Security

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSI and Palantir, NSA reshuffle, US base in Micronesia, police-gendarmerie friction in France

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

FrancePalantir still banned in some DGSI divisions, despite contract renewal

USQuiet reshuffle at head of NSA's military arm

MicronesiaUS lawyer to oversee talks on Yap base expansion

FranceSDAO's rise irks police

France, North Korea, South Korea
Chemical weapons threat from Pyongyang spurs Paris-Seoul cooperation

Intelligence Online has learnt that a highly confidential exercise was conducted in early March in South Korea, under US leadership, in which a delegation from the French Armed Forces’ Joint CBRN Defence Centre took part.

Afghanistan, China
Beijing makes long-term withdrawal from Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Pakistan: Beijing reshuffles the cards (1/2) – The Ministry of State Security has ordered the immediate withdrawal of Chinese teams and interests from Afghanistan. Rather than a response to recent incidents in Tajikistan, the measure betrays Pakistan's inability to protect Beijing's interests.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
French business association CDSE, French judicial police

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

ParisPrestigious CDSE business association chiefs put pen to paper

ParisSenior police executive goes private

Israel, UAE
Amarante International and International SOS called on to evacuate expats

Evacuation routes for expats and their families were set up as early as Sunday in Dubai and Israel following US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran's response to them. At least two French security firms based in the region have been involved in these operations.

Yemen
Inside the neighbourhood secrets of Houthi intelligence

Intelligence Online has seen confidential documents from the Houthi interior ministry revealing a policing network set up in areas under the group's control and the extent of fears of infiltration by Mossad and CIA moles.

United States
Ex-Blackwater contractor seeks to raise security standards amid financial struggles

US industry standards firm Board of Executive Protection Professionals, owned by a private security veteran who worked for Blackwater and Dubai's royal family, is being sued over allegations that it owes more than $200,000 to a lending firm.

Iran, United States
FBI quietly kept watch on Iranian journalists in Ukraine

Two Iranian media figures close to their government have been in the sights of the US intelligence agency, with one of them having connections to an American who tried to assassinate Donald Trump in 2024.

Europe
EU appoints watchdogs to monitor elections

The European Union's election observation missions (EOMs), one of the EU's few instruments of power, have recently been assigned new service providers, all backed by security companies.