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The Agencies' Gazette
Afghan planes in Tashkent, Russian military engineers decorated, DNI

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, we serve up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we go from Paris to Tashkent, Washington, Brussels and Kabul.

Uzbekistan/AfghanistanTashkent refuses to return Afghan planes to Kabul.

RussiaMoscow decorates military engineers.

FranceMarc Burg lures more top spies to his degree course.

ParisSenators call for a law on facial recognition.

United StatesDNI tasked again to tackle China's support to Russia.

EuropeEuropol, future watchdog of foreign investment in the EU.

How Tashkent spymaster was sacked

Rustam Ionyatov, the feared head of the SNB, Uzbekistan's answer to the KGB, has paid for the vast purge that [...]

SNB wants to keep eye on neighbours

Uzbekistan's intelligence service, the SNB, headed by Rustam Inoyatov, is [...]

Uzbek defence minister visits Paris

Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defence minister, met his Uzbekistan [...]

Spotlight
Cokini caught up in palace intrigue

An affair that has poisoned relations between France and Uzbekistan in the past couple of years is behind the detention in Russia of French consultant Eric Cokini (IOL 705), Intelligence Online can reveal. Cokini was arrested in Moscow on January [.

Intelligence services in family feud

Gulnara Karimova, 41, the glamorous elder daughter of Uzbekistan's 75-year-old President Islam Karimov, has been under mounting pressure in recent [...]

Gulnara Karimova’s business network

Lawyer Biorn Riese, of Mannheimer Swartling, submitted a report to [...]

Afghan withdrawal offers rich pickings

On February 16, French transport minister Thierry Mariana obtained Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s agreement to repatriate by rail hundreds of [...]

Karimov's methods on trial

For the first time, the methods used by Uzbek state enterprises to keep control of the country's main markets will [...]

Secret service and foreign trade

Uzbekistan's deputy prime minister Elior Ganiev, general of the SNB (ex-KGB), also oversees foreign trade

Back in Good Odor - Discreetly

Highly important regarding Afghanistan, where its intelligence agencies are among [...]

U.S. Tip-Toes Back to Base

The American military has won limited access on a case-by-case business to the military base in Termez in Uzbekistan that is being used by the German armed forces.

France Softens Stance

France Softens Stance. Anticipating an easing of European sanctions currently [...]

US-Uzbek Relations a Six-Year Affair

The current U.S. Army presence in Uzbekistan is the offspring of a relationship conducted over a number of years between Washington and Tashkent.

GAFUR RAKHIMOV

Following an article published in Intelligence Newsletter on June 19 (IN 360), and entitled New Uzbek Network in Europe? Gafur [...]

POLITICAL TERRORISM

The trial of Islamic fundamentalists accused of carrying out six [...]