GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE

CRDF Global champions DoS cyber support for Ukraine 

The US not-for-profit organisation CRDF is continuing in its tradition of helping the US Department of Defense in the post-Soviet states. In Kyiv, it has helped shape and assist a dense network of Ukrainian security players, providing help in key strategic areas.

US Northern Command swots up on Russia's Arctic claims 

The US Department of Defense's combatant command present in the Arctic has met with researchers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory to explore national security applications for their sea ice modelling in the Russia-controlled Northern Sea Route.

• CANADA/CHINA - CSIS at heart of tensions between Ottawa and Beijing

• RUSSIA - Telegram channel close to military intelligence is hiring

• UKRAINE/EUROPE - NATO boosts cooperation with security teams

• TAIWAN - CCP sees ex-police officer Hou Yu-ih as best shot at presidency
  

• IRAQ - Lahur Talabani throws spanner in election plans
  

FBI case of radical Black activists accused of working for Moscow divides US security services 

US members of an alleged spy ring are charged with spreading pro-Moscow propaganda, taking money to organise protests to defend Russia, and even running for public office while being controlled and financed by the FSB.

Seoul's nuclear goals spark intense talks between China and US 

By raising the idea of a new nuclear autonomy strategy, South Korea has forced Washington and Beijing to quietly seek common ground over the issue.

Washington ups the pressure on Five Eyes allies to act on Chinese 'entryism' 

US prosecutors in New York have arrested two men for running a "secret police station" in Manhattan. They are hoping that other countries will follow their example.

NATO 2030 initiative's implications for Paris 

NATO's ambitions, in the event the war in Ukraine worsens, would impose some major changes on France's military logistics apparatus.

Mexican cartels inadvertently come to aid of US Article 702 on interceptions 

The fight against drug trafficking from Mexico, the object of growing attention in Washington, has become a priority for the US intelligence community, as well as providing an argument in favour of extending its powers to intercept US-foreign communications.

• FRANCE/SYRIA - YPG representatives at the French National Assembly

• UKRAINE - Economic security office headless

• KYRGYZSTAN - Ex-spymaster on the rise in diplomatic corps
  

• US - Food security as well as agricultural sovereignty