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Access to UK Special Forces, DGSI and criminal records, JIO's new hub, TurkStream under threat and spying on French pilots in China?

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we hone in on London, Paris and Budapest.

United KingdomBen Wallace and the Defence Committee cross swords over parliamentary control of UK Special Forces.

FranceDGSI to have permanent access to criminal records file.

United KingdomThe Joint Intelligence Organisation creates an OSINT "insights hub".

HungaryBudapest scans TurkStream for sabotage risks.

FranceIs DGSE now keeping an eye on ex-Air Force staff abroad following Intelligence Online's revelations?

United Kingdom
UK parliament calls on MI6, MI5 and GCHQ to play role in preventing atrocities

Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and with one eye on developments in the US, Britain's parliamentary International Development Select Committee is calling for the intelligence community to support the Foreign Office's new Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation (OCSM).

Palestine, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
The Preventive Security's concerns in Palestine, US-Ukraine intelligence-sharing under threat, UK Joint Intelligence Organisation appoints new China analyst, pay rises planned for Russian investigators

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online reports on developments great and small in the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Ramallah, Moscow, Washington and London.

Spotlight | France, United Kingdom, United States
US, UK eagerly welcome French intelligence service reform

A restructuring in July of France's DGSE foreign intelligence service caused great satisfaction in Washington and London, where it had been eagerly awaited.

United Kingdom
The fall of Afghanistan: intelligence services were blinded by the Chilcot Inquiry

The British intelligence services were abandoned by their then boss, foreign secretary Dominic Raab, after their incorrect assessment of the Afghan situation, yet the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, continues to defend them. The latter regards that problem as being the result of the severe damage caused by the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraqi intervention, which crippled London's spymasters.

United Kingdom, United States
CIA brings in new London chief of station

The most emblematic of the CIA's overseas stations, London, is getting a new chief. The appointment is of significant importance for both the British and US intelligence communities.

United States
London opens intelligence analysis academy

Despite the Covid-19 crisis, the British intelligence community's new Intelligence Assessment Academy (IAA) is expected to be operational soon. The [...]

United Kingdom
Lord Ricketts chairs franco-british council

Lord Peter Ricketts, the former National Security Adviser (NSA) to [...]

United Kingdom
Defence Intelligence, government's Syria scapegoat

Criticised by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) for its [...]

United Kingdom
Ricketts cultivates Franco-British business entente

Lord Peter Ricketts, the former British ambassador in Paris, is increasingly involved in helping French business in the UK. According [...]

United Kingdom
Westminster leaves Tehran despite team of consultants

The security and logistics firm Westminster Group, which is listed on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), announced the suspension of [...]

United Kingdom
17Arm, new asset recovery heavyweight

Lord Patrick Meade has recruited this moth Pauline Neville-Jones, the former Downing Street advisor on cyber to David Cameron, to [...]

United Kingdom
Former Spymaster joins Credit Agricole

Jon Day, who headed Cabinet Office's Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) [...]

United Kingdom
Former national security advisor joins Lockheed

Peter Ricketts, who was Britain's ambassador to Paris, has left [...]

United Kingdom
Thomas Hurd pools CT resources

Thomas Hurd, who has been appointed head of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, takes over an area in the throes of major restructuring.

United Kingdom
Charles Farr

Charles Farr, the head of Britain's Office for Security and [...]

United Kingdom
Sir Malcolm Rifkind

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the chairman of the parliamentary Intelligence and [...]

United Kingdom
Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips, who served as Britain's ambassador in Afghanistan from [...]

United Kingdom
The ISC

The ISC, the British parliament's Intelligence & Security Committee, which [...]