France
Intelligence Academy launches analysis training

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Intelligence Academy seeks director, Abbas Ibrahim's mandate, Moscow's anti-drone battle, CIA's PCRB problem, Bulgarian intelligence

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we look at Moscow, Washington, Paris, Sofia and Beirut.

France Intelligence Academy advertises for new director

Lebanon Berri joins push to extend Ibrahim's mandate

Russia Intelligence at forefront of fight against drones

United States CIA publication review process questioned

Bulgaria Internal security under scrutiny

France
Prison intelligence still seeks role within French intelligence community

France's prison intelligence service, the SNRP, the latest part of the French intelligence community to be restructured, still has shortcomings that leave it sidelined.

France
French intelligence education "cluster" being developed in South of France

A number of intelligence education initiatives have sprung up in the South of France's Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) region, beginnings of an education cluster that will foster synergies between public research and private industry.

France
CEIS to write Gulf report for armed forces ministry

The armed forces ministry recently entrusted a study on power circles in the Gulf to CEIS. The region is of growing interest to the ministry, as it is to the Elysee Palace.

France
French academia embraces intelligence

Long underappreciated by Universities, intelligence studies are becoming a growing focus in the academic courses. Students of intelligence are spoilt for choice in France these days thanks to a recent flurry of new master's degrees taught by senior intelligence veterans and officials.

France
DGSE, DGSI and DRM's hiring of ENA graduates proves tricky

According to our sources, two graduates of France's elite national administration school ENA joined the French internal intelligence service DGSI [...]

France
Five years after intelligence recruitment drive in wake of Paris terror attacks, staffing issues persist

Intelligence services' human resources departments are struggling to retain and integrate large numbers of contractual staff hired in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

United States
London opens intelligence analysis academy

Despite the Covid-19 crisis, the British intelligence community's new Intelligence Assessment Academy (IAA) is expected to be operational soon. The [...]

France
DRM's intelligence campus a more modest affair

Launched with much fanfare in 2017, the intelligence campus established by French military intelligence, the DRM, has been discreetly transformed by general armaments engineer Caroline Gervais.

France
Intelligence Academy to lose its steering committee

The French prime minister's office has been slashing expenditure on advisory boards and the Intelligence Academy's steering committee is poised to be next on the list.

France
Intelligence services struggle to hire staff

Finding suitably qualified new staff continues to be a problem for the intelligence community, the parliamentary intelligence committee has underscored in its latest annual report.