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The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Ex-MI5 boss opens firm, CIA vet at Forward, GardaWorld, John Reid Advisory

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

LondonFormer MI5 boss opens own firm at last

WashingtonEx-CIA officer joins Forward Risk and Intelligence

Tripoli/LondonGardaWorld keeps FCDO contract despite mishaps in Libya

LondonEx-interior minister under Blair offers his expertise to Aeralis

The Intelligence Gazette
Hossein Taeb dismissed, DGSE gets Tripoli villa, DRM celebrates 30th anniversary, New narrative in Belarus

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global intelligence community. This week we home in on Iran, France and Belarus.

IranTehran's Pasdaran spymaster on the way out

FranceLuxury villa awaits DGSE chief in Tripoli

FranceEx-directors absent from DRM's 30th anniversary

BelarusNew narrative in security circles towards the West

Latest hunt for Libyan assets seeks patron

Baker & Hostetler and Holland & Knight, two firms recently hired by a Libyan government agency to recover Gaddafi's lost billions just registered as foreign agents with the Department of Justice. They are now looking for a litigation funder.

Reports of MIT Libyan proxy withdrawal greatly exaggerated

While Paris and Berlin welcomed the announced withdrawal of Syrian [...]

Washington and Paris put Libya at top of diplomatic-security agenda

According to our sources, Paul Soler, French President Emmanuel Macron's adviser on Libya adviser since 2017 (IOL 861), is being [...]

Libyan summit to be held in Paris as French diplomatic agenda focuses on Turkey

Last minute (14/09/20 14:45): Shortly after publication, Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj's team, urged by his Turkish backer, informed French diplomats [...]

Mystery Alaskan airline records Syria-Libyan flights

Since the end of June, several websites that track flights in real time have reported surprising movement between Damascus and [...]

MIT to create "its" intelligence agency in Libya

Visiting Tripoli on 3 July, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar [...]

Moscow's Pantsir deployed to help Haftar

Russia has stepped up its military involvement in support of Libya's General Khalifa Haftar. Intelligence Online investigates the heavy deployment.

Moonshot CVE leads British cyber psy ops against Islamic State

A start-up launched with Google's support is using Adwords and Whatsapp and Telegram accounts to counter IS propaganda.

How DGSE operates in Libya

The death of three DGSE officers in Libya on July 17 sheds light on the French external intelligence service's activities in the country.

Argus Security obtains release of hostages in Tripoli

According to Intelligence Online's sources in Tripoli and Paris, Argus Security Projects, the private security firm headed by Hermann Baumgertener, [...]

Al Mutlaq, Tobruk intermediary

Emirati officials' e-mails that were recently leaked reveal the role that Al Mytlaq Tehcnology has played in arming the rebels supported by Abu Dhabi.

Argus in conflict with former Libyan advisor

Cyprus-registered private security operator Argus Security Projects, a privileged partner of the European Union in conflict zones, is under pressure from one of its former partners in Libya.

Beltech and Tesic arm General Haftar

With support from Belarus' armaments office, Serbia's star arms dealer Slobodan Tesic is increasingly active in civil war-torn Libya.

Aegis

Aegis, the private security firm founded by Tim Spencer, is [...]

Galea

Galea, the small private security company headed by Frenchmen Alain [...]