Security Service

Ukraine
Secretive D-2 unit at heart of anti-corruption agency storm

The alleged espionage affair that is turning into a political crisis in Kyiv has its epicentre in the so-called D-2 unit of the NABU anti-corruption bureau. This highly secretive outfit conducts investigations into Ukraine's most politically sensitive cases.

The Intelligence Gazette
French magistrate in Beijing, Laotian spy students in Hanoi, DHS seeks counterterrorism chief, Armenian SNB's new head, Bastille day in Moscow

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

FranceLiaison magistrate returns to Beijing embassy

Vietnam/LaosDG2 training Laotian spy students

United StatesDHS counterterrorism chief joins private sector

ArmeniaInternal security deputy promoted to service head

RussiaA special guest at the French Embassy's 14 July celebrations

Azerbaijan, France
French interior ministry's barrage of unsigned memos about former Azerbaijani intelligence collaborator

French justice remains bogged down in the complex case of an Azerbaijani national who claims to have been recruited by the domestic intelligence service in Baku. No fewer than four "notes blanches" unsigned memos were deployed to uphold a ban on him staying in France.

The Intelligence Gazette
Sisse, Brookings Institution, Viginum, Chairman Mao revival

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

FranceNew SISSE director a man of many means

United States Brookings Institution hires Kamala Harris's former adviser

FranceDigital watchdog Viginum launches information manipulation academy

ChinaGuoanbu behind Chairman Mao revival

Pakistan, Russia
The Karachi-based firm serving Russia's most strategic interests in Pakistan

Moscow continues to court Islamabad, despite Pakistan's role as a supplier of military equipment to Kyiv. A discreet Karachi-based company serves as the hub for Russia in the private security, defence, steel and nuclear sectors.

The Intelligence Gazette
A trade expert to back Rubio, brain drain at Campus Cyber, Moscow helping Beijing, new intelligence journal

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

United StatesState Department hires economy expert as trade war escalates

FranceExecs leave Campus Cyber as it awaits new head

China/RussiaMoscow spreads Chinese Communist Party's word in the Pacific

FranceCNAM university and Mareuil éditions launch intelligence review