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The Intelligence Gazette
Ex-US intel chief denounces purges, OFAST recruits in Marseille, China boosts Taiwan office, Frontex boss visits Paris

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

United StatesDonald Trump's ex-counter-espionage chief raises alarm over Elon Musk's purges

FranceAnti-drug office recruits in Marseille after agents prosecuted

ChinaTrusted recruits sought for Taiwan Affairs Office

FranceFrontex boss to visit Paris

France
US' Palantir to stay part of French intelligence until end of Macron presidency?

It will be months, perhaps even years, before the OTDH data fusion system at the DGSI, the French domestic intelligence service, is fully operational. US group Palantir therefore looks set to have a presence in the service for some time.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Darroch dines with Audere, Hakluyt, Iremos, ex-Optima

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonKim Darroch dines with Audere

ChicagoEx-CIA officer and former Biden briefer takes seat at Hakluyt

ParisIremos purchase brings ChapsVision closer to Unibail

LondonOptima founder starts new chapter in defence sector

United States
GEOINT leaders turn to exports amid stock market turmoil

Military New Space in the Trump era - part 2: BlackSky, Planet, Satellogic, the surge in GEOINT share prices following Donald Trump's election has come to an abrupt halt. Now more than ever, leading players are relying on export customers (Israel, Japan, Brazil) to recoup their losses.

Australia, China, United States
Chinese PhD students flee United States for Australia

The Chinese Communist Party had already warned its young researchers overseas to find alternatives to the US to pursue their research projects. Since Donald Trump's reelection, that trend has intensified.

United States
NSO Group and Trump-connected lobbying firm part ways

Chartwell Strategy Group had helped the spyware company reach members of Congress, before the two sides terminated their agreement.

The Intelligence Gazette
A trade expert to back Rubio, brain drain at Campus Cyber, Moscow helping Beijing, new intelligence journal

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

United StatesState Department hires economy expert as trade war escalates

FranceExecs leave Campus Cyber as it awaits new head

China/RussiaMoscow spreads Chinese Communist Party's word in the Pacific

FranceCNAM university and Mareuil éditions launch intelligence review

United Kingdom
The changing face of private intelligence, part 1: Final chapter closes on oligarchs' battles

Years of sanctions against Russian oligarchs Petr Aven, Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Fridman and others, all of whom were avid users of British private detectives, along with the death of several prominent Kazakh clients, is forcing London's private intelligence community to rethink its business model.