DGSE

Africa, France
DGSE worried as supplier row leaves Chad's spy plane plan in limbo

France's foreign intelligence service is keeping a discreet eye on a snarled programme to modernise the Sahelian country's intelligence and attack aircraft.

France
DGSE takes on economic sovereignty

The French external intelligence agency has opened a mission centre dedicated to economic interests. The new unit will aim to detect economic predation, support French business and help patch over certain failures, at the risk of doubling up on the work of other centres.

The Intelligence Gazette
No visa waiver for AUKUS, intelligence journal, anti-terrorist cooperation in Kyiv, tax informants

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

BeijingNo visa-free travel to China for AUKUS members

FranceFirst journal on French intelligence makes its debut

UkraineKyiv structures its international anti-terrorist cooperation

FranceTax informants proving profitable

France
DGSE gets its marching orders on gender equality

A decree published on 15 November makes changes in civil service legislation applicable to the French external intelligence service, the DGSE. The service now needs to draw up a plan to ensure that the men and women it employs get equal professional treatment.

France
DGSI team to join French interministerial GIC at new office in Paris suburbs

France's Groupement Interministériel de Contrôle, which authorises interceptions by the intelligence services, will house a team from the DGSI at its new site in the Paris suburb of Montrouge.

The Intelligence Gazette
DRSD in Dubai, Kyiv's new deputy minister, SGDSN command, CIA's OSINT

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

UkraineEx-Huawei employee appointed deputy minister for territories reintegration

FranceMajor reshuffle at defence and national security secretariat

United StatesGovernment to have more access to OSINT tools

FranceFrench defence security intelligence directorate on mission in Dubai

France, Iran, Israel
French intelligence missions hone in on Tehran

Two of the DGSE's new mission centres have turned their focus to Iran, following Tehran's public support of Hamas and greater involvement in the Middle East since the current crisis.

France, Kurdistan, Syria
Anti-ISIS fighter contests DGSI surveillance that led to his trial for terrorism

The defence team of a former French soldier of the Kurdish YPG, who fought against the Islamic State in Syria alongside the French special forces, has filed suit against the DGSI, France's domestic intelligence agency, over its surveillance of him that led to his trial for terrorism.

The Intelligence Gazette
USAID, US interference control, French military intelligence, DNI's Asia-focused OSINT, Richard Barlow

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

BelarusWashington appoints new Office of Transition Initiatives representative

United StatesIntelligence keeps watch of foreign funding for universities

FranceDefence intelligence agency to monitor French veterans working for foreign companies

United StatesDirector of National Intelligence's Asia-focused OSINT

United Kingdom/Pakistan/United StatesAnother Richard Barlow in the Pakistani diplomatic sphere

Ukraine
Ukraine seeks structure for its cyber troops

The country's cyberdefence capacities, embryonic when they were launched in 2021, have since evolved with the help of Western allies. Yet now, the Ukrainian government wants more control.

The Intelligence Gazette
China-Italy talks, Polish tank rearmament, DGSI's new HQ, Consensus on intel classification in Congress

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

ItalyGiorgia Meloni closes door on China talks

PolandPiotr Trytek in charge of tank rearmament programme

FranceFirst spade in the ground for DGSI HQs in 2024

United StatesConsensus on intelligence overclassification in Congress underway

Israel
NSO helps buoy ties between Tel Aviv and N'Djamena

The Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group recently won a contract with Chadian intelligence. But it is also eager to maintain links beetween Chad and Mossad.

The Tech Times
Kyiv promotes cyber sharing, Iran deploys Cobra V8 jammer, DGSE after AI data analysis

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

Kyiv RNBO promotes cyber collaboration

Tehran Iran's Revolutionary Guard receives first Cobra V8 SIGINT

Paris DGSE develops AI algorithms on databases

France
French MPs slam special funds budget as miscalculated

There is a recurring theme in the French special funds verification committee's detailed 2021 report: those funds' budgets are systematically underestimated.