CIA

United States, Uzbekistan
Arnold & Porter help Uzbekistan get closer to Washington

Keen to attract inward investment in its strategic industries, Uzbekistan's government has engaged the services of the law firm's former federal officials.

United Kingdom
Taro Nordheider displays penchant for luxury and corporate intelligence

Hakluyt and Idesus, which is well-connected in Turkey, operate in the rarefied world of wealthy heirs and luxury goods between London and Vienna.

France, Romania, United States
Paris seeks to restore influence in Bucarest, where US has become closer ally

The war in Ukraine has put the spotlight on changing military and security influences in neighbouring countries, whose help is needed. Over the past two decades, French influence has steadily declined in Romania while the US has stepped in and pursued very active security diplomacy in the country.

Kazakhstan, United States
Chevron appoints David Merkel, defender of Kazakhstan's jailed ex-spymaster Massimov

A former State Department official who was close to the Nazarbayev administration, David Merkel has been campaigning for the release of Karim Massimov, who was Chevron's key contact in Kazakhstan.

Germany
US defence industry preps ahead of German contracts rush

Washington's military industrial and diplomatic complex is rallying to make sure it stands a good chance to snap up opportunities created by plans to upgrade the German military.

United States
Beijing, not Moscow, spoils Biden's intelligence nominees

The CIA's future general counsel Kate Heinzelman is in a tight spot over her previous work for Chinese clients at Sidley Austin law firm, the Biden administration's first port of call for future intelligence hires.

The Intelligence Gazette
Mukhabarat in Sinai, Jordan's GID and Ukraine, Wang Yi, France's ANSSI

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

EgyptAbbas Kamel oversees new tribal group fighting against Islamic State in Sinai

JordanAhmed Husni deals with fallout from Amman's position on war in Ukraine

FranceANSSI's threat intelligence department gets new chief

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
RosettiStarr, Farrant, Audere, ICSID/Paris Arbitration Week

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 Washington and London.

WashingtonICSID establishes framework for litigation funding.

LondonAudere's new boss Oliver Blackmore gets into private security.

WashingtonRosettiStar hires Joe Andrews.

LondonFarrant looks to Africa.

UAE, United States
US cyber firm NetAbstraction turns to French consultant Marc Kassis to break into Gulf

NetAbstraction, the US cyber misattribution firm founded by former NSA officer Barbara Hunt, has the Middle East in its sights. It has been putting its best foot forward at the GISEC fair in Dubai with a renewed team and with the help of French cyber business developer Marc Kassis.

Saudi Arabia
PHI Solutions is Riyadh's new cyber offensive champion

Little known PHI Solutions is to take charge of development of the offensive capacities of the Saudi Arabian cyber sector, enabling Mohammed bin Salman to begin a new stage in his cyber security quest. PHI is meant to develop the kingdom's cybernetic capacities, which are still largely handled by foreign contractors.

Spotlight | United States
Amit Forlit latest target in RAK princes' hacking wars

Determined to expose the chain of command that hacked and leaked his emails allegedly under instructions from the Ras Al Khaimah authorities, ex-agent Farhad Azima is now focusing on Amit Forlit, an Israeli corporate intelligence veteran who knows his way round the Indian hackers-for-hire world.

China, Europe, United States
Strider's EU evangelism on tech theft committed by China

Backed by the Koch family and Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Strider, run by former US intelligence specialists on China and already under contract to the Pentagon, is starting to prospect in Europe.

United States
CIA rolls out well-oiled plan on familiar turf in Ukraine

Engrossed in Europe, US intelligence has increased its operations in Ukraine. It has considerable scope of action in the country forged from eight years of building relations with and providing support to its Ukrainian homologues.