Ambani is the key intermediary for the French military-industrial complex in India. ©Bloomberg FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
Peter Thiel has become Trump's principal technology adviser. ©Bloomberg UNITED STATES Published on 09/08/2017 Thiel is Trump's intelligence guru
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FRANCE 01/11/2017 French MPs brush up their intelligence Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, the head of the French [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 18/10/2017 Airbus: Enders plays ball with investigators, Elysee Palace frets Airbus Group has so far refused to invoke the French "blocking statute", which prohibits the disclosure of information to foreign public authorities. [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 ANSSI builds its own data centre According to our sources, France's computer security agency, the Agence Nationale de la Securite des Systemes d'Information (ANSSI), is building [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 Battesti exfiltered from China to interior ministry Eric Battesti, a commissioner who used to be with France's [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 Public security under territorial intelligence influence The rumour is getting louder that Philippe Bertrand is in [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 Risk & Co reconfigures after shake-up In the wake of founder Bruno Delamotte's departure as chief executive (IOL 786), leading French private security company Risk & [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 Al Tunisi, an advisor among many to Thales in Riyadh Thales was well represented during the Saudi Arabia day organised [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 S-RM picks Bedouet in Paris Frederic Bedouet, the former interim head of the Paris office [...]
FRANCE 18/10/2017 Gallice and Hyleos reply Hyleos Surete and Gallice have responded to an article that [...]
Breaking news FRANCEKAZAKHSTAN 10/10/2017 Ablyazov case rebounds in France According to our information, lawyer Antonin Lévy, who has represented Kazakh bank BTA, will be heard at his request on [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 04/10/2017 Paris turning into e-reputation management hub A few specialist firms have turned Paris into something of a hub for clandestine influence operations and online propaganda. Demeter Partners has beeen blazing the trail. [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Special Funds commission chief a friend of Lebanon Loic Kervran, an MP of Emmanuel Macron's party, has been [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 DGSI and the police get spy-cameras with European cash After placing a €1.2 million order for spy cameras that can be hidden in rear-view mirrors and baby car seats [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Less SIGINT control than ever for French intelligence services Under the terms of the internal security law passed a [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Budget restrictions hit DGSE and special forces Budget cuts announced by the French government in September will [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Naval Group's long term export chief may be on way out According to our sources, Philippe Sauvageot is set to step down as international director of Naval Group (ex-DCNS). Sauvageot's departure [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Libyan honeymoon between Erys Group and Zintan Arnaud Dessenne and Stephane Gerardin's Erys Group, has been contracted [...]
FRANCERUSSIA 04/10/2017 Bokarev leads Alstom in Central Asia Andrei Bokarev, the powerful Russian magnate who heads the rail company Transmashholding and is close to the Kremlin, is extending his influence into Central Asia, much to the benefit of his French partner Alstom. [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Texplained detects hackers and backdoors in computer chips The French startup has invented a way to protect microchips from traps that can be inserted during manufacture. [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Presidential CTC welcomes back Chirac's intelligence henchmen France's new National Counter-terrorism Centre, set up on President Emmanuel Macron's orders, is creating a role for Jacques Chirac's intelligence inner circles. [...]
FRANCE 20/09/2017 Argenson may oversee Odas closure Daniel Argenson, France's armaments inspector, is being tipped to replace [...]
FRANCE 20/09/2017 Government and DGSI lean towards biometric ID The launch of a biometric identity governmental project, announced by France's interior minister Gerard Collomb on September 6, may open [...]
FRANCEUNITED KINGDOM 20/09/2017 PNF, SFO join forces on Oberthur probe According to our sources, France's Parquet National Financier (PNF) and its British equivalent, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), are working [...]
FRANCE 20/09/2017 New pathways between intelligence and private sector A decree that went barely noticed recently will make it [...]
FRANCE 20/09/2017 Calvar joins private sector Following his retirement as director of the DGSI, France's internal [...]
