Defence

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Masdar's PR, DGSI's former 'Q', back to ADIT, GEOS in Guatemala

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

Abu DhabiPR firm Teneo wins advising contract with UAE's Masdar

ParisDGSI's former "Q" looking for job

ParisAnne-Solène Spido returns to ADIT

Guatemala CityGEOS renews EU security contract

European Union, France
French firm collateral victim of EU probe into Russia's shadow fleet

As the European Union steps up pressure on countries not seen as tough enough on Russia's shadow fleet, a French company has lost an intelligence-gathering contract after Brussels suspended its programme in Cameroon.

United States
US National Intelligence Council seeks new blood

Faced with a decline in its influence, the US intelligence community's most authoritative analytical arm wants to recruit senior staff to focus on President Donald Trump's priority issues.

France
Elite '11e Choc' para regiment veterans' Bagheera association seeks new president

Bagheera, the veterans' association of the French army's elite "11e choc" parachute regiment, which was disbanded after the Algerian war, is to elect a new president in September. This will take place 80 years after the creation of the unit that formed the backbone of the French foreign intelligence service's clandestine branch, the Action Service.

Estonia, France, Latvia, Myanmar
From Myanmar to the Baltic states, French intel tracks former legionnaires working for private firms

Nearly two years after the Burmese fiasco, French intelligence officers are still monitoring networks of former Foreign Legion soldiers working as private security contractors. Investigators recently travelled to Estonia.

Taiwan, United States
Taipei's diplomatic service enlists Forward Global and Javelin Advisors' help in Washington

The US office of the corporate intelligence firm Forward Global signed a contract to provide public affairs and strategic communications services with Taiwan's de facto embassy in Washington, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO).

France, Morocco
French sovereigntist activist barred from applying to DGSI security clearance role

An activist in a French sovereigntist association who applied for a job at France's DGSI intelligence agency requiring "top secret" clearance was rejected following a security investigation. A French court has upheld for the second time a ruling refusing his security clearance application.

France, Spain
Talks with Spanish police spurred ex-French interior minister's controversial remarks about Spain

The former French interior minister Bruno Retailleau, candidate in next year's French presidential election for Les Républicains party which he currently presides, sparked controversy when he stated on French television channel LCI on 20 April that he wanted to “ostracise” Spain from the European Union.