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A gift from MI6, Extradition to Russia refused, Vanuatu puts golden passports on hold, Pentagon's secret budget

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

United KingdomMI6 'freebie' fails to convince EU Commission

France/Russia/AzerbaijanNo extradition for former DTX collaborator

VanuatuPM pauses golden passports

United StatesAir Force gets most of Pentagon's classified budget

Armenia innovates in all directions to anticipate the next drone war

Electronic warfare, drones, data fusion software: overcoming Yerevan's weaknesses in previous conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh is the priority of Defense Minister Suren Papikyan.

On COP29 sidelines, lawyers ramp up efforts to defend one of their French clients in Baku

Lawyers representing French nationals held in Azerbaijan are taking advantage of the world climate conference being held in Baku to raise awareness of their client Théo Clerc's predicament.

The Intelligence 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

Technip Energies wins contracts in Baku under the Italian flag

Hiring French energy industry services companies is not a good look for Baku in light of the diplomatic tensions between France and Azerbaijan. But its calmer relations with Italy, a fervent support of trans-Adriatic gas projects, offers a handy alternative for some projects to go ahead.

France's DGSE caught off guard by Azerbaijani disinformation campaign

Paris has been surprised by the destabilisation operations carried out since last year by Azerbaijan. France's external intelligence service has nevertheless managed to identify the agents carrying out these operations for President Ilham Aliyev's regime.

Paris and Baku maintain communication despite tensions

In the current diplomatic stand-off between France and Azerbaijan, both countries have a trick up their sleeves. Each holds a national of the other, supposedly linked to the other's intelligence services, who could be used for a prisoner exchange.