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The Agencies' Gazette
Access to UK Special Forces, DGSI and criminal records, JIO's new hub, TurkStream under threat and spying on French pilots in China?

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 London, Paris and Budapest.

United KingdomBen Wallace and the Defence Committee cross swords over parliamentary control of UK Special Forces.

FranceDGSI to have permanent access to criminal records file.

United KingdomThe Joint Intelligence Organisation creates an OSINT "insights hub".

HungaryBudapest scans TurkStream for sabotage risks.

FranceIs DGSE now keeping an eye on ex-Air Force staff abroad following Intelligence Online's revelations?

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Spottiswoode goes to FTI, Exiger hires ex-BACB, Sanction Scanner in US and Chiron head writes book

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 New York, London, Paris and Istanbul.

LondonJocelyn Spottiswoode poached by FTI.

New York/LondonExiger Diligence hires AML expert Saba Ahmad.

Washington/IstanbulTurkish Sanction Scanner to screen potential sanctioned persons from US.

ParisHead of security firm Chiron publishes autobiography on former life as paratrooper.

London and Washington grow ever closer in hunt for oligarchs

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, the United Kingdom and the United States have further increased their financial intelligence sharing, first to track down Russian oligarchs and then, more surreptitiously, for reasons of economic security in the face of China.

Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman lead the charge against sanctions

The two businessmen are each trying as much to distance themselves from the Russian government as to take on sanctions imposed on them by the UK and the European Union - and they are using the same circles of French and British lawyers to do so.

Door slammed on SLAPP filed against G3 by a former surveillance target

The UK courts have dismissed a complaint against investigation firm G3, putting an end to a legal vendetta launched by a rival of one of the company's customers.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
BDO, Ed Vaizey advises Altermind, Williamson at Control Risks, Treliant back in the game

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 New York, London and Paris.

New York BDO's forensics boss dismissed

London/Paris Ed Vaizey advises Actum and Altermind

London Hugo Williamson back to corporate intelligence

New York Treliant moves into compliance and investigations

Highgate revives its Ukrainian networks for Wagner prosecution case

London intelligence firm Highgate is counting on its strong Ukrainian links to back lawyers from McCue Jury and Partners, who are representing a group of Kyiv citizens taking Russian paramilitary group Wagner before the High Court in London for allegations of terrorism.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Amarante in the south of France, Kroll waiting on money, McRoberts back to Veracity, 5 Stones expands to SIGINT

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 New York, London, Miami and Marseille.

New York Kroll waiting for Smerling fraud money

London Carla McRoberts returns

Miami 5 Stones Intelligence expands into technical intelligence

Marseille Muselier brings in Amarante

UK parliament calls on MI6, MI5 and GCHQ to play role in preventing atrocities

Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and with one eye on developments in the US, Britain's parliamentary International Development Select Committee is calling for the intelligence community to support the Foreign Office's new Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation (OCSM).

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Audere, Wallbrook, ESL & Network

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 London, Paris and Antananarivo.

LondonNew managing director joins upbeat Audere.

LondonAndrew Briggs back to bank

Paris/Antananarivo Perceau brokers Rajoelina-ESL & Network PR deal

The Agencies' Gazette
CIA and Taliban, UK geospatial intel, Russian control centre in Ukraine, Serbian BIA

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 Doha, Baghdad, London and Moscow.

United States/AfghanistanIslamabad and Doha aid CIA-Taliban meeting.

United KingdomIntelligence issues in British space strategy.

RussiaIntelligence services at heart of new Ukraine coordination council.

SerbiaVucic blends geopolitics with internal security.

The Tech Telegraph
FiveCast and Operation Zero

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

Adelaide/London Titmuss and Patterson join OSINT expert FiveCast

Saint Petersburg Russian zero-day Operation Zero comes out of the woodwork

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Alaco restructures after takeover, Quinlan, Silverbridge, new Africa-focused London firm

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on new developments great and small in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to London, New York and San Paolo.

LondonNew London-based firm focuses on South Africa.

New YorkStoneturn loses a partner.

LondonSilverbridge takes on new consultant.

New YorkFrench investigator joins Quinlan.

LondonAlaco restructures following takeover.

Broker threatens to spill Thales's Indian secrets to US authorities

An Indian businessman who acted as intermediary for French aerospace group Thales is threatening to serve as a whistleblower to US anti-corruption authorities - a way of pressuring the company to pay him fees he says it owes for a deal to upgrade Mirage fighter jets.

The Agencies' Gazette
Pasdaran Unit 840, names for Tibet and Hong Kong, EU intel sharing, Novichok, Biden's priorities

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Tehran to London via Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Washington and Lhasa.

IranIRGC's Unit 840 activated to dampen civil unrest.

ChinaNew names for Tibet and Hong Kong.

EuropeEU member states to increase information sharing.

United KingdomNovichok questions shut down.

United StatesBiden's national security priorities in keywords.