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The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
MPP protects LVMH again, 5 Stones minus Harrington, Nardello in Singapore

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Paris, Miami and New York.

Paris MPP returns to protect LVMH

Miami Harrington flies solo again after 5 Stones

New York Nardello returns to Asia

The Agencies' Gazette
Intelligence Academy seeks director, Abbas Ibrahim's mandate, Moscow's anti-drone battle, CIA's PCRB problem, Bulgarian intelligence

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we look at Moscow, Washington, Paris, Sofia and Beirut.

France Intelligence Academy advertises for new director

Lebanon Berri joins push to extend Ibrahim's mandate

Russia Intelligence at forefront of fight against drones

United States CIA publication review process questioned

Bulgaria Internal security under scrutiny

French military veteran Bernard Velly redeploys in Saudi Arabia with Scopa Industries

Saudi Arabian private conglomerate Ajlan & Bros's subsidiary Scopa Industries has roped in influential consultants in a bid to carve a role for itself in the kingdom's developing sovereign defence industry. While Scopa's first priority is US defence, it is also trying to get closer to French companies.

The West's scattered response to its ex-fighter pilots training Chinese counterparts

For some time, US, Australian, British and French pilots have been training their Chinese air force counterparts, as we revealed in May last year. Caught unprepared, their governments are now scrambling to find legal means to stop the practice from benefitting their strategic adversary.

Spotlight
All eyes on DGSE's move into Indo-Pacific

The former head of French external intelligence agency, the DGSE, is opening an office in Singapore to help it expand its presence in the region. China is keeping a close watch, as are France's European and US allies.

The Agencies' Gazette
Mossad attack on Iran, War economy discussed at French National Assembly, Rondot gets a biography, Russian mobilisation, Nippon Foundation head meets the Pope, Russian security council reshuffled

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we visit Tehran, Paris, Rome and Moscow.

Israel/IranMossad satisfied by latest operation against Iran

FranceNational Assembly studies defence group financing

FranceIntelligence veteran Rondot gets a biography

RussiaMobilisation and conscription continue to split the elites

Japan/VaticanNippon Foundation president meets Pope Francis

RussiaNikolai Patrushev's inner circle remodelled

Parisian PR veterans back Kyiv through #StandWithUkraine

#StandWithUkraine, a French association headed by two PR professionals with close connections to Kyiv, is heavily involved in the communications and legal side of the war in Ukraine. It has been carrying out a series of public relations operations in Europe.

Ergo, Vantage, G3, Silverbridge, Audere, Amarante, GEOS, Baubigeat Zeller

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

France's Bull must do without its former defence ministry digital strategy chief

Regulations are getting tougher on private sector roles that top-ranking military and intelligence officers in France can take on after their retirement.

Anti-corruption agency pleads for closer collaboration with intelligence services

During his hearing by the MPs from the parliamentary enquiry commission on foreign interference on 26 January, the head of the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA), Charles Duchaine, pleaded for greater collaboration with the intelligence services.

Ankara bids to get into space observation's major league with Impro

Young public sector company Impro, which markets the images taken by Turkey's military satellites, has set up a partnership with Telespazio to help it boost Turkey's geospatial intelligence capacity ahead of the eagerly awaited arrival of the Gokturk-3 observation satellite.

Paris and Berlin in race to woo Ashgabat for business

French companies are making a beeline for Turkmenistan, which has opened its borders after two years, but there is competition from Germany, which is putting big efforts into business diplomacy to court the Turkmen authorities.