FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
AFRICA / CENTRAL ASIA / MIDDLE EAST Published on 07/09/2016 Ivor Ichikowitz, the worldwide connections of the South African arms magnate
IRAN / UNITED KINGDOM Published on 17/02/2016 Norman Lamont, pillar of the British-Iranian business community
FRANCE 18/10/2017 Battesti exfiltered from China to interior ministry Eric Battesti, a commissioner who used to be with France's [...]
FRANCE 04/10/2017 Presidential CTC welcomes back Chirac's intelligence henchmen France's new National Counter-terrorism Centre, set up on President Emmanuel Macron's orders, is creating a role for Jacques Chirac's intelligence inner circles. [...]
FRANCE 06/09/2017 SCRT command shared between former RG and ex-DST Hugues Bricq , the former chief of staff of Jean-Marc Falcone at the Direction Generale (DGPN), who was appointed to [...]
FRANCE 26/04/2017 DGSI's anti-terrorism department gets legal chief According to our sources, Lucile Rolland has stepped down as the head of the DGSI's anti-terrorism, or "T", department, after [...]
FRANCE 22/03/2017 Generation change in internal intelligence Francoise Bilancini, who was appointed to head the Paris police intelligence service Direction du Renseignement de la Prefecture de Police [...]
FRANCE 08/02/2017 Race on for Bailly’s successor as Paris intelligence chief French intelligence circles are abuzz over who will succeed Rene Bailly, the powerful head of the Paris Police intelligence service, [...]
FRANCE 21/12/2016 Candidates jockey for DGSI job Although the holiday season is looming fast, the French intelligence community remains closely focused on who will replace the DGSI’s outgoing chief Patrick Calvar. [...]
FRANCE 21/12/2016 Frederic Lauze Frederic Lauze, the internal mediator of the French national police [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 07/12/2016 Rivalries persist in internal intelligence The next French president will have an array of key intelligence appointments to make when he comes to office next year, since many of those in place at the DGSI the DGSE and other services are due to retire. It [...]
FRANCE 26/10/2016 Bailly enjoying Squarcini spectacle Rene Bailly, the head of intelligence of the Prefecture de [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 14/01/2015 An operational success, an intelligence failure Two lessons can be learned from the terrorist attacks that rocked Paris last week: while the inter-ministerial crisis centre operated by the interior ministry rose to the occasion, successfully coordinating the operations that neutralised the jihadists, there were flaws in [...]
FRANCE 15/10/2014 DGSI and former RG monitor DOMs The DGSI and the SCRT (Service Central du Renseignement Territorial) [...]
FRANCE 30/07/2014 Helene Pasturel Helene Pasturel, a division commissioner, has been appointed secretary-general of [...]
Spotlight FRANCE 21/05/2014 All change at internal intelligence service Although it might appear that the French internal intelligence has merely adopted yet another new acronym, the creation of the Direction Generale de la Securite Interieure (DGSI) on May 2 represents a shift that is every bit as significant as [...]
FRANCE 10/07/2013 Negotiating the terms of new DGSI Intense discussions are underway to decide what relationship the DGSI will have with the justice ministry. [...]
FRANCE 10/07/2013 EDF's relations with DGSE and DCRI All of France’s multinationals have dealings with the French intelligence services - but they don’t often say it in so many words. [...]
Insiders FRANCE MIDDLE EAST 02/07/2013 Iskandar Safa, deep sea stealth networking Iskandar Safa, who earned his nickname of Sandy during his youth as part of the Lebanese Christian militia, is an export agent who switched successfully to industry but who, in 2013, is still active as a business intermediary. As an industrialist, he reigns over a veritable shipbuilding empire which produces yachts and patrol boats. He has owned Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN) in Cherb [...]
FRANCE 24/04/2013 Pale imitation of the RG Despite the weaknesses in the French government’s general intelligence apparatus, there are no plans to improve it. [...]
FRANCE 24/04/2013 Max Torossian Max Torossian, the 61-year-old division commissioner and former chief of [...]
