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Beihang University, which specialises in aeronautics and works closely with the Chinese defence industry, is increasingly targeting French academia. Intelligence Online reveals its latest incursions into France – moves the DGSI is monitoring closely.
Turkey’s TAIS Shipyards is prospecting Royal Thai Navy plans to acquire four frigates. Its local partner in Thailand has stronger links with the army than the navy, however.
Fledgling vulnerability research firm Epsilon, a new venture by the co-founder of Israeli cyberoffensive specialist Bindecy, is seeking out new talent in Paris.
The French Senate’s law commission has passed an amendment to simplify the sharing of criminal intelligence gathered by the major ‘first circle’ services with others.
After bringing in London-based corporate intelligence firm Raedas to investigate his ex-associates, a former partner in a cryptocurrency mining company is running a website to air his version of their dispute. Consulting firm Highgate set up the site.
Lagging behind in its use of open source intelligence reporting, the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence office has set up a new dedicated division in a bid to better use the technique to collect and analyse domestic security threats.
In a case that lasted a decade, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on 16 January that journalists’ and lawyers’ challenges to French intelligence-gathering techniques were inadmissible. While the ruling dealt a hard blow to the plaintiffs, it is a victory for the intelligence services which are now free to look ahead to the next national intelligence strategy.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s right-hand man heads operations against some armed factions in Jenin, and hopes to make sufficient gains in the West Bank to convince Tel Aviv and Washington to entrust him with the future leadership of Gaza.
Faced with an increasingly intense interference campaign from China, Taipei’s most prestigious research centre is keeping a low profile in hope of preserving what it can of its independence.
Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.
Emirati property mogul Hussain Sajwani received a stream of American tech executives and financiers prior to his announcement, in early January, shortly before Donald Trump’s inauguration, of a $20bn investment in the United States.
In an attempt to make up for lost time, France is showing its goodwill to Indonesia to ensure that its current defence contracts and prospects are kept safe.
Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online visits Em Sherif Sea Café in Abu Dhabi, the after-work hangout of Sheik Tahnoon’s senior advisers.
After Sberbank Switzerland, discreet US investor Stephen Lynch is now planning to buy the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Intelligence Online has obtained internal correspondence between the buyers of Yukos, in which Stephen Lynch played a central role over the past two decades.
Mohammed bin Tahnoon al-Nahyan is rising through the security ranks after being appointed director general of Abu Dhabi police. The heir of a former key adviser to Sheikh Zayed, he also heads a business empire rich in strategic contracts.
To compete with the Swedish Gripen and the American F-16, Seoul is relying on Thai government heavyweight Phumtham Wechayachai to help sell its FA-50 fighter aircraft to Thailand. The minister has run into opposition, however, from Royal Thai Air Force top brass.
Daniel Zairi has worked to smooth over Walter Soriano’s online biography, while a supposed author of the same name generates interest online.
The overhaul comes after the bank agreed to a record settlement with the US Department of Justice for money laundering failures.
The security department of water and waste group Suez is still waiting to learn its fate following the resignation of the company’s chief executive in December. An audit of the division had been carried out prior to the announcement of the CEO’s departure.
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Researchers from France’s recently-formed defence AI agency AMIAD have been posting their work online to contribute to scientific research. This is not to the liking of the French military counter-intelligence directorate DRSD which believes sensitive information is being leaked.
Keen to dodge the export ban in force in the country, Ukrainian drone manufacturers are relocating to Poland, with the support of local partners. The resulting brain drain and lost tax revenue is alarming Kyiv.
Organised crime in Dnipro is putting funds extorted from Russia by its Ukrainian cyber scam centres at the service of Kyiv’s army. Intelligence Online investigates the vast organisation, involving thousands of people, operating with complete impunity day and night.
Wagner’s influence strategies in Africa were closely studied by Ukrainian and Polish contingents who recently visited the French Cyber Defence Command.
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Breaking news published on 16/01/25 at 16:05 GMT: In the year leading up to the freshly agreed Gaza ceasefire, France was playing a facilitating role, not least in hosting the negotiating quartet for talks. That enabled Paris to push for discreet amendments to the agreement announced Wednesday night.
China’s model of using tourism, cultural events and investments to forge connections in Taiwan also enables the Ministry of State Security to target recruitable young Taiwanese as it hones its reunification strategy.
The foreign intelligence service headed by Nicolas Lerner is to have a new overarching security boss, following the example of the DGSI domestic intelligence service. The DGSE’s highly secretive DG/P unit, in charge of counter-penetration, was abolished in July.
The French president is due to travel to the Lebanese capital on Friday 17 January with his diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne, who tendered his resignation earlier this week. Macron managed to convince the former French ambassador to Lebanon to make the trip with him.
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