Tracfin

The Agencies' Gazette
Fiscal intelligence unit to start 2025, CICIR welcome in Berlin, Dating app for French officers, NZ archives and Chinese interference

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

FranceFiscal intelligence unit to get cracking in 2025

Germany/ChinaChinese intelligence think tank banned in Paris still welcome in Berlin

FranceNew dating app for French officers, a honeypot den?

New ZealandNZSIS releases archives in face of Chinese espionage and interference

France
The national intelligence coordination agency tackling cross-service human resources issues

Since 2022, the CNRLT has been seeking to standardise recruitment and professional development practices across the intelligence services. One of the unspoken goals is to temper the competition between agencies that has been driving salaries up.

The Agencies' Gazette
War vet club's new PR head, Hanoi's info warfare guru, French intel academy, NRO preps for Congress, EU ready for Republicans

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

France Intelligence services vets club gets new head

Vietnam Information warfare master joins Politburo

France Intelligence academy broadens courses to further circles

Washington NRO adds muscle to Congress liaison office before possible Trump presidency

Washington EU keeps options open with US Republicans

France
French intelligence and drug trafficking: a patchwork of blurred powers

A French Senate report into drug trafficking points to intelligence weaknesses, including a "conspicuously absent" DGSI and police, gendarme and customs officials who disagree about the role of intelligence.

The Agencies' Gazette
Tracfin blacklists chauffeur, ex-MI6 chief speaks to parliament, Ukraine's Alpha sleuths in Paris

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

FranceTracfin says no to debt-ridden chauffeur with a penchant for prostitutes

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee hears from ex-MI6 chief

France/UkraineUkraine's Alpha intelligence experts visit Paris

Russia
More electronic warfare specialists join Russia's military-industrial commission

Electronic warfare industry experts have recently joined the board of Russia's powerful military-industrial commission, as the Kremlin seeks to harmonise production by the sector's leading companies.

The Tech Telegraph
McMahon to NightDragon, Tracfin beefs up tech team, new Russian electronic warfare system heads to front

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

San Francisco McMahon joins cyber-focused fund NightDragon

Paris Tracfin beefs up technical unit

Voronezh Sozvezdie Concern delivers huge SIGINT order to front

The Agencies' Gazette
MbS in London, the UK FARA, Rome between Beijing and Delhi, DGSE ethics

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

Saudi Arabia/UKDate set for MbS London visit

United KingdomBritish FARA not up to scratch

ItalyRome split between ties with China or India

FranceDGSE bolsters ethics

The Agencies' Gazette
No visa waiver for AUKUS, intelligence journal, anti-terrorist cooperation in Kyiv, tax informants

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

BeijingNo visa-free travel to China for AUKUS members

FranceFirst journal on French intelligence makes its debut

UkraineKyiv structures its international anti-terrorist cooperation

FranceTax informants proving profitable