Hamas in Turkey, GPIS in Paris, NATO in Georgia

NATO seeks to consolidate position in Ukraine 

With the war in Ukraine taking up their energy, NATO officials have loudly condemned Russia. While alliance member states are in charge of logistics and the military response to the conflict, NATO is looking to consolidate its long-term position in Kyiv.

• UNITED STATES - CIA's spies experience housing crisis in Langley

• GEORGIA - Government increases oversight of GIS' international dealings
  

• PALESTINE/TURKEY - Hamas still receiving funds from Turkey
  

• FRANCE - DGSE operations department poised to get new chief

Tel Aviv's spymasters slow down reconciliation with Ankara 

Israel and Turkey had been warming to one another, but recent recommendations from Israel's national security council, warning Israelis to avoid travel to Turkey because of Iranian activisim, have put up a roadblock.

• JORDAN/UNITED STATES - Abdullah II puts intelligence at centre of US visit agenda

• UNITED KINGDOM - GCHQ's mystery Manchester accelerator
  

• UKRAINE/UNITED STATES - Washington determined to fill Ukraine's military gaps
  

• UZBEKISTAN - Border guards on alert

• FRANCE - Cybersecurity chief eyes defence procurement role

• UZBEKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN - Tashkent refuses to return Afghan planes to Kabul.

• RUSSIA - Moscow decorates military engineers.

• FRANCE - Marc Burg lures more top spies to his degree course.

• PARIS - Senators call for a law on facial recognition.

• UNITED STATES - DNI tasked again to tackle China's support to Russia.

• EUROPE - Europol, future watchdog of foreign investment in the EU.

Mossad back in Ankara thanks to Israeli-Turkish rapprochement 

Against a background of ongoing regional dialogues, Israel and Turkey have taken up the reconciliation baton and resumed discussions and official visits. This has led their intelligence services, Mossad and MIT, to relaunch their cooperation.

• SAUDI ARABIA/IRAQ - The General Intelligence Presidency reopens talks with the Anbar tribes to try to block Iran.

• FRANCE - Intelligence expert Floran Vadillo is advising French presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo.

• UNITED KINGDOM - Telecommunications surveillance champion Jeremy Wright joins the ISC as it battles for greater powers

• GEORGIA - The National Security Council gets a new chief of staff
  

Ukraine's business community steps up pressure on France to align on Nord Stream 2 sanctions 

Investment opportunities in Ukraine and sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline were on the agenda of a recent Paris gathering of Ukrainian and French politicians, business leaders and consultants.

Pretenders vie for top spy slot 

Meir Dagan is due to step down at the end of this year after 8 years as head of Mossad. Three candidates are in the running to take over.