Francois Hollande

France
French parliament to bolster nuclear security command

France's little-known specialised command for nuclear security, CoSSeN, which operates closely with domestic intelligence agency DGSI, is to be granted more powers under the new military programming law.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Sanctions race generates new market for investigation and assistance work for oligarchs

Londongrad has gone into a frenzy since the start of the Western riposte to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The entire ecosystem which has grown up around the oligarchs is working to help them escape sanctions and limit the reputational and financial damage they are expected to cause.

The Intelligence Gazette
Saudi GIP, Jeremy Wright, Hidalgo, Georgian National Security Council

Appointments, reforms, issues of concern: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up a miscellany of news items great and small from the global intelligence community. This week, they come from Paris, Saudi Arabia, London and Tbilisi.

Saudi Arabia/IraqThe General Intelligence Presidency reopens talks with the Anbar tribes to try to block Iran.

FranceIntelligence expert Floran Vadillo is advising French presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo.

United KingdomTelecommunications surveillance champion Jeremy Wright joins the ISC as it battles for greater powers

GeorgiaThe National Security Council gets a new chief of staff

France, Lebanon
Civipol supports Beirut in cyber-security

Civipol, the French part-publicly owned consulting firm attached to the interior ministry, is to support the Lebanese intelligence services in [...]

France, Saudi Arabia
Mohammed bin Salman' defence company recruits in Paris

Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and the authority that oversees it, the General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI), are in [...]

France
Thierry Burkhard in running to be Macron's next private chief-of-staff

According to our sources, General Thierry Burkhard has joined the list of candidates to succeed Admiral Bernard Rogel, President Emmanuel [...]

Spotlight | Iran, United States
Wildlife activists spy trial: Tehran opens new front against US

With talk increasingly tough between Washington and its Gulf allies, Tehran has trumped up a spying case against environmentalists who appear to be linked to an Emirati-backed NGO.