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The Agencies' Gazette
CIA's HR woes, Hamas and Taliban in Istanbul, Tbilisi's oligarchs, France's DPR, China worries Russia, repatriated Afghans

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 Istanbul, Washington, Paris, Moscow, Kabul and Tbilisi.

United States CIA experimenting to solve HR crisis

Turkey/Palestine/Afghanistan Istanbul hosts Hamas-Taliban rapprochement

Georgia Tbilisi looks into its oligarchs

France DPR still not entitled to know about operations in progress

Russia Moscow's foreign affairs ministry reassesses view of China

Afghanistan/Europe Europe's greater numbers of repatriated Afghans

The Tech Telegraph
EC launches hybrid warfare centre, ICEYE hires Apeldoorn, Plath appoints lobbyists, Carbyne's advisory board slims

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

BrusselsEuropean Commission orders hybrid warfare centre in response to Russian threat

Paris/HelsinkiJeffrey Apeldoorn takes charge of ICEYE public contracts in Europe.

BerlinPlath seeks to influence German defence policy.

New York/Tel-AvivCarbyne's advisory board slims.

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

Israeli warzone consultant takes on peers over US Somalia contract

A lawsuit by Israeli warzone logistics consultant Roy Shaposhnik over one of the US State Department's biggest security contracts is dragging in the sector's biggest players in the Gulf of Aden.

US private investigators home in on ex-president Nazarbayev's brother

A group of US lawyers and consultants are aiming to have OFAC sanctions placed on the former president's younger brother Bolat Nazarbayev, who is already under close watch from the Russian and Kazakh intelligence services.

Allies split over post-war plan for Ukraine

Splits among Ukraine's hesitant Western European allies following the Russian invasion have grown into divisions over the plan for what should happen after the war. There is a growing gulf between Ukraine's expectations and the Western outlook regarding Crimea, relations with Russia and the future of the Moscow regime.

James Glassman coordinates anti-Russian influence campaign for Ukraine oligarch Akhmetov

In a campaign ordered by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov's SCM, documents supplied by DCI Group to the US Department of Justice reveal the extent of efforts deployed by Glassman Entreprises to communicate about Russia's plundering of Ukrainian cereal, steel and minerals.

The Tech Telegraph
MAG lobbies Washington, EU chooses cyber crisis gurus, Grayshift loses cofounder

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

Fairfax/Washington MAG Aerospace lobbyists deploy to Senate

Athens S2 Grupo, Deloitte and Avisa win ENISA crisis-management bid

Atlanta Forensics firm Grayshift loses head of research

Dataflow Security sets up new forensics company in New York

Vulnerabilities reseller Dataflow Security has set up a company called Dataflow Forensics in New York. The new company will be able to draw on the US contacts of Dataflow founder Ofer Cohen, who is close to MAG Logistics boss Stephen Arbib.

Risk Advisory hit by sackings and resignations, but also boasts new hires

A number of important staffers have departed The Risk Advisory Group, and not always under agreeable circumstances. It all began in late 2020 with Goran Maksimovic, who was sacked after sending an email that revealed he had accepted a sweet offer from a competitor.

Spotlight
Legal battle draws hackers-for-hire and private investigators out of the woodwork

The US court battle between Kazakh conglomerate ENRC and lawyer Neil Gerrard is bringing elements of the hack-for-hire operation against former aviation magnate Farhad Azima out into the open. Underway behind the scenes is a Black PR campaign to discredit the body of evidence accumulated against Indian cyberspace hackers, corporate intelligence firms and Western lawyers.

Kazakh opposition conducts Washington influence campaigns before elections

Ahead of Kazakhstan's early presidential election on 20 November, the country's exiled opposition is trying to trigger an investigation and sanctions against the government and several oligarchs through their contacts in Washington, including lobbyist Alex Beckles.

Spire exploits third party data for its Dynamic AIS system

In the wake of its stock market listing, AIS satellite ship monitoring firm Spire has partially lifted the lid on how it obtains data for its Dynamic AIS system.

Pangea Group gauges mood in Israel for US State Department

The US State Department's search for an analytics provider for its embassy in Israel has landed on Pangea Group, an open source intelligence specialist.

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.