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The Intelligence Gazette
Service Action, US budget, Pro-Orban think-tank, Royal United Services Institute

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

FranceChange of guard at DGSE Cercottes camp

USSharp rise in intelligence budget requests

EuropePro-Orban influence network to condemn 'European propaganda machines' in Brussels

United KingdomBritain's great and good at RUSI international law talk

Italy
Negg wins Italian cyber intelligence contracts after Paragon exposed

Italian cyber intelligence firm Negg is aiming to become the provider of choice for Rome's cyber offensive contracts. The Italian government lost its preferred contractor in the field, Paragon Solutions, after it was publicly exposed earlier this year.

Spotlight | Bulgaria, Israel
Sofia, Israeli cyber specialists' trusted European base

Despite criticism from the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into the Pegasus spyware, NSO Group and other Israeli cyberspecialists continue to obtain export licences through their Bulgarian subsidiaries.

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.

The Intelligence Gazette
New tandem in European Parliament, US bill for Georgia, SISSE boss under fire, bonuses frozen in Beijing

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

EuropeChristophe Gomart reconstitutes his military intelligence tandem in parliament

United StatesBill in support of Georgia mobilises intelligence agencies

FranceSenators grill SISSE economic security agency boss

ChinaOfficials' bonuses frozen in name of ‘common prosperity'

France
Deputy head of DGSE research and operations department ponders quitting

Changes are expected in the French foreign intelligence service's top management team. The general who serves as number two in its research and operations department is preparing to leave.

France
French MPs and Senators come to agreement on foreign malign influence law

MPs and senators in France reached an agreement yesterday on the future legislation on foreign interference that from July 2025 will see a register drawn up of representatives of foreign states.

France, Ukraine
Macron resumes plans for Kyiv visit

Our sources in Kyiv and Paris tell us that French President Emmanuel Macron has renewed plans for a visit to the Ukrainian capital in the very near future.

Armenia, Europe, France
Former NATO secretary-general lobbying for Yerevan

Ex-NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen penned an op-ed in support of Armenia in Le Monde on 4 April, but his article failed to mention that his firm has lobbied for Yerevan since last year.

The Tech Times
Frontex shops for airborne surveillance, Monti Knode joins the Space Force, Variston loses researchers

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

WarsawFrontex invites bids for its airborne surveillance contracts

Colorado SpringsMonti Knode joins Space Delta 6

BarcelonaVariston loses its zero-day researchers

UAE
Mohammed Somar Ajalyaqin, 'the luckiest dentist in Abu Dhabi' and Tahnoon bin Zayed's key adviser

The vice president of International Holding Company, a shining star of Tahnoon bin Zayed's financial galaxy, Mohammed Somar Ajalyaquin very rarely makes a public appearance. Yet, this dentist and music composer is at the heart of a vast reorganisation of Abu Dhabi's most strategic assets, not only when it comes to financial matters.

China
SolarPower Europe helps Chinese industry on the quiet

The largest EU solar lobbyist is concerned about the influx of Chinese solar panels and how that will impact European production capacities. In private, it is equally wary about the risks of a huge decrease in exports from China.