United Kingdom
Discreet visit by North Korean military envoy goes down badly

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Risk&Co, Inter-Mediate, Thales

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 and London.

ParisLe Floch's arrival helps Risk & Co further accentuate its shift towards cyber.

LondonThales adviser Lord Nick Houghton questions AUKUS in the House of Lords.

LondonGilles de Kerchove begins his reconversion at Inter-Mediate.

North Korea, United States
CIA caught between White House, Intelligence collected and Pyongyang

The White House's strategy on North Korea has the CIA in a tricky position.

Pakistan, United Kingdom
Kaplan follows Silk Route to Pakistan

Billionaire Thomas Kaplan, who is close to Tony Blair's former chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell, is getting into Pakistan's mining industry with the help of local generals and the Chinese.

United Kingdom
Powell hires former soldiers at Inter-Mediate

Recently retired chief of defence staff Nicholas Houghton has joined Inter-Mediate, the private diplomacy firm headed by Jonathan Powell, former [...]

United Kingdom
Powell’s Mozambique mission

Tony Blair’s former chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell, who has emerged as the negotiator of choice for some of the world’s toughest [...]

Myanmar, United Kingdom
Herstmonceux, Powell advise Burma

General Sir David Richards, the former chief of the British armed forces, met representatives of Burma's ruling military junta in [...]