is counting on its strong Ukrainian links to back lawyers from McCue Jury and Partners, who are representing a group of Kyiv citizens taking Russian paramilitary group Wagner before the High Court in London for allegations of terrorism.

Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, United States
Facing Putin, Nordic intelligence takes aim at the Arctic

For the first time, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian intelligence chiefs will be attending an Arctic-focused forum in Helsinki this week.

Ukraine, United States
'Minor incursion' or not, US still leading light weapon deliveries to Kyiv

Even as the White House briefly took a more tempered pitch in the on-going trading of threats between the US and Russia over Ukraine, US aid, backed with new arms suppliers, continues to help Kyiv build up its defence.

Spotlight | Ukraine
Kiev lobbyists try to get on Trump's radar

Caught between the bellicose Kremlin and a pro-Russian White House, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is putting pressure on his lobbyists to stay visible in Trump's international agenda.

France
Fouks launches his own strategic intelligence firm

Stephane Fouks, the influential vice-president of Havas Worldwide, has added another string to his bow by founding his own strategic [...]

Ukraine
Pinchuk's friends in the West

With tension increasing again in Ukraine, the Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk is developing his network of relationships in the US and Europe on the back of his pro-Western image.

United States
New cybersecurity company MeasuredRisk brings together investigations veterans

With K2 Intelligence and Stroz Friedberg already battling one another for leadership of the US cyber-security market in the US, a group of veteran investigators have recently launched new player MeasuredRisk.

United States
Two Old CIA Hands Join Forces

Mike Baker and Jack Devine, who both served for the CIA's Directorate of Operations in the past, are now working together in a private intelligence firm.