SVR

The Agencies' Gazette
French spy's daughter and SVR, French combat swimming facilities, Hanoi and French security archives, CCP and rare earths

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

RussiaGeorges Pâques's daughter guest of honour at CIS intelligence vets' reunion

FranceFacility for training combat swimmers in hand-to-hand combat

France/VietnamGeneral Secretary of VCP seeks French security archive access

ChinaCCP wants citizens to whistleblow on unregulated rare earth mining

Germany, Russia
European spy agencies keeping tabs on Russian lawyer in Germany

Several European intelligence services are monitoring the activities of a Russian lawyer who is a familiar face in the ex-GDR and has close ties to an organisation known to act as a front for Russian security agencies.

Russia
SVR management reshuffle

Several senior officials in Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR) have been replaced.

Russia, United States
Sabotage and sanctions: Russian spies back in the spotlight at US Congress

The Kremlin's stepping up of clandestine operations in Europe has not gone unnoticed in Washington. A reassessment of the threat posed by Russian intelligence services and the effectiveness of sanctions is being considered.