DIA

Polish diplomatic think-tank carves niche in Washington 

The PISM, close to the Warsaw government, is developing its influence across the Atlantic. Its main targets are security decision-makers and Republican circles in Washington, but it also has Canada in its sights.

Staff sue Louis Vuitton's New York security provider over unpaid overtime 

Global Threat Solutions, the company that handled security for the French luxury giant's exhibition on New York's Madison Avenue, has been accused by a group of its employees of breaching US labour laws. They took the case to court earlier this month.

• TEL AVIV - Dream Security poaches Tenable's product management director

• DUBAI - Kaymera carried by SAT in the UAE

• HERZLIYA - Fischler joins Interionet to lead European sales

• WASHINGTON - GAO confirms Boeing pick for DIA's SITE III programme

Dechert and del Rosso's counterattack against Azima and hackers for hire exposes ENRC's involvement 

Investigator Nick del Rosso, accused of conspiring with a Dechert lawyer to conduct a hacking attack for a Gulf emirate, is launching a legal counteroffensive with the law firm. Against this backdrop, hackers for hire allegedly involved in the affair are having their own stand-off.

• RUSSIA - Kovalchuk clan adds another link to Kremlin spymasters

• IRAQ - INIS helps with Sudani's crackdown on corruption

• UNITED STATES/SAUDI ARABIA - Washington calls for greater intelligence sharing with Gulf Cooperation Council

• CHINA - Beijing relies on reserves to expand PLA

• CHINA - Lu Shaye, ambassador in Paris, in Beijing's good graces

• NORWAY/FRANCE/RUSSIA - Russian defector's story challenged
  

• ISRAEL/JORDAN - Shin Bet director joins Netanyahu on reassurance mission in Amman
  

• UNITED STATES - Intelligence services revise their integration procedures
  

• UNITED STATES - Congress scrutinises DIA's HR management
  

UK's Labour taps into Sally Donnelly's powerful Washington network 

With the UK's Conservative government facing the possibility of a snap general election, Labour's defence teams have got moving in Washington.

Pentagon encouraged to study Beijing's supply lines 

In its annual report, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommends the Defense Department to prepare for the fall-out from a conflict between China and Taiwan.

Long-delayed ruling in assassination and corruption case awaits new Iraqi PM 

Former CIA director David Petraeus, among other retired intelligence and military officials, offered testimony in the case of Wye Oak v. Iraq. Dale Stoffel, the CEO of the US firm Wye Oak, was murdered in the country in December 2004.

Russian spy to participate in UN roundtables on fighting organised crime 

A domestic intelligence officer has joined the Russian delegation taking part in the United Nations working groups on fighting transnational organised crime. The spy will be particularly attentive to regulations and technical assistance solutions for tracking embezzled or corrupt assets.

Pueo supplies intelligence briefings to Pentagon 

Virginia-based strategic intelligence firm Pueo has been re-upped as a supplier of expertise on personnel and buildings security to the US defence department.

Russian asset recovery agency comes into the US's firing line  Free

After several months of suspense, Russia's Deposit Insurance Agency now faces the threat of action by the West against its activities as an administrator of bankrupt banks and recoverer of supposedly misappropriated assets. Its general director has been placed on the US sanctions list.

• ABOU DHABI - GEOINT firm Bayanat appoints COO.
  

• JACKSON - Outcome Security joins First In's cyber portfolio.
  

• COLOGNE/ROME - Leonardo to supply European air security CTI platform.

• WASHINGTON - HawkEye 360 shakes up management.
  

DGSE reform: The DR is dead, long live the DR ! 

The reform of France's external intelligence service, the DGSE, which was published on 16 July, looks to have signed the death warrant of its intelligence department, Direction du Renseignement (DR). Former DR executives remain as influential as ever, however, in the new structure.