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The Agencies' Gazette
Mukhabarat in Sinai, Jordan's GID and Ukraine, Wang Yi, France's ANSSI

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

EgyptAbbas Kamel oversees new tribal group fighting against Islamic State in Sinai

JordanAhmed Husni deals with fallout from Amman's position on war in Ukraine

FranceANSSI's threat intelligence department gets new chief

France, UK, muscle into Seoul's Indo-Pacific plans

Since South Korea began openly discussing its position in the debate over the Indo-Pacific region's political and strategic architecture, delegations of French and British officials have been pouring into the country in an attempt to wield influence.

Armed with their major anti-drone contract, CS Group and Thales look to break into the Gulf

Now among the French army's suppliers of anti-drone equipment, the CS Group-Thales consortium wants to take advantage of this success. The Franco-Qatari cooperation will intensify right up to this year's football World Cup, while CS is trying to establish itself in Abu Dhabi with its rival MBDA.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
RosettiStarr, Farrant, Audere, ICSID/Paris Arbitration Week

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 and London.

WashingtonICSID establishes framework for litigation funding.

LondonAudere's new boss Oliver Blackmore gets into private security.

WashingtonRosettiStar hires Joe Andrews.

LondonFarrant looks to Africa.

French domestic intelligence service invited to join military cyber R&D center

A team of engineers from France's DGSI internal intelligence service is to be sent to the French defence ministry base in Bruz in Britanny. The centre designs cyber systems for the army but also develops big data and analytics systems, which are a key area of interest for the DGSI.

French armed forces general staff prioritises information warfare capacities

With information warfare a huge component of the Ukrainian conflict and France fast losing ground in the Sahel, the French armed forces general staff is determined to regain its footing in the field.

Spotlight
New corruption probe threatens French contract hopes in Jakarta

An investigation into the Indonesian defence ministry's award of a satellite contract is threatening to damage Airbus Defence and Space's chances at a time when Indonesia is a sought after market for defence contracts.

Space imaging provider Planet on a seduction mission in Paris

The US space observation company Planet hopes to enter the French market at a time when the Russian offensive in Ukraine has led to a boost of the intelligence sector. The company's high-resolution mission director Philippe Campenon is in charge of leading this politically charged sales effort.

The Agencies' Gazette
Israeli anti-missile system, Turkish-Kazakh cooperation, Macron decorates special forces

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.

Israel/GulfRiyadh, Abu Dhabi and Manama eye Tel Aviv's anti-missile shield

Turkey/KazakhstanKazakh and Turkish military intelligence services strengthen rapprochement

FrancePresident Emmanuel Macron and Special Forces' love-in continues

As top French firms quit Russia, what next for their local security contractors?

Russian private security firms, known as "chops", are continuing to prosper in Moscow, even though some of their top clients from France - CAC40 companies - are pulling out of the Russian market.

With Hezbollah in the firing line, Washington wins Mazen al-Atat's extradition from Paris

In a victory for the US courts, Paris has agreed to a request from New York judges for the extradition of the Lebanese citizen Mazen al-Atat, allegedly linked to Hezbollah. The move is contested by his French lawyers who believe there are no grounds for this decision.

France hired security firms to withdraw foreign citizens from Ukraine

Whether present or not in Ukraine before the conflict, several security companies were hired by French groups and diplomats to help evacuate expatriates as Russian troops entered the country.

Spotlight
Russia-Ukraine war prompts France to patch over deep intelligence gaps

The Ukraine conflict has forced France, like Germany, to rethink its 2023 defence budget in order to funnel more funds into special operations and intelligence equipment. Each agency and branch of the army is compiling its list of urgent requests.

The Agencies' Gazette
GCHQ's cyber academy, Kochavi in Manama, Li Keqiang's succession, DGSI training

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 Beijing via Manama and Paris.

ChinaXi Jinping's PM choices both from security world

United KingdomMoD staffs new Defence Cyber Academy

FranceDGSI to oversee inter-service intelligence training

Israel/BahrainTel Aviv seals security deal with Manama

FrancePro digital sovereignty lobby headed by former Huawei consultant

Ben Scott and Pierre Omidyar's anti-disinfo lobby monitoring French elections

Luminate and Reset are about to reveal the existence of their task force GVNIE, which is tracking fake news and hate speech in the run-up to the presidential election. Meanwhile, Viginum, the French agency dedicated to fighting foreign digital interference, is struggling to take off.