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CIA World Factbook's comeback, DGSE hopefuls' poor fitness, Vietnam & tax haven talks

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

United StatesCongress wants to revive CIA World Factbook

France‘Catastrophic' average score in DGSE recruitment fitness test

Vietnam/FranceTax havens on agenda for To Lam's Paris trip

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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

Belgium, France, Vietnam
Hanoi uses diplomacy and its 'united front' to tap into Europe's AI and nuclear tech

A growing number of associations of Vietnamese experts abroad, overseen by Hanoi's embassies, reflect the Southeast Asian nation's desire to make the most of its diaspora in strategic sectors such as civil nuclear and AI.

Vietnam
Former French MP meets with Vietnamese tech firm part-owned by ministry of public security

On a tour of Vietnam to promote her autobiography, Stéphanie Do, a French MP between 2017 to 2022 for La République en marche (LREM), the predecessor to Emmanuel Macron's current Renaissance party, stopped off in Da Nang in Vietnam on 18 March for a meeting with Vietnamese technology group FPT senior executives.

France, Israel, Vietnam
French embassy pushing Airbus for new Vietnam spy satellite despite bumpy past

France has renewed hopes of selling an observation satellite to Vietnam, but the new corruption trial in absentia of businesswoman Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan in Hanoi could bring back bad memories.

Vietnam
Vietnam's Vingroup heads into economic influence with management training school

Pham Nhat Vuong, the head of Vingroup, is personally involved in the development of a management training school designed to strengthen Vietnam's sovereignty and economic influence.

Spymaster | Vietnam
Vietnam spymaster Hung banks on military intelligence tech to counter public security rivals

General Pham Ngoc Hung, who heads Vietnamese military intelligence, is navigating a complex political environment while working to provide his country with cutting-edge Earth observation capabilities.