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French financial intelligence in major reboot after Tracfin boss ousted

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Head of French anti-money laundering agency's intelligence department to step down

The most secret department of the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering agency Tracfin is to get a new head. The current boss of the DRLT intelligence and counter-terrorism department, a China expert, is stepping down.

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Musical chairs at the ODNI, Tracfin advisers, Ukraine's GUR, Iranian Kurdish forces

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

USTulsi Gabbard expands legal affairs office

FranceAnti-money laundering body seeking legal adviser

UkraineOpsec issue at military intelligence

IranKurdish parties move towards a joint structure

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Finance ministry's Tracfin strengthens its 'R' intelligence division

The anti-money laundering agency's secretive unit has just been joined by an executive from the DGSE foreign intelligence agency, illustrating the growing ties between both services.

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Head of French financial intel checks out Corsica

The head of the French finance ministry's Tracfin anti-money laundering department, Antoine Magnant, recently visited the French island of Corsica.

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Tracfin seeks deputy, CISA cyber experts quit, French intel's paranormal activities, China's fear of invisible threats

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

FranceTracfin seeks second in command

USCISA's exodus of cyber specialists persists

FranceA Corsican civil servant with a penchant for paranormal

ChinaBeijing calls for extreme caution in face of invisible threats

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French last ditch bid for influence at EU's new anti-money laundering body

Having failed to be chosen to host the headquarters of the EU's new Anti-Money Laundering Authority or get someone appointed to its board, Paris has put forward a candidate to be the body's executive director.

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SGDSN summoned, Tracfin musical chairs, bipartisan support for OSINT, GUR in Syria, ex-French intel watchdog chief dies

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

FranceState adviser Claire Legras in running for SGDSN top seat

FranceShort round of musical chairs at Tracfin

United StatesRare bipartisan support for new OSINT subcommittee

SyriaGUR drone operators still helping Damascus

FranceFormer CNCTR head Serge Lasvignes has died

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The national intelligence coordination agency tackling cross-service human resources issues

Since 2022, the CNRLT has been seeking to standardise recruitment and professional development practices across the intelligence services. One of the unspoken goals is to temper the competition between agencies that has been driving salaries up.

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French intelligence and drug trafficking: a patchwork of blurred powers

A French Senate report into drug trafficking points to intelligence weaknesses, including a "conspicuously absent" DGSI and police, gendarme and customs officials who disagree about the role of intelligence.

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Tracfin blacklists chauffeur, ex-MI6 chief speaks to parliament, Ukraine's Alpha sleuths in Paris

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

FranceTracfin says no to debt-ridden chauffeur with a penchant for prostitutes

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee hears from ex-MI6 chief

France/UkraineUkraine's Alpha intelligence experts visit Paris

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DGSE drama, career officer for Leningrad, Italy-China dialogue

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

FranceDGSE, DGSI and DRM reshuffle drama in parliament recounted

RussiaSukhrab Akhmedov firm favourite to head new Leningrad military district

Italy/ChinaAfter Silk Roads exit, time for strategic dialogue

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DGSE takes on economic sovereignty

The French external intelligence agency has opened a mission centre dedicated to economic interests. The new unit will aim to detect economic predation, support French business and help patch over certain failures, at the risk of doubling up on the work of other centres.

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DPR and fiscal intelligence, La France Insoumise and the CNCTR

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

FranceParliamentary intelligence delegation still queries new fiscal intelligence unit

FranceParliament rejects La France Insoumise support of intelligence techniques surveillance unit

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MIT spending, DC quiet on pilots in China, Sergey Beseda in good form, Tracfin reform toughens, KGB takes swipe at MI6

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Ankara to Moscow via Paris and London.

TurkeyIraq and Syria operations MIT's biggest expense

France/United StatesUS and UK left France out of loop over China pilot training

Russia/UkraineQuestions of Ukraine intel fail to shake Beseda from FSB

FranceFinance ministry's intelligence reform ramps up a notch

United Kingdom/RussiaRussian author takes swipe at MI6

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French financial intelligence service Tracfin makes management changes as part of strategic plan

Guillaume Valette-Valla, the head of the French financial intelligence service Tracfin, has been reshuffling management to carry out its strategic plan and to do so ahead of the opening of a second headquarters next year.

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Tracfin's next director to start with a full plate of challenges

Because of its broad scope, the French financial intelligence service Tracfin, if used well, could become a handy intelligence warfare tool. But after Maryvonne Le Brignonen's controversial directorship the unit is facing numerous challenges, both internal and external.

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Tracfin's role in combating predatory foreign investment gets it a seat on the DGSE's joint technical platform

As part of its expanded powers in line with the French government's focus on economic intelligence, Tracfin, the French financial intelligence service, has gained entry to one of French intelligence's holy of holies, the joint technical platform, or PTM.

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Tracfin receives outside help on internal reforms

The internal reform of Tracfin, the French financial intelligence service, is due to be announced by its director Maryvonne Le [...]