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The Agencies' Gazette
Counterspy heads DGSI economic unit, CIA loses China expert, Spy film prefigured DGSE HQ move, China's 'wolf warriors' return

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

FranceCounter-espionage expert takes charge at DGSI economic security unit

United StatesCIA loses top China expert

FranceFrench 2008 spy film prefigured DGSE's future move to Fort Neuf

China‘Wolf warrior' diplomacy makes a comeback

China makes leap forward in space-based intelligence

With the Trump administration's paradigm shift leaving Washington in disarray, and drastic cuts looming for US scientific agencies, Beijing has been closing the gap in its space defence and intelligence repertoire with low-orbit satellite launches.

How US geospatial intelligence uncovered China's 'Pentagon' project

US intelligence agencies had already discovered that China was building its own mammoth version of the Pentagon months before Western media revealed the project's existence on 30 January. We investigate this US geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) success story.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSI and transnational repression, Signal and US diplomats in Kyiv, DGSE flooded with CVs, Xi Jinping culls bonuses

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

FranceDGSI fights transnational repression in five languages

United StatesUS Embassy in Kyiv slammed for use of Signal

FranceDGSE wades through 900 CVs a week to fill vacancies

ChinaXi Jinping pulls rug on finance, tech and defence bonuses

Beijing's new spy satellite orbiting over Africa is thorn in NATO's side

The media followed the launch of the Chinese intelligence satellite TJS-14 on 23 January, but did not pay attention to its final destination. It now appears that it was positioned late last week in a geosynchronous orbit that is particularly intrusive for NATO as it is in the middle of its members' constellations, including the French Syracuse.

Evangelical churches in Taiwan answer Beijing's call to service

The Chinese Communist Party is banking on support from religious groups that operate outside China to help spread its reunification narrative. Beijing has persuaded some preachers to push a rhetoric of "peace and harmony" with their congregations in online workshops.

The Agencies' Gazette
French customs intelligence overhaul, Chinese academics under surveillance, Ex-NSC exec in Columbia, China's A330 in Vanuatu

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

FranceCustoms intelligence COO moves on after role axed

ChinaCCP heightens surveillance of Chinese academics abroad

United StatesBiden's deputy national security adviser joins Columbia

Vanuatu/ChinaChinese aid plane used to test Port Vila runway

Chinese Communist Party broadens closed-door brainstorming sessions

The Central Party School has launched seminars meant to further knowledge sharing between researchers and members of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE execs get Legion of Honour, Taiwan seeks out CCP, French MPs report on foreign interference, French interior ministry's 'Minority Report'

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

FranceDGSE executives awarded highest honours

Taiwan/ChinaTaipei wants to maintain contact with CCP to gauge Xi Jinping's intentions

FranceMPs reports on foreign interference stacking up

FranceFlash ‘Minority Report' in hands of new interior minister Bruno Retailleau

The Agencies' Gazette
French PM's intelligence decider, Indonesia strategist in Paris, Campus Cyber, China/Russia media cooperation, DNI and climate change

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

FranceFrench PMs' decision maker on intelligence-gathering

IndonesiaMilitary intelligence strategist arrives in Paris

FranceVan den Berghe receives honour in front of cyber elite

ChinaBeijing seeks greater control of Russian media narrative in Global South through teamwork

United StatesDirector of National Intelligence concerned about climate change under Trump

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
GMTL, Consors Intelligence, US-Armenian probe, Hakluyt staff losses, finance corruption crackdown in China

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

LondonGordon Rainey joins GMTL

ParisConsors Intelligence picks Marc Martinez as new GM

Washington/YerevanEx-Armenian finance minister's family under DoJ probe hires help

London Hakluyt's cyber specialists exodus

BeijingHas the crackdown on corruption in the finance sector run its course?