While the CIA and other agencies tend to view open source intelligence from a technical perspective, US lawmakers want to set up a new entity dedicated to translating, analysing and publicly disseminating official documents and speeches from states such as China.
An office close to the Chinese president is now responsible for providing research papers to keep him informed on academic developments. In reality, however, the findings anticipate Xi Jinping's line on the issues in question.
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Henry Bolton, whose CV also includes stints as a police constable and army intelligence officer, has launched a company specialising in risk advisory and investigations.
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The US defence services group is recruiting naval intelligence experts to help reactivate a top-secret acoustic intelligence system dating from the Cold War.
The US consulting group has worked across numerous government departments in Riyadh, but its space industry team now finds itself torn by a government dispute over spheres of control.
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