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The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
UN crisis communications, changes at Nardello Dubai, EPEE in Niger

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

StockholmSoftware firm lands UN crisis communications contract

DubaiNardello exec step down

France/NigerOrano and EPEE talks on closing uranium mines security contract underway

The Agencies' Gazette
Rare language translators sought, US-Cambodia resume military exercises, Scandinavian cooperation

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

France Intelligence services' struggles with rarer languages

Cambodia US defense secretary arriving to restart cooperation

Norway Scandinavian countries reboot joint intelligence effort

Saab agrees to defence cooperation as part of new Gripen aircraft deal

On Friday 23 February, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán announced that the government was buying four additional JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft from Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab, catching his own diplomatic corps off guard.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
GMTL receives Finkelstein, Securitas back to business in Turkey, Chorus lands new police contract

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

LondonGMTL receives Daniel Finkelstein

Ankara/StockholmBack to business for Securitas

SheffieldChorus Intelligence renews police contract

The Agencies' Gazette
Syrian chemical programme, UK's Economic Crime Committee, Swedish StratCom at NATO, Pakistani ambassador in Kabul, Skopje and NATO, PLA in Taiwan

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 Stockholm, via Kabul and Skopje.

France/SyriaFrench company Smart Pegasus remains under sanctions for participating in Syrian chemical weapons program.

United KingdomOpposition MP's push parliamentary Economic Crime Committee project.

Sweden/LatviaSwedish anti-fake news agency shines at NATO's StratCom.

Pakistan/AfghanistanISI investigates attempted assassination of Pakistani ambassador in Kabul.

North MacedoniaSkopje intelligence chief learns the rope at NATO.

ChinaPeople's Liberation Army tests modern urban warfare techniques to hone Taiwan strategy.

The Agencies' Gazette
New Iranian militia in Syria, Chinese retiree recall, Finnish border, Swedish NSA, ANSSI

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we hone in on Tehran and Zhengzhou, via Helsinki, Stockholm and Paris.

Iran/Syria IRGC mobilises new militia against US interests in Syria

China Retired military, state personnel hired to prevent iPhone production jam

Finland Border guards camp in the east

Sweden Bigger budget for interception agency FRA

France Senators move to make ANSSI more aggressive

East and West battle for Serbia's mass surveillance software market

The Serbian government is engaged in a delicate balancing act, as it tries to combine state-of-the-art Swedish and American software systems with its already installed Chinese biometric surveillance systems. It is looking for Western technical support and financing to help it do this.

Paris juggles demand for MMP missiles for Ukraine and for export

MMP missiles currently equip French troops stationed in Romania as well as Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces. They are also earmarked for export, despite French stocks being lower than planned.

Online investigator Silobreaker to work for the young Swedish anti-fake news agency

The Swedish-British data analysis company Silobreaker is to provide an open source intelligence platform to the the anti-disinformation agency Myndigheten för Psykologiskt Försvar. This comes at a time when the country is living in fear of interference from Russia in the run-up to this year's parliamentary elections.

Facing Putin, Nordic intelligence takes aim at the Arctic

For the first time, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian intelligence chiefs will be attending an Arctic-focused forum in Helsinki this week.

New Swedish anti-fake news agency boosts online investigation capacity to counter Russian threat

Like their counterparts in other Western countries, Sweden's intelligence services are looking for open source intelligence contractors to help them combat Russian propaganda.

Cyber-security agency to be led by intelligence community

Sweden's interception service, the Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA), and its counterintelligence [...]

Former Saab executives steer Consilio towards China

The Swedish consulting firm Consilio International, headed by former diplomat Erik Belfrage, is bidding to enter the Chinese market. The [...]

Encrypted messages cause counter-espionnage concerns

Actively involved in fighting Russian counter-intelligence ( IOL n°827), in [...]