Intelligence Academy launches analysis training

• 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 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.