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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.

The small US firm spreading anti-French Russian narratives in the English-speaking world

Through a deft game of collusion between Russia's state entities, the information war that Moscow is waging against Paris in New Caledonia is spreading to the United States and other English-language countries.

The Agencies' Gazette
War vet club's new PR head, Hanoi's info warfare guru, French intel academy, NRO preps for Congress, EU ready for Republicans

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

France Intelligence services vets club gets new head

Vietnam Information warfare master joins Politburo

France Intelligence academy broadens courses to further circles

Washington NRO adds muscle to Congress liaison office before possible Trump presidency

Washington EU keeps options open with US Republicans

Builder of DGSI's future HQ revealed

Following a lengthy and secretive process, France's domestic intelligence service has announced the winning consortium of the €1.3bn contract to construct its future headquarters and ensure the necessary security arrangements.

The Tech Telegraph
OSINT campus plan still vague, Helyx in charge of Spotter labelling, Cyberbit for ASD cyber training

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

AngoulêmeDespite defence ministry messages, OSINT campus still trying to find its place

LondonHelyx to take over labelling of UK Spotter programme

CanberraCyberbit to train Australian Signals Directorate cyber specialists

Washington keeps control of French drone intelligence tools at the Olympics

The French military's Reaper drones that will be flying over the Paris Olympics will remain under the close watch of their US designers, with French technicians not allowed to access to their most sensitive components.

French court overturns Algerian's nationality ruling over vague intelligence memo

A French administrative court has reversed an interior ministry decision to deny an Algerian's naturalisation that was based on a memo from the DGSI domestic intelligence agency claiming he worked with Algerian intelligence.

Iconic American vulnerability trader Zerodium to close its doors?

The US seller of zero-day vulnerabilities has been inactive for months and may be about to shut up shop for good. Its downfall is symbolic of a market in crisis.

Spotlight
Niger's uranium mines prompt spy satellite frenzy

As Niger comes under Russian influence, Washington and Paris are keeping a close eye on the country's uranium deposits. More discreetly, Beijing is also getting in on the same act.

French intelligence and drug trafficking: a patchwork of blurred powers

A French Senate report into drug trafficking points to intelligence weaknesses, including a "conspicuously absent" DGSI and police, gendarme and customs officials who disagree about the role of intelligence.

Race is on to provide space-based signal intelligence services in Indo-Pacific

France's Unseenlabs and US giant HawkEye 360 are prospecting Indo-Pacific states interested in keeping track of China's ghost ships under the guise of the need to combat illegal fishing.

French intelligence's 2023 special funds budget blowout

Every year, the French domestic and external intelligence services overspend their underfunded special funds budget. 2023 was no exception.