Richard Moore

United Kingdom
British intelligence services set up internships to attract diversity candidates

The UK's three intelligence services are lagging on workforce representativity and so have launched a joint initiative to offer internships to students from ethnic minorities and disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE's missing bigwig, SIS's white male problem, Beijing's Moscow capital curbs

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

France Glaring no-show at Émié's DGSE leaving do

UK Despite the positive PR, SIS still overly white and male

China/Russia CCP checks Moscow money transfers

United Kingdom
UK's golden spymaster generation exits to private sector

Several senior officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), which oversees the activities of MI6, have recently moved over to the private sector, marking the end of an era in British intelligence.

France, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom, United States
Western intelligence agencies take pride in LGBTQ+ inclusion

The CIA, MI6, BND, Unit 8200, DGSE and others are moving towards greater gender quality and inclusion of LGBTQ+ minorities in the workplace as they vie for new recruits. We report on this new race for inclusion among the Western world's intelligence services.

Russia, Turkey
IIB's Russian spies pour into Ankara

International Investment Bank (IIB), the Russian-controlled development bank that critics have dubbed Putin's Trojan horse, is beginning to occupy a prominent place in Ankara's financing programmes with Western partners.