France
Special forces still the perfect incubator of generals

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.

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.

Spotlight | Africa, France
Bernard Barbier boosts French bid to get back on top of African cyber sector

Bernard Barbier, a former bigwig in France's DGSE foreign intelligence service, has been promoting French cyber in Ivory Coast, notably on behalf of the former foreign intelligence officers' firms Tehtris and Corexalys.

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

The reform of France's external intelligence service, the DGSE, which was published on 16 July, looks to have signed the death warrant of its intelligence department, Direction du Renseignement (DR). Former DR executives remain as influential as ever, however, in the new structure.

The Intelligence Gazette
CIA, Georgia's GIS, Hamas finance, DGSE operations

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global intelligence community. This week we home in on the US, Georgia, Palestine, Turkey and France.

United StatesCIA's spies experience housing crisis in Langley

GeorgiaGovernment increases oversight of GIS' international dealings

Palestine/TurkeyHamas still receiving funds from Turkey

FranceDGSE operations department poised to get new chief

France
French Army commandos await new chief

The surprise resignation of Eric Vidaud as head of French military intelligence, the DRM, in March is having all sorts of consequences on appointments in the French special forces.