All over the world, spies have their favourite hangouts for hush-hush conversation and impromptu reunions. This week, Intelligence Online explores the prestigious Cercle de l'Union Interalliée in Paris, historically favoured by France's diplomatic and entrepreneurial elite but where members in the business of security and corporate intelligence are gradually making their mark.
It has only been a few years since the prestigious and very selective private club in Paris, the Cercle de l'Union Interalliée, timidly but surely started to open its doors to members from security and corporate intelligence circles, as debates over national sovereignty move into the mainstream. But presence in the Interalliée is yet another sign that these professions are emerging as a field in their own right, standing apart from the circles of power in whose shadows they had previously tended
