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Counterspy heads DGSI economic unit, CIA loses China expert, Spy film prefigured DGSE HQ move, China's 'wolf warriors' return

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

FranceCounter-espionage expert takes charge at DGSI economic security unit

United StatesCIA loses top China expert

FranceFrench 2008 spy film prefigured DGSE's future move to Fort Neuf

China‘Wolf warrior' diplomacy makes a comeback

France, Russia, UAE
Guillaume de Villiers takes luxury property outfit Barnes and security and intelligence firm Oriol to Dubai

Guillaume de Villiers, a veteran of private security and luxury property in Russia, is prospecting in Dubai, a safe haven for wealthy Russians fleeing Moscow and Western sanctions.

France
French Intelligence service dodges compensation claim from former Indian informer

In the absence of a clear, all-purpose legal framework, the intelligence services increasingly find themselves having to fight their former paid informers in court. An Indian informer of the French internal intelligence service has just had his claim thrown out by the French Council of State.

France
New Year Legion d'honneur medals for intelligence figures

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin awarded the Legion d'Honneur to Françoise [...]

France
Dessenne hits Silk Road with Oriol

Arnaud Dessenne, the former president of the private security firm Erys Group, is founding a new firm in the sector, [...]

France
Intelligence veteran leads economic protection at DGSI

Commissioner Arnaud Vieules is making his mark as head of [...]

France
Yellow Vest policeman was former intelligence officer

Nicolas C., a police captain who landed up in the [...]

France
Corexalys hires Pierre-Mayeul Badaire away from Suneris

Having recently resolved a dispute with his former employer Suneris, Pierre-Mayeul Badaire has joined the R&D department of the Paris cyber-intelligence firm that was founded earlier this year.

France
Civipol seeks expert for Ivorian intelligence law

Civipol, the office attached to the French interior ministry, is [...]

France
French internal intelligence plays musical chairs

In the midst of a major rethink about the presence of French internal intelligence on the ground, the quiet summer period has seen a number of shake ups at local field offices.

France
Former SCRT officer mooted to head IGPN

Nathalie Peucelle, the national police comptroller general and deputy chief [...]

France
Former DGSI agents take up residence in sensitive embassies

The new promotion of internal security attaches to French embassies, which was decided last month, will mostly involve the staff [...]

France
Former DGSE people get involved in Olympic preparations

According to our sources, Pierre Lieutaud, the former assistant National [...]

France
Documentary on RG in the works

Olivier Toscer, a former star reporter with the French weekly [...]

France
Joannesse to replace Gayraud at UCLAT

Loic Garnier, the head of the French anti-terrorist unit UCLAT [...]