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BND's new second in command Philipp Wolff provides fast track to Paris

The German foreign intelligence service has placed its former representative in France at the head of its administration, just as Paris and Berlin relations are going through a cold spell. The new BND vice-president has his work cut out for him with a raft of internal issues to deal with. [...]

Published on 21.11.2022 at 07:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Bangladesh, Germany
German Plath Group gains ground in Southeast Asia, starting in Dhaka

Plath Group has already sold systems to the armed forces in Bangladesh and is rapidly expanding in Asia.

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Germany
BND comes under parliamentary scrutiny once again over Afghanistan committee

The parliamentary investigation committee on the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been launched. The work of the external intelligence service will once again be under scrutiny.

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Germany, Iraq
Monarch well placed for contract to audit future new elections in Iraq

With Iraq still without a government, German company Monarch has already been able to carry out a real-life test of its democracy protection service. The privately owned group carried out physical and cyber security audits during the country's last parliamentary elections.

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The Intelligence Gazette
Charles III's spies, Iraqi Mukhabarat mobilised, Confucius Institutes under US pressure, research at GCHQ, German counter-espionage and France's CNRLT

United Kingdom
Charles III, King of Spies

Iraq
Intelligence services suit up ahead of Arba'een pilgrimage

United States/China
Pressure mounts on Confucius institutes

United Kingdom
GCHQ creates a behavioural science research centre to screen hires

Germany
Doubts over counter-terrorism, now counter-espionage

France
New candidate for the CNRLT

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Spy Way of Life | Germany
In Berlin, spies are back and seeking an ideal meeting place

All over the world, spies like to meet in favourite spots where discreet conversations and chance meetings can occur. This week Intelligence Online visits the emblematic Einstein UdL in Berlin, a city where spying is making something of a comeback.

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Einstein café at Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany.

Spymaster | United Kingdom
Sir Jeremy Fleming stress tests GCHQ's return to strategic threat intelligence

The head of the British intelligence, cyber and security agency is embarking on his sixth year and arguably last act at the helm of a reformed GCHQ amid rising strategic threats out of Kyiv and Beijing.

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Spymaster | Germany
Bruno Kahl enters final months as BND chief amid major intelligence revamp

Kahl, who has directed the BND since 2016 but is no longer in tune with his masters, is due to stay in the job for another few months, depending on events in Ukraine. In view of the planned budgets and its internal developments, the BND could quickly establish itself as a European leader.

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Bruno Kahl, President of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

Spotlight | Europe, United States
NSA, GCHQ look to private sector for cyber-offensive firepower

At a time when Washington is in a state of political chaos, the NSA is trying to remodel the US's cyber-offensive doctrine so that it can retaliate to attacks or even carry out preventive attacks, a new approach for which [.

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US and European intelligence service strategists are trying to adapt to cyber-attacks

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