Thrust into the spotlight in the UK last year over its links with former national security adviser Jonathan Powell, the Grandview Institution think-tank includes several former PLA officers and has hosted many distinguished European guests.
French foreign intelligence officer Yann Vézilier, detained in Mali since last summer, was released from prison on 13 August. Mediation by Moroccan authorities, at the instigation of the deputy director of the DGSE, was crucial in securing his release.
Less than two years after the Albanian prime minister announced the creation of a Bektashi sovereign enclave, the Sufi movement's leaders are laying the groundwork for official status and appointing representatives abroad.
Two high-profile tributes took place in Beijing in the space of 48 hours, first for Jiang Zemin and then for Zhu Rongji. Intelligence Online identified four notable absences among the Party leadership in attendance, starting with that of Hu Jintao.
Following service members' use of apps making their geolocations public, France's DRSD military intelligence agency has issued warnings to the armed forces on a range of issues.
The recent cooling of relations between Washington and Moscow could mark the end of the good graces that Kirill Dmitriev has enjoyed up until now.
Washington is hardening terms it set out in 2023 for the Argentine president. Until now the US had allowed Buenos Aires to trade with China but barred Beijing from Argentinian strategic infrastructure. Eager to reach a new compromise, Javier Milei’s inner circle is preparing a Chinese trip.
American and European agencies have stepped up efforts to monitor money intended for military aid in Ukraine. One measure involves enlisting a former Israeli intelligence official to help track missing funds.
The success of the French company, which has recently opened its new headquarters in the Paris region, owes much to the network of one of its co-founders.
Pro-Trump blogger Laura Loomer, who visited Kyiv last month, has joined a small but influential group of pro-Ukraine Americans seeking to increased Washington's support for Kyiv.
After leaving a trail of unhappy investors in previous business projects, Taiwan-born tech entrepreneur Chao Yi-Long became acquainted with senior officials in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Oman, as well as in his "motherland" Beijing, in the mid-2020s.
A senior security officer at Radio France had his professional licence revoked in 2024 after French intelligence services accused him of having close ties with Chechen "radicalised Islamists". The French administrative court has now ordered the National Council for Private Security Activities to reinstate his licence.
It is extremely rare for intelligence and signals-gathering vessels from opposing nations to cross paths. But such was the case for France's Dupuy-de-Lôme in the straits off Denmark.
Before the ceasefire ended between Iran and the United States, Oman discreetly called on its Western allies to help remove underwater mines from its territorial waters that were laid by Tehran.
The defence ministry has added an anti-communist dimension to the ideological training programme required of military academy graduates, as part of a wider effort to counter Chinese infiltration. That decision came after intelligence services warned of the priorities Xi Jinping was set to establish regarding the Taiwan issue.
The European Union’s support mission for Ukrainian security institutions addresses sensitive issues relating to counter-interference and the fight against hybrid warfare. As such, it is eager to drastically boost its own security.
China last month slapped 'export controls' on 14 European firms. As a result, Germany's Rheinmetall has attracted attention, but not so much the three French companies - one of them linked to Thales, despite the fact that the measure threatens Europe’s strategic and vulnerable supply of next-generation semiconductor materials.
Published on 24/08/26 at 13:55 GMT: During a visit to Kyiv, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham blew the cover on a not-so-secret cooperation between London and Kyiv on MBDA missiles. Paris is also involved in these engineering partnerships to support Ukraine and especially its new national champion, Fire Point.
A company from Bahrain has become a shareholder in French security and corporate intelligence firm Amarante International. The Gulf-based firm will thus join SERIS, while Alexandre Hollander will retain control of Amarante which was founded in 2007.
Chinese projects worth more than €5.3bn have been announced or are under development in the Spanish automotive industry. But the big draws for the CCP are not Spain's labour costs and state subsidies but rather its willingness to deepen police and judicial cooperation.
In remarks made in 2023, Chao Yi-Long, who has been leading negotiations on a tech cluster in Oman, told senior officials he could help bypass restrictions on the hiring of Taiwanese chip manufacturing experts.
The southeast Asian country’s top leader To Lam will be visiting France in early September. A dinner with French leader Emmanuel Macron and talks on space and maritime strategies are on the agenda.
The Intelligence College in Europe, presided this year by Germany, has awarded a research paper highlighting German intelligence’s shortcomings with an honourable mention. Berlin has not objected to this decision, indeed the paper is in line with the country’s ongoing radical intelligence overhaul.
Beijing has imposed stricter discipline on how its administrative, academic and financial sectors communicate ahead of Xi Jinping's US visit. The aim is not to give any clues to Washington, whose analysis relies more than ever on open-source information.
A year after high-profile French media consultant Alain Bauer left the criminology chair at the prestigious Paris-based Cnam university, a highly qualified academic is set to succeed him. Several administrative steps have yet to be completed before she takes on her new role.
At the helm of the SBU since mid-July, Oleksandr Poklad is extending his influence to Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence, helped by his former superior. All this is taking place against the backdrop of a power struggle at the heart of the presidential office.
In April, the intern Claire Zhang was found lurking near the office of NATO's top commander, US Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, as our sister publication La Lettre and its media partners Le Soir, Knack and Follow the Money, can reveal. Since the arrest of the alleged spy in July, further incidents have led Belgian security services to suspect that accomplices both within and outside the Alliance are also involved.
The platform used by the US-led ceasefire coordination centre for Gaza based in southern Israel, is provided by Palantir. But the system's software operators are neither active-duty military personnel nor employed by the US tech firm's founder Alex Karp, instead they belong to a trusted service provider to the intelligence community.
Former anti-corruption chief Wang Qishan reappeared on 17 August at Jiang Zemin’s centennial celebration but his last two protégés were removed from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection just five days later. Intelligence Online understands that an investigation into Wang had already begun in 2022 within the corridors of CICC, the bank he founded.
A German managing director from the European External Action Service (EEAS) is expected to join the European Commission shortly. The move comes amid a power struggle between the two institutions and as the EU's diplomatic arm finds itself in an increasingly delicate position.
A new court ruling has prolonged the existence of the French arms export body, ODAS, which is embroiled in a legal dispute with Riyadh after having secured some of the largest defence contracts with the kingdom.
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