Spotlight | France
France's DGSE thwarts parliamentary bid to impose tighter control over interceptions

France
France's intercepted intelligence data to be centralised by 2027

The French intelligence-gathering techniques watchdog CNCTR has set 2027 as the target for all data collected by intelligence techniques to be centralised and remotely accessible for controls, despite pushback from some agencies.

France
DGSI team to join French interministerial GIC at new office in Paris suburbs

France's Groupement Interministériel de Contrôle, which authorises interceptions by the intelligence services, will house a team from the DGSI at its new site in the Paris suburb of Montrouge.

France
Senate hits gender parity problem over nominations to intelligence oversight commission

Following the French senatorial elections in September, the French Senate has had to renew its representatives on two intelligence service oversight bodies. Yet the Socialist group has hit a gender parity problem over its nominations to one of them.

France
DGSE recruitment drive hampered by security vetting procedures

France's external intelligence service has announced plans to recruit 800 new staff in 2023 but some candidates are being discouraged by its cumbersome recruitment procedures

The Intelligence Gazette
French Senate, Taipei, AUKUS, Houthis

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from France, Taiwan, London and Riyadh.

FranceDGSE monitors battle for chair of French Senate foreign affairs and defence commission

ChinaBeijing ramps up media presence in Taiwan

United KingdomDavid Williams, AUKUS's mainstay in London

IsraelRiyadh eagerly awaits data on the Houthis from Mossad

France
DGSE's sacking of defiant official on internal security grounds overruled in court

A French DGSE staffer sacked after making a private trip to Iran has been reinstated by an administrative court.

France
Intelligence services watchdog taps into Socialist Party networks

To renew his team, the president of the French security services watchdog CNCTR Serge Lasvignes has tapped into the French Socialist Party networks.

Spotlight | Australia, France, Israel, United States
Paris tightens red tape on employees of US, Australian and Israeli embassies

Some embassies in France are questioning the increase in red tape their employees are having to go through amid geopolitical and security tensions.

France
French military planning law: parliament and government go head-to-head over intelligence amendments

A meeting between MPs and senators will take place today in a bid to reach a compromise over the LPM military planning law. Central to the discussions are intelligence checks and arms exports.

France
DPR to mount united front in the French Senate in support of CNCTR

While intelligence controls were left out of debates on the military planning law at France's Assemblée Nationale, senators are now putting the issue firmly back on the agenda.

France, United Kingdom
In London and Paris, intelligence overseers in uproar over government investment security plans

Parliaments in both countries are seeking to control their governments' investment security policies by setting up new parliamentary delegations. These bodies have a direct impact on issues relating to intelligence oversight.