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Foreign spies celebrate Bastille Day, French DNRT head honoured, Chinese advisers

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Foreign spies celebrate Bastille Day, French DNRT head honoured, Chinese advisers

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

BelgiumForeign spies enjoy 14 July party in Brussels

FranceAn honour and a new appointment at head of the National Directorate of Territorial Intelligence

ChinaIdeological training courses to prep future strategic advisers abroad

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The Agencies' Gazette Foreign spies celebrate Bastille Day, French DNRT head honoured, Chinese advisers

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

BelgiumForeign spies enjoy 14 July party in Brussels

FranceAn honour and a new appointment at head of the National Directorate of Territorial Intelligence

ChinaIdeological training courses to prep future strategic advisers abroad

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The Agencies' Gazette
Foreign spies celebrate Bastille Day, French DNRT head honoured, Chinese advisers

The Agencies' Gazette
Syria's Paris embassy, Cambodian 'researchers', China's ideology, Interpol

Deep Dive | Belgium, China, European Union
European Commission beefs up security in face of China threat

China, Hungary, Serbia
Beijing's Belt and Road 'militias' to be deployed in Serbia, Hungary and Poland

Deep Dive | China, European Union, France
China's learned European influence network

Deep Dive | China, European Union
From seduction to disdain, EU diplomacy grapples with China

China, Italy
Transnational repression: Rome steps up pressure on Beijing

France, Morocco
French authorities revoke intel officer's security clearance over Rabat links

China, France
Beijing appoints new spymaster in Paris