United States
Under Trumpist pressure, Homeland Security revamps intelligence experts group

The Intelligence Gazette
French customs intelligence overhaul, Chinese academics under surveillance, Ex-NSC exec in Columbia, China's A330 in Vanuatu

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

FranceCustoms intelligence COO moves on after role axed

ChinaCCP heightens surveillance of Chinese academics abroad

United StatesBiden's deputy national security adviser joins Columbia

Vanuatu/ChinaChinese aid plane used to test Port Vila runway

Spotlight | United States
Ex-CIA political scientist David Shullman appointed as US intel community's chief China analyst

The new National Intelligence Officer for China has a hybrid profile, combining intelligence work and academic research. He also has a background in think tanks of various political hues, a valuable asset in this period of political uncertainty.

France, United States
Washington keeps control of French drone intelligence tools at the Olympics

The French military's Reaper drones that will be flying over the Paris Olympics will remain under the close watch of their US designers, with French technicians not allowed to access to their most sensitive components.

United States
Intelligence community put to task over health security

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the intelligence community has had to beef up its capacity to face another such event with national security implications, health being far from its usual area of expertise. Its latest declassified reports highlight an increased risk of a major health crisis.

United States
Washington widens definition of intelligence to facilitate counternarcotics efforts

US agencies' powers to monitor foreign communications now encompass international drug traffickers and fentanyl producers.

China, Ecuador, Serbia, United States
Intel agencies fret over Chinese migrants arriving in US via strange new routes

More and more Chinese nationals are turning up in countries where they can travel without a visa as a first step in their bid to settle illegally in the United States or in Europe. This is alarming intelligence services in both Washington and Beijing.