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The Intelligence Gazette
Markic makes his mark at INTCEN, China expert joins FSR, US diplomacy and cyber, Beijing sole option for EU-China summit

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

BelgiumMarkic makes his mark at INTCEN

FranceFoundation for Strategic Research to study Taiwan's National Security Council

United StatesState Department to beef up cybersecurity amid restructuring

China/EuropeUrsula von der Leyen summoned to Beijing

The Intelligence Gazette
Ex-US intel chief denounces purges, OFAST recruits in Marseille, China boosts Taiwan office, Frontex boss visits Paris

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

United StatesDonald Trump's ex-counter-espionage chief raises alarm over Elon Musk's purges

FranceAnti-drug office recruits in Marseille after agents prosecuted

ChinaTrusted recruits sought for Taiwan Affairs Office

FranceFrontex boss to visit Paris

The Intelligence Gazette
A gift from MI6, Extradition to Russia refused, Vanuatu puts golden passports on hold, Pentagon's secret budget

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

United KingdomMI6 'freebie' fails to convince EU Commission

France/Russia/AzerbaijanNo extradition for former DTX collaborator

VanuatuPM pauses golden passports

United StatesAir Force gets most of Pentagon's classified budget

France
French last ditch bid for influence at EU's new anti-money laundering body

Having failed to be chosen to host the headquarters of the EU's new Anti-Money Laundering Authority or get someone appointed to its board, Paris has put forward a candidate to be the body's executive director.

Europe
EU defence summit: Paris positioning itself on nuclear, AI and space imagery

EU leaders gathered for an extraordinary summit in Brussels yesterday to discuss European rearmament and Ukraine ahead of another meeting in Paris next week of the block's chiefs of staff. France is pushing for a leading role on nuclear power, artificial intelligence and space imagery.

The Tech Times
Balkans cyber development centre budget, MARFORCYBER's cyber trainer, Russian satellite swap

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

ParisFrance allocates €1.69m to western Balkans cyber development centre

Fort MeadeMarines pick out new cyber trainer

MoscowOne radar satellite goes up as another comes down

United Kingdom
Unwitting 'journalist-consultant' caught up in Audere's Maltese healthcare and Conservative concierge probes

Intelligence Online has learned that private investigations group Audere, which was commissioned by Steward Healthcare to investigate Malta's political authorities, subcontracted work to a journalist for years without telling him who had actually ordered it.

Latvia
Latvian intelligence ups security for Western players at anti-disinformation conference

To protect participants at the European anti-disinformation NGO EU DisinfoLab's annual conference just held in Riga, only a few hundred kilometres from the Russian border, Latvia's intelligence service deployed reinforced security measures.

France
Former DGSE intelligence officer joins ex-Avisa Partners' cyber unit

Frédéric Polycarpe has left Eviden to join Matthieu Creux's Forward Global, previously known as Avisa Partners.