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Spotlight | Australia, France, Israel, United States
Paris tightens red tape on employees of US, Australian and Israeli embassies

Some embassies in France are questioning the increase in red tape their employees are having to go through amid geopolitical and security tensions.

The Tech Times
Babel Street for ASD, STL Ludwig on French ships, Michael Johns joins JSI, SITENJ's GPS beacons

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each Thursday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

CanberraBabel Street goes deeper into Australian OSINT market

MarseilleSTL Ludwig, German supplier to the French Navy, in spotlight over litigation

WashingtonFormer Secret Service officer Michael Johns joins JSI Group

ParisFrance's agency for judiciary interception pursues integration of GPS trackers in the new national platform

The Intelligence Gazette
MIT spending, DC quiet on pilots in China, Sergey Beseda in good form, Tracfin reform toughens, KGB takes swipe at MI6

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community, from Ankara to Moscow via Paris and London.

TurkeyIraq and Syria operations MIT's biggest expense

France/United StatesUS and UK left France out of loop over China pilot training

Russia/UkraineQuestions of Ukraine intel fail to shake Beseda from FSB

FranceFinance ministry's intelligence reform ramps up a notch

United Kingdom/RussiaRussian author takes swipe at MI6

Switzerland
Cyber financial investigations specialist Cybera strengthens its intelligence team

Young Swiss financial cybercrime specialist Cybera has been bringing in new advisers to strengthen its technical and export capacities.

Russia, Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine expose each other's intelligence agents in their efforts to win propaganda war

The Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services are happy to showcase information about their own activities when they make arrests or score counter-intelligence successes but revealing the identities of the other side's intelligence agents is another well-tried weapon in their propaganda war.

France
Construction-happy DGSE seeks building expert able to go the distance

With plans for its big move to the Vincennes fort in 2028 underway, the French external intelligence agency has begun work on its other sites and is looking for a lasting candidate able to oversee all of these projects, while it acknowledges the difficulty and scale of the task.

Spotlight | United States
Studebaker-Executive Outcomes forge US-South African alliance to rival Russia's Wagner

South African financier Heine van Niekerk and African private military veteran Eeben Barlow are constructing a response to Russian hybrid warfare operators in Africa in partnership with the US firm Studebaker, which employs former Pentagon and CIA officers.

Israel, United States
Israel's D-Fend sacks North America director as its star rises in US

The Israeli anti-drone firm D-Fend Solutions is going all out to distance itself from its former head of North American business, Terry DiVittorio, the former president of NSO's US subsidiary.

United Kingdom, United States
Geollect continues roll with British intelligence and military

The UK's ministry of defence has shown its support in Geollect, a start-up incubated by the GCHQ, with an increasing number of contracts. The latest is a highly-strategic mission to provide a pysops platform for the Royal Navy, recently caught in information warfare in the Black Sea.

Israel
Alma centre offers platform for ex-intelligence agents to express their views

The research centre that relays Israel's anti-Iran rhetoric has picked up on a French political magazine's piece on Hezbollah in France, revealing a network of former intelligence officers who contribute to its reports.