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Macron, Starmer and Merz studying surprise Kyiv visit

According to our sources, European leaders Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz are considering visiting Ukraine in the coming days. The trip is seen as a response to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on 9 May and is intended to reassure Ukraine.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 07.05.2025

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron on 27 March 2025 in Paris.

Ukraine
Zelensky's right-hand man comes to Paris to meet Rubio and Witkoff

Intelligence Online can reveal that the Ukrainian presidential office chief, Andriy Yermak, travelled to Paris on Thursday 17 April to meet with two top US administration officials.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 17.04.2025

The head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak.

Spymaster | United Kingdom
'Not an ordinary Special Adviser': Jonathan Powell, the veteran negotiator at the centre of Ukraine ceasefire plan

Arch-strategist Powell has got his wish and been thrust into the heart of peace negotiations. But the UK national security adviser's recent work makes him an ambiguous figure for the Trump administration, the main intermediary in the talks.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 21.03.2025

The Ukrainian President's Chief of Staff, Andriy Yermak (right) and the National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Powell, in Kyiv on 8 March 2025.

Spymaster | United Kingdom
Lord Beamish's quest to revitalise intelligence oversight

The former Labour MP Kevan Jones, known also as Lord Beamish, is the first member of the House of Lords to chair the Intelligence and Security Committee. Like his Tory predecessor at the ISC, he is hoping to boost the resources and independence of the committee.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 07.03.2025

Kevan Jones, aka Lord Beamish, new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC).

Bangladesh, France, United Kingdom
Yunus seeks help in hunt for former government assets while in Davos

Bangladesh's new government is still trying to track down assets belonging to former members of the Sheikh Hasina regime as part of its anti-corruption probe, and has turned to the international community for help in the hunt.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 03.02.2025

Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the government of Bangladesh, speaking during a session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos on 22 January 2025.

France, Ukraine
France runs secret special forces drill in event of deployment to Ukraine

The French special forces conducted a top secret exercise late last year in preparation of a potential intervention in Ukraine. Intelligence Online was able to gather details of the commando units, spy satellites, drone pilots and cyber fighters involved in the manoeuvre, which also showed up areas in which the French military is lacking.

Free access Surveillance & Interception 15.01.2025

France, Lebanon
Emmanuel Macron to travel to Beirut Friday with diplomatic adviser

The French president is due to travel to the Lebanese capital on Friday 17 January with his diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne, who tendered his resignation earlier this week. Macron managed to convince the former French ambassador to Lebanon to make the trip with him.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 15.01.2025

Spotlight | United Kingdom
British corporate intel firm that spurred Russiagate has friends in high parliamentary places

Christopher Steele, a former MI6 spy who co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, is well connected with British members of parliament. So much so that parliamentary debates have reflected several claims made in Orbis reports.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 03.01.2025

The Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London.

United Kingdom
No report from UK parliamentary intelligence committee after another disrupted year

More than four months after the general election, the parliamentary intelligence committee has still not been renewed. This has become a recurring situation, and one that hampers oversight of the UK's intelligence agencies.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 10.12.2024

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States
Five Eyes's US allies jittery but pragmatic ahead of Trump 2.0

Washington's partners in the intelligence alliance had prepared for Donald Trump's return to the White House. The dominant status of the US in Five Eyes and the future president's transactional approach to international relations should now encourage them to increase their own capabilities.

Free access Government Intelligence 27.11.2024

Washington's partners in the Five Eyes alliance had prepared for the possibility of Donald Trump's victory.

United Kingdom
Jonathan Powell's private diplomacy firm Inter-Mediate reorganises after his nomination as national security adviser

Before he takes on his role as Britain's new national security adviser, Powell is making sure to leave his consultancy in good shape. Over the past few months, it has been successfully raising public funds for crisis mediation around the world.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 15.11.2024

Diplomat Jonathan Powell will start his new role as the UK's National Security Adviser on 2 December 2024.

The Intelligence Gazette
London hikes spy budget, Ablyazov case in Senate, Vietnamese spy olympics, CNAM chair open, Guoanbu recommendations for BRICS

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

United KingdomGovernment winds intelligence budget back up

France/KazakhstanSenator Nathalie Goulet reopens oligarch Ablyazov affair

VietnamMilitary intelligence prepares in-house olympic games

FranceRace for criminology chair officially open

China/BRICSGuoanbu favours 12 countries with "partnership" status

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 04.11.2024

United Kingdom
Starmer government runs into intelligence policy stumbling block

Intelligence is proving to be a test for the new Labour prime minister, who boasted during the election campaign that his party would be a champion of national security. He has yet to appoint the members of the committee which oversees the UK's intelligence services.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 22.10.2024

Australia, United Kingdom
Intelligence veteran Eugene Curley steps down from role at CT Group following staff exodus

The withdrawal of establishment figure Curley comes after a steady trickle of departures from its London and Sydney offices.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 25.09.2024

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Transitioning Tories: Former Johnson advisers in demand for investigation and consultancy

With the Conservative Party's influence in Britain's Parliament waning, former advisers to ex-prime minister Boris Johnson are continuing to expand their business networks, in both governance consultancy and business intelligence.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 27.08.2024

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Europe, Israel, United States
Israel at the ICC: both sides flex legal muscles

The legal debate over whether the International Criminal Court should issue arrest warrants for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant has seen an intense influence battle between the pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian camps, each backed by organisations sympathetic to their cause.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 27.08.2024

ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan (centre) requested arrest warrants for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on 20 May 2024.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
London's top private intelligence firms reposition to align with Keir Starmer's new Labour government

While Hakluyt & Company can tap into the networks of its former government staffers and capitalise on its ex-head Varun Chandra's nomination to Downing Street, a much tougher task faces Lynton Crosby's CT Group.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 24.07.2024

Britain's new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
New British government heralds sweeping changes for parliamentary intelligence oversight

The Labour Party will use its large majority in the House of Commons to exert corresponding influence over parliament's intelligence committee in the hope of restoring its influence eroded by years of conflict with Downing Street.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 17.07.2024

The new Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.

United Kingdom
New British defence minister well-acquainted with Jeff Bezos's networks

Sarah Donnelly, a US consultant for Amazon and Blue Origin owned by Jeff Bezos, has ties to the UK's new defence minister John Healey that go back several years.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 15.07.2024

British Secretary of State for Defence John Healey arrives at Downing Street for a cabinet meeting in London, 9 July 2024.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Will new Labour government scrap Tory plans to cut UK intelligence budget?

During his campaign, Keir Starmer depicted Labour as the "party of national security" and pledged to increase the UK defence budget. But he gave no firm indication of whether the outgoing Conservative government's plans to slash the intelligence budget would be upheld or not.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 08.07.2024

Labour leader and incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media as he enters 10 Downing Street following Labour's election victory on 5 July 2024 in London, England.

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

France Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Ukraine Jamming wars

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France Information wars in the Caucasus

Israel Israeli cyber bounces back after NSO woes

Insiders | China Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Keir Starmer

Ukraine Macron, Starmer and Merz studying surprise Kyiv visit

Ukraine Zelensky's right-hand man comes to Paris to meet Rubio and Witkoff

Spymaster | United Kingdom 'Not an ordinary Special Adviser': Jonathan Powell, the veteran negotiator at the centre of Ukraine ceasefire plan

Spymaster | United Kingdom Lord Beamish's quest to revitalise intelligence oversight

Bangladesh, France, United Kingdom Yunus seeks help in hunt for former government assets while in Davos

France, Ukraine France runs secret special forces drill in event of deployment to Ukraine

France, Lebanon Emmanuel Macron to travel to Beirut Friday with diplomatic adviser

Spotlight | United Kingdom British corporate intel firm that spurred Russiagate has friends in high parliamentary places

United Kingdom No report from UK parliamentary intelligence committee after another disrupted year

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States Five Eyes's US allies jittery but pragmatic ahead of Trump 2.0

United Kingdom Jonathan Powell's private diplomacy firm Inter-Mediate reorganises after his nomination as national security adviser

The Intelligence Gazette London hikes spy budget, Ablyazov case in Senate, Vietnamese spy olympics, CNAM chair open, Guoanbu recommendations for BRICS

United KingdomGovernment winds intelligence budget back up

France/KazakhstanSenator Nathalie Goulet reopens oligarch Ablyazov affair

VietnamMilitary intelligence prepares in-house olympic games

FranceRace for criminology chair officially open

China/BRICSGuoanbu favours 12 countries with "partnership" status

United Kingdom Starmer government runs into intelligence policy stumbling block

Australia, United Kingdom Intelligence veteran Eugene Curley steps down from role at CT Group following staff exodus

Spotlight | United Kingdom Transitioning Tories: Former Johnson advisers in demand for investigation and consultancy

Europe, Israel, United States Israel at the ICC: both sides flex legal muscles

Spotlight | United Kingdom London's top private intelligence firms reposition to align with Keir Starmer's new Labour government

Spotlight | United Kingdom New British government heralds sweeping changes for parliamentary intelligence oversight

United Kingdom New British defence minister well-acquainted with Jeff Bezos's networks

Spotlight | United Kingdom Will new Labour government scrap Tory plans to cut UK intelligence budget?

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China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

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Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Ukraine
Jamming wars

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

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Israeli cyber bounces back after NSO woes

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert