Spotlight | France
DGSE reform: The DR is dead, long live the DR !

France
French court to audit SGDSN and Viginum

The Cour des Comptes is planning to carry out an audit of the SGDSN defence and national security secretariat by the end of the year.

The Intelligence Gazette
DGSE economic security changes, William Burns honoured, SVR reunion, Interference at French Assembly, Confucius contributes, SGDSN exit

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

FranceDGSE's economic security appoints new head

United StatesEx-CIA chief William Burns to pick up intelligence gong

RussiaVets of former USSR services celebrate with SVR

FranceForeign interference mobilises National Assembly

ChineConfucius joins the fight against corruption

FranceNew adviser on the horizon at SGDSN

France
DGSE gets its marching orders on gender equality

A decree published on 15 November makes changes in civil service legislation applicable to the French external intelligence service, the DGSE. The service now needs to draw up a plan to ensure that the men and women it employs get equal professional treatment.

France, Iran, Israel
French intelligence missions hone in on Tehran

Two of the DGSE's new mission centres have turned their focus to Iran, following Tehran's public support of Hamas and greater involvement in the Middle East since the current crisis.

France
French intelligence services' spending surges before budget boost

The French government has earmarked more funding for intelligence over the next five years, but France's intelligence services, particularly the DGSE, have already exceeded their 2022 provisional budgets.

France
French DGSE officers become eligible for veteran status

Officers of France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE, who have [...]

France, Singapore
French external intelligence agency wants its South East Asia team in shipshape

Marc P.'s arrival in Singapore after six years serving as head of the DGSE's intelligence department should allow the service to ramp up its action in a highly strategic zone, one that it had largely ignored for years, as China places its pawns in South East Asia.

France
Pascal Chauve poised to head French DGSI's technical department

In the latest cyber upheaval in the French intelligence community's technical world, Pascal Chauve, the head of the administrative interceptions service, is set to take the helm of the DGSI's technical department.

France
French intelligence services foreign cooperation: the government and parliament are planning new laws

It is likely that the France will be condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for its lack of a framework for exchanges with foreign services. It is thus working on legislative changes, without including the control commission in discussions.

France
Here, there and everywhere: National Strategic Review wants intelligence services on all fronts

As the government puts the final touches on the National Strategic Review relating to defence and national security, Intelligence Online has been able to consult the report's latest draft, which gives pride of place to intelligence.

France
Special forces still the perfect incubator of generals

France's special forces continue to churn out as many generals as ever in the latest round of mid-year recruits.

Spotlight | France, United Kingdom, United States
US, UK eagerly welcome French intelligence service reform

A restructuring in July of France's DGSE foreign intelligence service caused great satisfaction in Washington and London, where it had been eagerly awaited.

France
French intelligence blindsided by Mali coup, Elysée wants answers

While the French army faces a UN probe into an airstrike that killed Malian civilians in January, Intelligence Online can reveal that France's intelligence services have been wrapped up in another Malian file for months: their failure to anticipate the coup d'état in Bamako on 18 August 2020.

France
DGSE trio caught up in power struggle

The three-person team in charge of the DGSE is still [...]

France
DGSE outdated management culture scares spies away

While the DGSE is stepping up its communication efforts to recruit new staff, internally, human resources are increasingly under strain. [...]

France
Pimond spruces up DGSE's intelligence department

The reform of the DGSE's intelligence department, which has been prepared in secret over the past few months, was unveiled [...]

France
Marc Pimond

Marc Pimond, who was appointed director of intelligence at the [...]

France
Martin Briens

Martin Briens,Laurent Fabius' deputy chief-of-staff, is poised to become the [...]

France
DGSI develops "Fusion Centers"

Faced with the threat of terrorist attacks on French soil, the country's internal intelligence service is poised to undergo rapid reforms.

Spotlight | United States
DIA chief Stewart grapples with reforms

Caught between the eagle eye of the Senate and a CIA that jealously guards its own turf, General Vincent Steward, who was appointed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in January, is searching for scope to reform the agency.