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Cairo shifts view on Syria, DGSE on Order of Liberation board, drones for Portuguese military, ex-FSO to Russian Security Council, CIA moles

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets of news, big and small, from the global intelligence community. This week we hone in on Cairo, Moscow, Lisbon and Paris.

Egypt/Syria Cairo shifts position on Syria's return to Arab League

Portugal Military intelligence eyes US drones

Russia Yet another ex-FSO officer joins Security Council

France DGSE wants seat on Order of the Liberation board

United States Baer vs Redmond, score settling between former CIA officers over a book

CHERRY-PICKING AMONG EX DINFO AGENTS

Former operatives of the Divisao de Informacao das Forcas Armadas [...]

RUI CARLOS PEREIRA

By his own admission, Rui Carlos Pereira, who has just been named boss of Portugal's domestic civilian intelligence agency Servico [...]

DIPLOMAT TO RUN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

After long months of hesitation, the government has finally named [...]

MACAU'S INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN VANISHING ACT

Under pressure from China, Portugal has begun dismantling its intelligence [...]

HOW OLD CONTACTS CAN BE USEFUL

The former director of international relations for Portugal's civilian intelligence [...]

FIGHT FOR SIEDM POST

The fight for the chairmanship of the future Servicos de [...]

U.S. TRAINING IN INTELLIGENCE

U.S. intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and DIA, are to help Portugal train members of its future foreign intelligence service [...]

MILITARY MISGIVINGS

Jorge Sampaio's election as new Portuguese president on Jan. 14 [...]

POLICE AND INTELLIGENCE OVERHAUL

Portugal's new socialist government has named a magistrate and deputy [...]

SPY ALLEGATIONS SURFACE AGAIN

Following the recent government change in Lisbon, allegations that Portuguese [...]

DIAS BRANCO

Gen. Dias Branco, head of the Portuguese military intelligence service Servicos de Informacao Militar (SIM), has found himself embroiled in [...]

TOP OFFICIALS FIRED

On 23 May interior minister Dias Loureiro fired the general [...]

CHANGES AT THE TOP IN INTELLIGENCE

Pedro Cardoso, power broker in Portuguese counter-espionage, will apparently be [...]

SERGIO DIAS BRANCO

Lieutenant General Sergio Dias Branco was recently appointed the head of Portuguese DINFO military intelligence. He is an operations specialist [...]

UNWANTED PUBLICITY FOR DINFO

The Servicos de Informacao Militar (SIM) military intelligence service, better [...]

LISBON'S NEW COMMAND SYSTEM

The Lisbon Metropolitan Police Force is to be equipped with the Tactic Plus system produced by Marconi Speech and Information [...]

OSCAR CARDOSO

"The PIDE was never a humanitarian institution ... and I was one of the worst", recently declared Oscar Cardoso, former [...]

The executive branch of the Portuguese government only has one [...]