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The Agencies' Gazette
Iraqi PM still heading INIS, France's Intelligence Review Commission beefs up controls, Germany's secret clearances scrutinised

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Baghdad to Paris and Berlin.

IraqMohammed Shia al-Sudani still helming INIS

FranceIntelligence control commission beefs up retrospective controls outside Paris

GermanySecrecy clearances under fire in parliament

The Tech Telegraph
ODNI pores over cyberintel industry, Fabian Kaiser moves to ISTARI Global, Sacha Bailly heads Dataminr's defence sales and Belgian spyware

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

WashingtonIs the US clamping down on the cyber intelligence industry?

MunichFabian Kaiser takes over ISTARI Global's office in Munich

ParisSacha Bailly, French Navy and Airbus veteran takes helm of Dataminr's defence activities in France

BrusselsIntelligence oversight committee gives green light to Belgian spyware development

The Tech Telegraph
Stevan Perrot joins Sahar, German laser communication, EDA uses GMVIS Skysoft and Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre

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

ParisStevan Perrot joins Sahar as new COO

MunichGerman military wants to ramp up laser communication capacity

BrusselsGMVIS Skysoft and Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre provide aviation cybersecurity skills to European Defence Agency

Allies increasingly concerned about intelligence cooperation with Germany's BND

Foreign partner services fear exposure from recent Russian infiltration of the German external intelligence service.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Vcheck changes leadership, Schmidt goes from Schillings to CT Group, Hakluyt recruits, FTI and Orrick on sanctions in Germany

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

New YorkVcheck shakes things up at the top

LondonAnna Schmidt moves from Schillings to CT Group

LondonRich pickings for Hakluyt in the US

LondonNiblett also advises Hakluyt

Berlin/WashingtonSanctions platform steered by FTI and Orrick

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.

British, UAE intel firms help Iraq money-laundering fight with German funding

German development agency GIZ is funding a programme to help Iraq in its fight against money-laundering and with its asset recovery probes. Two firms have been chosen for this financial investigation job: Britain's Adam Smith International and Emirati company IntelliSys.

Brussels brings in consultants to help it learn first lessons from war on Ukraine

The European Defence agency plans to use analysis from a panel of German and French advisory and corporate intelligence companies as the basis for its 2023 defence and capacity development programme.

Lobbyist Ron Phillips is back in the game promoting French-German land defence interests in DC

With the US defence budget poised for a sharp increase, particularly in land defence, Franco-German consortium KNDS has rekindled its relationship with Republican Ron Phillips, its historical lobbyist in Washington.

German Plath Group gains ground in Southeast Asia, starting in Dhaka

Plath Group has already sold systems to the armed forces in Bangladesh and is rapidly expanding in Asia.

The Tech Telegraph
German security sector eyes 2026 World Cup, Vigilant Labs recruits, Variston exposed by Google, Anton Ivanov joins Technology Innovation Institute, Jerome Pasinetti heads Rhea Cybersecurité France

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of the technical intelligence providers.

Frankfurt/WashingtonGermany's security ecosystem gets in gear for World Cup 2026.

SydneyVigilant Labs rallies L3 Trenchant's exploit hunters.

BarcelonaGerman Ralf Wegener's cyber-intelligence firm Variston in Google spotlight.

Abu DhabiAnton Ivanov appointed to head Technology Innovation Institute's space research.

ParisJérôme Pasinetti appointed to head Rhea Cybersecurité France.

Goetzpartners to open doors for German industry in Turkmenistan once again

A recent trip to Ashgabat by Goetzpartners' veteran duo could spell new opportunities for the Munich-based strategy consultancy that had once been close to the former Turkmen president before their falling out.

BND's new second in command Philipp Wolff provides fast track to Paris

The German foreign intelligence service has placed its former representative in France at the head of its administration, just as Paris and Berlin relations are going through a cold spell. The new BND vice-president has his work cut out for him with a raft of internal issues to deal with.

Sport big data giant Sportradar, private investigator for Germany's antidoping watchdog

The company, which specialises in collecting and analysing sport data, has been growing its investigations and compliance practice. With the help of former British intelligence officers, it monitors doping, match fixing and online betting fraud.

Bernhard Pawlak brings Israeli cyber to Germany

The 2Market Europe boss and former head of sales at Q Cyber Technologies (aka NSO Group) is helping international cyber specialists lay down roots in Germany.

Andreas Mitsis plays go-between for Greek military and German arms industry

Rheinmetall and KMW's local partner, EODH president Andreas Mitsis, is hard at work in Athens to secure major land defence contracts for the two German arms manufacturers. But the country's decision-makers are lukewarm about these potential deals, which come as Greece faces budgetary constraints linked to Europe's energy crisis.