Intelligence Bureau

United States
US military intelligence set to establish financial agreements with strategic partners

The forging of foreign partnerships in intelligence is becoming an ever more important diplomatic tool for the Biden administration. But it will come at a cost for partners.

United States
US State Department scores new point against ODNI in fight against state-sponsored fake news

The US Congress is increasingly pushing the State Department to take the lead in the fight against information manipulation with the creation of a task force to tackle fake news produced by using AI.

Germany
German intelligence agencies feel political pressure during shake-up

Chancellor Olaf Scholz embarrassed Germany's foreign spy service by criticising it over operational failings in a television interview amid administrative chaos at the country's intelligence services.

Spotlight | Europe, United States
Yorktown Systems Group recruits intelligence reinforcements for US forces in Europe

Washington is looking to reinforce its intelligence-gathering capacity in Europe. A number of contractors are helping it to do so, including a firm which has been providing personnel for support teams based at US Army Europe and Africa headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Spotlight | India, Israel
Israel's NSO and Candiru eye new Indian interceptions contract

The Israeli cyberintelligence firm NSO Group is circling a tender with India's Research & Analysis Wing, but Indian officials are reticent to team with the company behind the Pegasus spyware. Candiru, which is close to NSO, would also like a slice of the action.

United States
Departement of State's intelligence bureau increases OSINT use to support US diplomacy

The Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research is investing in open source intelligence tools to help the Biden administration's new intelligence declassification and publication strategy.

Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Bristol Engineering Service, the Pakistani deep state's Emirati relay

The Dubai-based company led by businessman Majjid Bashir Ahmed serves as one of the Pakistani deep state's offshore tools. It helps connect Islamabad's defence industry with foreign buyers and contributes to the country's stock of foreign military equipment.

The Intelligence Gazette
Rosfinmonitoring, Pakistan's ISI

Russia
Financial intelligence gagged

Pakistan
Inter-Services Intelligence Peshawar network slips up

Pakistan
ISI worries about protecting Chinese investments in troubled Balochistan

With the presence of secessionist factions, the Pakistani Taliban branch and the local affiliate of Islamic State, the province of Balochistan, where China is carrying out a number of major projects, has become increasingly unstable.

Pakistan
Islamabad tries to force Pakistani Talibans back to the border following truce breakdown

Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence believed that it could bring the country's Talibans back into line by organising a truce. Now that the truce has been broken, however, spy chiefs are concentrating on securing Pakistan's border with Afghanistan at the risk of alienating their allies in Kabul.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
17 Arm, Felton, ADIT, ENRC

Washington
ENRC on the move in the US.

Paris
Former Dassault adviser Bruno Clermont contracted by ADIT.

London-Dubai
17 Arm loses its lords.

London
City of London police veteran Chris Felton to join private sector.

Pakistan
Afghan Taliban mediate between their Pakistani counterparts and the government in Islamabad

Faced with a resurgence in the activities of the Taliban Pakistani branch, Tehrik-i-Taliban, the Pakistani intelligence services have opted for dialogue rather than armed repression. They asked the new rulers in Afghanistan to negotiate a truce, which was finally concluded on 9 November.

Spotlight | India, United Kingdom, United States
Aditya Jain follows in the footsteps of cyber privateer Rajat Khare under the watchful eye of Indian intelligence

After having drawn little attention to date, Aditya Jain, who works as a consultant for PWC, has been forced into public view by the North Carolina court handling a computer piracy case brought by former arms transporter Farhad Azima against the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

China, Hong Kong
Hong Kong police still rocky after Choi scandal

The Hong Kong Police Force continues to reshuffle its team, with Frederic Choi Chin-pang, the former head of national security, demoted to director of personnel and training.

Iran, Pakistan, Syria
Pakistani intelligence worries about its returning Shiite fighters, demobilised by Tehran

Iran has pulled some of its troops out of Syria as fighting has almost stopped, and Pakistan is now concerned about returning Liwa Zainebiyoun militiamen, who have fought alongside Damascus since 2013. Islamabad dispatched its intelligence chiefs to Tehran to work out a way forward.