SIGINT

UAE
CPX struggles to spearhead UAE's cyberoffensive operations

Supposed to be the UAE's new cyberintelligence flagship, CPX is struggling to make its mark and hold on to contracts because of technological gaps at a time when other parapublic cyber firms are gaining ground.

Russia
Russian financial intelligence service looks to recruit new generation of analysts

As it is gradually pushed out of international financial surveillance organisations, Russia's financial intelligence service Rosfinmonitoring is counting on its connections with local and Central Asian universities to provide new recruits and keep up its foreign partnerships.

The Agencies' Gazette
NATO's top job shortlist, Jordan's National Security Council, Poland's ICS, French comcyber faces Beijing

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

Brussels/Washington Italy's chances fade for NATO top post

Jordan Abdullah II's National Security Council struggles to emerge

Poland Pressure on information and communication systems

France Comcyber remains blind to Beijing's cyber divisions

Middle East, United States
Washington counts on fledgling Negev Forum to drive Middle East security

Keen to see the establishment of a Middle East security organisation, the US is looking to the Negev Forum to fulfill that role, despite the scant progress it has made thus far.

The Agencies' Gazette
MIT spending, DC quiet on pilots in China, Sergey Beseda in good form, Tracfin reform toughens, KGB takes swipe at MI6

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Ankara to Moscow via Paris and London.

TurkeyIraq and Syria operations MIT's biggest expense

France/United StatesUS and UK left France out of loop over China pilot training

Russia/UkraineQuestions of Ukraine intel fail to shake Beseda from FSB

FranceFinance ministry's intelligence reform ramps up a notch

United Kingdom/RussiaRussian author takes swipe at MI6

Spymaster | China
Li Wei, Xi's intelligence gathering champion

General Li Wei, an intelligence specialist who trained in Xinjiang and is close to President Xi Jinping, is using new information sharing and training programmes to turn the People's Liberation Army's Strategic Support Force into a well-oiled intelligence machine.

United States
US counterintelligence in turmoil over internal flaws

With its internecine quarrels, the indictment of a former high-ranking officer and a structure sometimes deemed deficient, even Congress is worried about the state of US counter-espionage. These concerns have been fuelled by seemingly growing attempts at interference by foreign entities, notably those from Russia and China.

France
France's online influence warfare doctrine makes slow progress in face of administrative complexities

Digital information warfare has become a hot topic at the Elysee, but implementing the French government's strategy on the matter is proving complex as the different state departments each jostle for a role.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
BlueVoyant in unfair dismissal spat, two ex-Met chiefs team up, GEOS lands Dushanbe contract

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we go to Delaware, London and Brussels.

Dover, Delaware Cyberfirm BlueVoyant sued by former CCO

London Hogan-Howe teams up with ex-Met man at Intelligent Sanctuary

Brussels GEOS and Red Line land strategic EU contract in Tajikistan

France
Jacques Salognon gets back to work with Wide Int after Deveryware sale

The former chairman of geolocation services provider Deveryware, Salognon is pursuing his cyber intelligence technologies business through his new company Wide Int.

The Agencies' Gazette
Talabani family feud, US cyberguard, Russian nuclear comms, DGSE's secret stash, Tracfin-PNF cooperation, China's vision

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. Today, we head to Sulemaniyah and Beijing, via Washington, Moscow and Paris.

Iraq Talabani cousins revive family feud

United States Intelligence committee inspects National Cyber Guard

Russia The Kremlin's nuclear weapons 'leaks'

France DGSE's secret funds or special funds?

France Public auditor seeks closer cooperation between Tracfin and financial prosecutor

China Beijing eyes Southern states to realise international security vision

The Tech Telegraph
Belgian SIGINT, Luc Majdalani at BlackSky, Tadaweb supported by Nancy Clark in Canada

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each Thursday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

BrusselsBelgian army pursues SIGINT upgrades

DubaiLuc Majdalani takes over BlackSky's business development in Golf

OttawaEx-diplomat Nancy Clark joins European OSINT provider Tadaweb

Russia
Valery Tikhonov, the man behind Kremlin's secret messages

Russia's highly secretive State Courier Service is monitoring a sector that has grown in importance as the Kremlin cracks down on strategic information leaks.

France
Paris relaunches New Caledonian spatial and intelligence hub

A new satellite receiver is to be installed at the Nouméa-La Tontouta air base in New Caledonia, signalling the facility's growing importance in the Indo-Pacific regional power struggle against China.

The Agencies' Gazette
Kovalchuk clan in Kremlin, INIS fights corruption, Washington in Riyadh, Beijing and its reservists, China's model ambassador in Paris

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Moscow to Baghdad, via Washington, Riyadh and Beijing.

RussiaKovalchuk clan adds another link to Kremlin spymasters

IraqINIS helps with Sudani's crackdown on corruption

United States/Saudi ArabiaWashington calls for greater intelligence sharing with Gulf Cooperation Council

ChinaBeijing relies on reserves to expand PLA

ChinaLu Shaye, ambassador in Paris, in Beijing's good graces