France
French services step up to join organised crime task force

France
French anti-drugs unit overhauls its intelligence unit

France's anti-narcotics agency OFAST, headed by Dimitri Zoulas, has recently overhauled its intelligence unit, Intelligence Online has learned, aiming to draw lessons from a 2022 failed sting operation on one of Europe's biggest drug-traffickers which has dogged the agency ever since.

France
Debate over phone hacking by DGSI raised as results disappoint

The use of phone hacking by the French DGSI domestic security agency is not as successful as hoped, giving weight to those arguing for more regulated access to encrypted communications in the fight against terrorism and organised crime.

France
Mobile data extraction: French startup takes on Israeli leader Cellebrite

French penetration testing specialist Synacktiv has plans to step on the turf of Israeli company Cellebrite, a leader in phone data recovery solutions.

France
Career changes and job diversification under ethical scrutiny at France's DGSI

A recent French interior ministry report shows that ethics are improving at the DGSI domestic intelligence service.

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DGSE and DGSI's workforces, OSINT at the Pentagon, Chinese house arrest rules, SIRASCO seeks deputy

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

FranceDGSE chief reacts to DGSI's growing workforce

United StatesPentagon looks to streamline OSINT contractors

ChinaSupervised house arrest… except in cases of ‘national security'

FranceSIRASCO seeks a number two

France
Finance ministry's Tracfin strengthens its 'R' intelligence division

The anti-money laundering agency's secretive unit has just been joined by an executive from the DGSE foreign intelligence agency, illustrating the growing ties between both services.

France
France to create dedicated criminal intelligence database

France is over the next few weeks to create a dedicated database for criminal intelligence equivalent to the Cristina directory used for counter-intelligence and terrorism cases. The proposal is currently before the interior ministry's legal affairs department.

France
French intelligence and drug trafficking: a patchwork of blurred powers

A French Senate report into drug trafficking points to intelligence weaknesses, including a "conspicuously absent" DGSI and police, gendarme and customs officials who disagree about the role of intelligence.