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The Agencies' Gazette
DGSI and transnational repression, Signal and US diplomats in Kyiv, DGSE flooded with CVs, Xi Jinping culls bonuses

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

FranceDGSI fights transnational repression in five languages

United StatesUS Embassy in Kyiv slammed for use of Signal

FranceDGSE wades through 900 CVs a week to fill vacancies

ChinaXi Jinping pulls rug on finance, tech and defence bonuses

Ex-CIA and pro-Trump execs back AI startup eyeing intelligence agencies

The new US administration's artificial intelligence frenzy is prompting AI companies looking to clinch deals with the intelligence community to approach former CIA executives who served during Donald Trump's first term.

Sheikh Sultan Al Thani, the Qatari investor-diplomat pouring funds into Trump's America

A recent disclosure by the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, shows he undertook lobbying work in 2023 for the investment group of Sultan Jassim Al Thani. The latter claims to be acting independently, but records show the Qatari royal is a registered diplomat in London.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
DGA Group is hiring, spies in Davos, DHS provider's lobbyist

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

London/WashingtonDGA Group brings in new sleuths

SwitzerlandThree big names in intelligence seen in Davos

WashingtonIntelligence community provider picks out new lobbyist

The Agencies' Gazette
French customs intelligence overhaul, Chinese academics under surveillance, Ex-NSC exec in Columbia, China's A330 in Vanuatu

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

FranceCustoms intelligence COO moves on after role axed

ChinaCCP heightens surveillance of Chinese academics abroad

United StatesBiden's deputy national security adviser joins Columbia

Vanuatu/ChinaChinese aid plane used to test Port Vila runway

Hack-for-hire broker Aviram Azari leaves prison and returns to Israel

The private eye is known to have acted as a broker between Indian hack-for-hire firms and Western clients, and notably worked on the Wirecard case. His early release comes as his former partner, Amit Forlit, fights extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Tory donor crafts own narrative, Revue des Deux Mondes and Bousquet, Bulgarian refinery lobbying

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

LondonTory donor Mohamed Amersi takes reputation into his own hands

ParisBousquet de Florian and Sellal at Revue des Deux Mondes gala

Washington/SofiaLobbyist running for Bulgarian refinery builds network in Sofia

Shestakov trial set to begin amid friction over classified documents

Sergey Shestakov is asking the American government to produce records from several intelligence agencies that the former Soviet diplomat believes will help his defence.

Social Links forced to plug leaks from users of its intelligence tool

The sale on the dark web of an access to the police and intelligence service-only version of Social Links' OSINT CrimeWall has revived fears of a proliferation of cyber tools. The company states it is taking the necessary steps to block access to the compromised account.