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The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE's green goals, cybersecurity between Sultans, Lithuanian sanctions, Syrian airspace jitters

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Nur-Sultan.

FranceDGSE goes green to justify pricey new head office.

Bahrain/OmanCybersecurity dominates cooperation talks between Manama and Mascat.

LithuaniaAnti-money laundering veteran takes helm of foreign ministry's 'sanctions' group.

Israel/SyriaTsahal seeks new targets from Syrian skies.

French ministries battle for influence over online counterinterference effort

The French foreign and defence ministries are vying for leadership on strategic communication in response to foreign propaganda, while Viginum, an agency created to fight online interference, and the intelligence services are increasingly cooperating on its monitoring.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Audere, Wallbrook, ESL & Network

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 London, Paris and Antananarivo.

LondonNew managing director joins upbeat Audere.

LondonAndrew Briggs back to bank

Paris/Antananarivo Perceau brokers Rajoelina-ESL & Network PR deal

Detekt'in helps Chinese firm Nuctech enter French market

Paris-based security systems distributor Detekt'in is helping Chinese scanner manufacturer Nuctech, a company close to the Chinese defence ecosystem, expand in France. Long barred from the United States, Nuctech is coming under increased scrutiny in Europe.

Cyber offence specialist Cy4gate reinforces its presence in France by buying Diateam

Italian cyber-intelligence company Cy4gate is taking over cybersecurity company Diateam, which has strong connections in the French defence sector.

Qatar's French Mirage head for Jakarta

Initially considered for training missions in France, then promised to Bulgaria, 12 French Air Force Mirage will instead wing their way to Indonesia, whose government is trying to wean itself off Russian materiel.

Greenpeace strengthens investigations division with corporate intelligence hiring

Private investigation companies and advocacy NGOs are building bridges as the former professionalise their intelligence collection.

Broker threatens to spill Thales's Indian secrets to US authorities

An Indian businessman who acted as intermediary for French aerospace group Thales is threatening to serve as a whistleblower to US anti-corruption authorities - a way of pressuring the company to pay him fees he says it owes for a deal to upgrade Mirage fighter jets.

With Vinci, Bouygues and Thales, French industry turns back towards Turkmenistan

The gradual reopening of Turkmenistan to foreign business representatives, after the Covid-19 pandemic, has revived discussions with French industrial partners, who have sought the advice of their historical contacts in the country.

Spotlight
OTDH provides test for French cyber-intelligence ecosystem

The DGSI's trials of the OTDH heterogenous data analysis platform will show if the French cyber marketplace has room for a newcomer unconnected to the traditional defence suppliers Thales, Dassault and Airbus.

Spotlight
Moscow poised to recover funds in French court asset tracking case

An upcoming French court decision could see the properties belonging to the New York wife of a former Moscow official, accused of fraud in Russia, seized by the French state. With Moscow still under sanctions, such an outcome could change the way Russia goes about claiming assets.

French newcomer Sinopole targets Chinese market

The new offshoot of French consultancy Montsalvy Consulting is working to help French firms in China navigate the fields most under Chinese Communist Party control.

From Paris, ESL & Network promotes the reputation of an increasingly Russia-aligned Madagascar

The French firm has been appointed to smooth relations between the French and Malagasy governments, in the wake of multiple tensions which include Antananarivo's honeymoon with Moscow.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Nardello, BPCE, Alaco, Paris forensic investigators

Appointments, financial results, new contracts, in Washington, London and Paris: each week, we recount the great and small events in the global corporate intelligence community.

WashingtonNardello loses cyber chief.

ParisBPCE strengthens security with financial intelligence specialist.

LondonAlaco expands with Liberia contract.

ParisForensic investigators network.

The Agencies' Gazette
Cofrex, Viginum, Uzbek SGB, US Captagon crackdown

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

FranceCOFREX picks representative for its Expo 2025 Osaka presence.

FranceStéphane Bouillon discloses Viginum's annual report.

UzbekistanInternal Security Service adds another layer to border control.

WashingtonDNI to sniff out Assad-linked Captagon.