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The Agencies' Gazette
Rosfinmonitoring, France's GIC, Yellow Sea propaganda, US energy intel

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

RussiaEx-KGB and Rosfinmonitoring's mandate extended

FranceComputer data collection technique boom

ChinaDalian Maritime University ramps up propaganda

USDepartment of Energy's intel boosted

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Masdar's PR, DGSI's former 'Q', back to ADIT, GEOS in Guatemala

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

Abu DhabiPR firm Teneo wins advising contract with UAE's Masdar

ParisDGSI's former "Q" looking for job

ParisAnne-Solène Spido returns to ADIT

Guatemala CityGEOS renews EU security contract

Not so secret special funds redacted from French parliamentary intelligence report

The annual report by France's parliamentary intelligence delegation published last week will leave anyone seeking information about special funds wanting. Those details have been redacted, despite being publicly available elsewhere.

Elite '11e Choc' para regiment veterans' Bagheera association seeks new president

Bagheera, the veterans' association of the French army's elite "11e choc" parachute regiment, which was disbanded after the Algerian war, is to elect a new president in September. This will take place 80 years after the creation of the unit that formed the backbone of the French foreign intelligence service's clandestine branch, the Action Service.

The Agencies' Gazette
Intelligence College in Europe, Ex-CIA officer with RFK Jr, anti-Mafia force's new neighbour in Rome, French spies-turned-authors

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

France/GermanyBND official to head Intelligence College in Europe

USFormer CIA officer heads up the Department of Health and Human Services' intelligence unit

Italy/ChinaA discreet DIA branch in uproar over arrival of BYD

FranceDisagreement in parliament over censorship of ex-spies' books

From Myanmar to the Baltic states, French intel tracks former legionnaires working for private firms

Nearly two years after the Burmese fiasco, French intelligence officers are still monitoring networks of former Foreign Legion soldiers working as private security contractors. Investigators recently travelled to Estonia.

French sovereigntist activist barred from applying to DGSI security clearance role

An activist in a French sovereigntist association who applied for a job at France's DGSI intelligence agency requiring "top secret" clearance was rejected following a security investigation. A French court has upheld for the second time a ruling refusing his security clearance application.

Talks with Spanish police spurred ex-French interior minister's controversial remarks about Spain

The former French interior minister Bruno Retailleau, candidate in next year's French presidential election for Les Républicains party which he currently presides, sparked controversy when he stated on French television channel LCI on 20 April that he wanted to “ostracise” Spain from the European Union.

French Cyber Defence Command appoints new no. 3 and relocates headquarters

A former head of the French defence ministry's Directorate of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems' operations division is to become number three at France's Cyber Defence Command.

Israeli financial investigation specialist ThetaRay targets CAC 40

ThetaRay, a software company specialising in financial fraud investigations, is going on the offensive in France, where it is ramping up its efforts to engage with CAC 40 companies.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Alaco veteran departs, GSPR exec at Thales, EU security in Iraq

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

LondonAnother Alaco veteran bids farewell

ParisThales welcomes GSPR executive

BrusselsEurope gears up to re-tender its giant Iraq security contract

New special adviser for minister of state for French armed forces

Marc Mémier, a former adviser to the French National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, has joined the office of the Minister of State for the Armed Forces.

The limitations of the Paris-Seoul 'strategic partnership'

From the perspective of South Korean intelligence, the outcome of French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Seoul is mixed.