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The Agencies' Gazette
Charles III's spies, Iraqi Mukhabarat mobilised, Confucius Institutes under US pressure, research at GCHQ, German counter-espionage and France's CNRLT

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets from the global intelligence community and this week we're heading to Kerbala, Washington, London, Berlin and Paris.

United Kingdom Charles III, King of Spies

Iraq Intelligence services suit up ahead of Arba'een pilgrimage

United States/China Pressure mounts on Confucius institutes

United Kingdom GCHQ creates a behavioural science research centre to screen hires

Germany Doubts over counter-terrorism, now counter-espionage

France New candidate for the CNRLT

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
ADIT, Hockley, the UNDP, new Jordanian-British firm

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both great and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we report from London, New York and Paris.

LondonEmail leak hunter Jake Hockley sets up new company.

United StatesUNDP sets up counter-terrorism and money laundering investigations division.

LondonNew Jordanian-British corporate intelligence company.

FranceADIT holds on to Nouvelle Aquitaine intelligence contract.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
GPW/Schillings, Exiger Diligence, Nardello, Banque de France, Opus Pear Tree

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both great and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to London, New York and Paris.

London Irwin leaves Nardello

Paris Banque de France recruits new security chief

London GPW nabs investigator Waters from Schillings

New York Exiger exodus

London Opus Pear Tree assists gold giant Petropavlovsk

Spotlight
Londongrad divided over use of SLAPPs and GDPR in lawsuits

Private investigators and lawyers representing foreign executives, particularly Russian, East European and Central Asian oligarchs, are bracing themselves for bitter fights over libel and privacy cases.

Spotlight
US, UK eagerly welcome French intelligence service reform

A restructuring in July of France's DGSE foreign intelligence service caused great satisfaction in Washington and London, where it had been eagerly awaited.

Raedas tried to prove conflict of interest in Saudi arbitration case in Paris

The British corporate intelligence firm worked for the Saudi Arabian construction company STCL in an arbitration case brought by the Italian firm PRIDE.

Sastre and Millennium, the twin investigative firms snapping up business in Eastern Europe

Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a web of consultants led by a Hungarian trio with handy connections in London has been picking up new Ukrainian contracts.

Sagard completes stake purchase of ADIT, Chatham House loses Niblett, JS Held poaches from Control Risks, Wychrij leaves Wallbrook, Quinlan, COSA

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 Paris, Kyiv, London and New York.

Anglo-American ISR specialist sets up his own company

Anglo-American ISR specialist Jamie Meighan has set up his own company to assist companies and governments looking to improve their ability to carry out drone intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

Ark Group wins British contract to support Lebanese Armed Forces

Ark Group is taking over the Lebanese Armed Forces National Security Assistance Programme, run for the past ten years by The Risk Advisory Group, amid growing insecurity in the country.

Ateca Consulting boosts cyber services for al-Maktoum royal family

The London-based cyber recruitment and consultancy firm, which is already deeply entrenched in the al-Maktoum empire that rules Dubai, is stepping up its development in the emirate. It is providing the office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed, for which it is the main adviser, with expertise in offensive cybersecurity.

Spotlight
French firm Intersec beats US giant SS8 for Bangladeshi geolocation contract

The French geolocation specialist Intersec has snatched a contract with Bangladesh's answer to the NSA from under the noses of US leader SS8 and British offshoot Creativity Software.

Ex-CIA agent Dan Hoffman joins CT Group in Washington

The Washington office of the intelligence division of political strategists Mark Textor and Lynton Crosby's CT Group has recruited Daniel Hoffman, a media-friendly former CIA officer in Eurasia.

British intelligence revamps in face of extreme right-wing terrorism

Increasingly concerned by the threat of extreme right-wing terrorism, the government has put MI5 on the frontline of its counter efforts. The Intelligence and Security Committee is taking stock of these developments.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
K2's bill, security at Al Ula, International SOS, Caspar-Fille-Lambie, from CRG to EY

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 K2 waits for payment by ExWorks

Paris/Riyadh Al Ula gets a new security consultant

Paris/Brussels/London International SOS take on EU officials' travel security

Paris/London Caspar-Fille-Lambie details his lobbying at Babcock

London Control Risks partner moves to EY

Hakluyt opens up in Canada after the United States and Dubai

Strategic advisory company Hakluyt, which aims to generate revenues of more than $100m this year, is continuing to expand. After opening offices in Washington, San Francisco and Dubai, it is now looking to establish itself in Toronto.