The Intelligence Gazette
Defence intelligence, Eurocorps headed by Pole, US adviser in Tbilisi, and Irsem under investigation

Canada, France
French diplomat Marjorie Vanbaelinghem to land in New Brunswick after Irsem ousting

Marjorie Vanbaelinghem, the former director of the French armed forces think-tank Irsem, is to be appointed consul general in Moncton, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Intelligence Online has learned.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Templar Executives, Zenobia, Michael Lynch

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonTemplar Executives' double loss

London/DubaiZenobia Intelligence takes root in Dubai

London/DubaiUK's Michael Lynch advises Dubai police

The Intelligence Gazette
Darmanin calls off Saudi trip, Kremlin's secret messages, Irsem, Reznikov's future, Universities in Hong Kong

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Paris, Moscow, Kyiv and Hong Kong.

FranceNo trip to Riyadh for interior minister Darmanin

MoscowValeri Tikhonov's new deputy

FranceDefence minister sacks IRSEM director

UkraineFormer defence minister facing uncertain future

Hong KongCP's population target behind researcher recruitment scheme

France
Ministry of Defence think tank descends into crisis

The scientific director of France's Institute for Strategic Research, the IRSEM, Julia Grignon, resigned on 6 October from the Ministry of Defence think tank.

The Intelligence Gazette
FSB in the Black Sea, French cyber labs, Warsaw's spy clinic, US's emotional intel training

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Moscow to Warsaw, and Paris to Washington.

Russia FSB border guards rule over Black Sea coast

France Britanny's new cyber lab

Poland Military intelligence clinic gets new status

United States Emotional intelligence course for elite commandos

China, Ukraine, United States
Washington to foot bill for replacing Chinese CCTV suppliers

At the request of Ukraine's border guards, the US State Department is to finance and select a supplier of video surveillance equipment to be installed on the Russian border. Chinese firms will not be considered as they are now generally excluded from Western systems.

United Kingdom
UK parliament calls on MI6, MI5 and GCHQ to play role in preventing atrocities

Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and with one eye on developments in the US, Britain's parliamentary International Development Select Committee is calling for the intelligence community to support the Foreign Office's new Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation (OCSM).

Europe
NATO sets up its national rotation system in Eastern Europe

The Euro-Atlantic alliance is looking to ensure that movements of advanced forces from different national armies on its eastern flank are automatic and fluid by adopting models which have already proved their worth.

European Union
Securicom

Securicom, the private security firm founded by Peter Bizon and [...]

Europe, United States
NATO AND EUROCORPS FACE OFF

In early December NATO defense ministers gave every sign of welcoming a French-German proposal to put Eurocorps in command of [...]