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The successor to Russia’s KGB after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian intelligence service FSB has a field of action goes way beyond counterintelligence and includes repression of political opposition, monitoring and control of the media.

France
French nuclear group sacks employee who worked for Russian intelligence

French nuclear fuel cycle specialist Orano, formerly Areva, has sacked a Franco-Russian employee who was refused security clearance after she admitted to having previously worked for Russian domestic intelligence.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 17.02.2025

France, Russia
Baring Vostok case: French banker's battle continues

A former manager of the Russian private equity firm, Philippe Delpal, who was handed a suspended prison sentence in 2019 after being accused of financial fraud, returned to France in 2022 following, it now appears, the involvement of the French president and intelligence services.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 04.02.2025

French banker Philippe Delpal, a senior executive in Russian private equity firm Baring Vostok arrives at a court hearing in Moscow on 14 July, 2021.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
British corporate intel firm that spurred Russiagate has friends in high parliamentary places

Christopher Steele, a former MI6 spy who co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, is well connected with British members of parliament. So much so that parliamentary debates have reflected several claims made in Orbis reports.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 03.01.2025

The Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London.

Russia, South Africa
Moscow courts South Africa's far-right cells

The Kremlin is using a Russian nationalist organisation, the Double-Headed Eagle Society, to woo the rainbow nation's white supremacists in the hope of influencing Pretoria from the wings.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 21.11.2024

Spotlight | Russia
Russian disinformation operation targets Western intelligence officials

The Ralph Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies, a new ghost organisation run by Russian intelligence, claims to expose, among other things, the secrets of CIA officers and US military intelligence officials.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 12.11.2024

The Ralph Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies website appeared online this summer. According to Intelligence Online's sources, it bears the hallmark of the FSB.

Spymaster | Georgia
Positions of ex-MP spymaster duo boosted by connection with Bidzina Ivanishvili

Irakli Beraia was appointed head of internal intelligence in April after almost a decade-long political career he had been building alongside Georgian strong man Bidzina Ivanishvili. National security chief Grigol Liluashvili also owes his career to the oligarch.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 08.11.2024

Right: Grigol Liluashvili, head of the State Security Service of Georgia, and Irakli Beraia, director of the Georgian Intelligence Service. In the background, the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Inside Orbis, part 2: former MI6 employee's intelligence firm also probed Lords' Russia links

Investigating links with Russia's political and security apparatus is an integral part of Orbis's activities. But in addition to the now famous ‘Steele dossier' against Donald Trump, the firm also investigated big names close to ‘Londongrad' in the British parliament's upper house.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 30.10.2024

Europe, Russia
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe draws Chechen separatists' attention

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is setting up a new committee for the ‘democratisation of Russia'. Besides the Russian opposition figures invited to take part, representatives of the Chechen diaspora want to use the platform to push their political agenda.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 29.10.2024

Eerik-Niiles Kross, of Estonia's Reform Party, is to chair a new committee dedicated to the 'democratisation of Russia'.

Azerbaijan, France
Russian request complicates French-Azerbaijani spy skirmish

In the battle between the French and Azerbaijani intelligence services, both sides have detained an individual potentially linked to an agency of the opposing side. Russia's decision to request the extradition of the Azerbaijani individual on attention-grabbing accusations of terrorism has made the situation doubly complicated for the French authorities.

Free access Government Intelligence 24.09.2024

The Paris court of appeal handed down a ruling on 11 September concerning a request for the extradition of an Azerbaijani national from the Russian prosecutor general's office.

France
Emmanuel Macron, Pavel Durov and the DGSE: the secret story of France's failed attempt to turn Telegram founder

Durov's arrest in France last month caused a frenzy of media and diplomatic activity, but aside from the judicial aspect, the full story had, until now, not been revealed. Intelligence Online spoke to sources who have worked on the case, and they outline a failed operation to get him to switch allegiance.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 09.09.2024

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 23 February 2016.

Russia
Summer shake-up underway among FSB spy chiefs

With Russia's FSB old guard of deputy directors being eased out, speculation is rife as to who will succeed spymaster Alexander Bortnikov.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 03.09.2024

The director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov.

Spotlight | Russia, Ukraine
Rail sabotage that hit France has been ongoing in Ukraine for weeks

The rail sabotage that France suffered on the opening day of the Paris Olympic Games has been afflicting Ukraine for several weeks. Surveillance operations, cyber attacks, air strikes and sabotage orchestrated by Russia are undermining its rail network, a vital link between Kyiv and its allies.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 29.07.2024

A railway station and infrastructure destroyed following shelling by Russian forces in Lyman, in the Donetsk region.

The Intelligence Gazette
Sideswipe in French Senate, high representative for Tibet, Russian security council

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

FranceIntelligence watchdog takes swipe at former spy chief

Europe/TibetThe battle for a high representative

RussiaInformation security expert climbs another rung at security council

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 08.07.2024

France, Russia
Moscow arrest of Frenchman slams door on parallel diplomacy

Russia has sent out a double message with the arrest of Laurent Vinatier in Moscow. The Frenchman's detention illustrates worsening relations between Paris and the Kremlin and sparked concern among organisations that use parallel diplomacy to seek peace.

Free access Government Intelligence 07.06.2024

French researcher Laurent Vinatier is escorted by a Russian law enforcement officer before his pre-trial detention hearing in Moscow on 7 June 2024. He was arrested the day before in a café in the Russian capital.

Azerbaijan, France, Switzerland
Opposition infighting plays into hands of intelligence services

To obtain information, the networks keeping track of Azerbaijani opposition leaders in Europe have resorted to exploiting the dissension between them. These activists sometimes accuse each other of working for Moscow or Baku's intelligence services.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 01.05.2024

Russia
Russian military intel posing behind false flags to recruit sleeper agents in France

In anticipation of a possible escalation of its 'hybrid warfare' tactics on European territory, the GU is extending its campaign to recruit sources and destabilisation agents. The service is now targeting French security institutions.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 29.04.2024

United Kingdom
Stuart Leach Associates, bolstered by former Bell Pottinger staff, strengthens its investigations capacities

Recently founded Stuart Leach Associates is building its own investigation capabilities to back up its reputation management and communication work.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 17.04.2024

Spy Way of Life | Russia, Ukraine
Hotel President, the Moscow setting for a Ukrainian hi-tech intelligence op

Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online explores Moscow's Hotel President, where a Ukrainian intelligence informant recently infiltrated a major defence technology trade fair.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 29.03.2024

Moscow's President Hotel was recently the scene of a successful human intelligence operation for the Ukrainian SBU.

The Tech Times
Presight picks Anton Kharitonov, DCI's ISR drones, Falkor and Epieos

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Abu Dhabi Russian OSINT expert heads Presight's intelligence teams

Paris DCI wants to supply ISR drones to MNJTF

Tel Aviv Falkor picks French firm Epieos's OSINT solutions

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 28.03.2024

Spotlight | Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Paris caught up in Armenia's influence battles extending from internet underbelly to streets of Yerevan

Posters criticising France and its ambassador have been popping up in the Armenian capital, an operation that pro-West activists believe Russia is behind. These struggles for influence and disinformation campaigns are slipping out beyond Armenia's borders.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 22.03.2024

Olivier Decottignies, the French ambassador to Armenia, is the target of a disinformation campaign in Yerevan.

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China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France Information wars in the Caucasus

China University reform under the watchful eye of security

China, Europe Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

North Korea, Russia Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

Insiders | China Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

FSB

France French nuclear group sacks employee who worked for Russian intelligence

France, Russia Baring Vostok case: French banker's battle continues

Spotlight | United Kingdom British corporate intel firm that spurred Russiagate has friends in high parliamentary places

Russia, South Africa Moscow courts South Africa's far-right cells

Spotlight | Russia Russian disinformation operation targets Western intelligence officials

Spymaster | Georgia Positions of ex-MP spymaster duo boosted by connection with Bidzina Ivanishvili

Spotlight | United Kingdom Inside Orbis, part 2: former MI6 employee's intelligence firm also probed Lords' Russia links

Europe, Russia Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe draws Chechen separatists' attention

Azerbaijan, France Russian request complicates French-Azerbaijani spy skirmish

France Emmanuel Macron, Pavel Durov and the DGSE: the secret story of France's failed attempt to turn Telegram founder

Russia Summer shake-up underway among FSB spy chiefs

Spotlight | Russia, Ukraine Rail sabotage that hit France has been ongoing in Ukraine for weeks

The Intelligence Gazette Sideswipe in French Senate, high representative for Tibet, Russian security council

FranceIntelligence watchdog takes swipe at former spy chief

Europe/TibetThe battle for a high representative

RussiaInformation security expert climbs another rung at security council

France, Russia Moscow arrest of Frenchman slams door on parallel diplomacy

Azerbaijan, France, Switzerland Opposition infighting plays into hands of intelligence services

Russia Russian military intel posing behind false flags to recruit sleeper agents in France

United Kingdom Stuart Leach Associates, bolstered by former Bell Pottinger staff, strengthens its investigations capacities

Spy Way of Life | Russia, Ukraine Hotel President, the Moscow setting for a Ukrainian hi-tech intelligence op

The Tech Times Presight picks Anton Kharitonov, DCI's ISR drones, Falkor and Epieos

Abu Dhabi Russian OSINT expert heads Presight's intelligence teams

Paris DCI wants to supply ISR drones to MNJTF

Tel Aviv Falkor picks French firm Epieos's OSINT solutions

Spotlight | Armenia, Azerbaijan, France Paris caught up in Armenia's influence battles extending from internet underbelly to streets of Yerevan

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China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

China
University reform under the watchful eye of security

China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

North Korea, Russia
Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

France
French nuclear group sacks employee who worked for Russian intelligence

France, Russia
Baring Vostok case: French banker's battle continues

Spotlight | United Kingdom
British corporate intel firm that spurred Russiagate has friends in high parliamentary places

Russia, South Africa
Moscow courts South Africa's far-right cells

Spotlight | Russia
Russian disinformation operation targets Western intelligence officials

Spymaster | Georgia
Positions of ex-MP spymaster duo boosted by connection with Bidzina Ivanishvili

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Inside Orbis, part 2: former MI6 employee's intelligence firm also probed Lords' Russia links

Europe, Russia
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe draws Chechen separatists' attention

Azerbaijan, France
Russian request complicates French-Azerbaijani spy skirmish

France
Emmanuel Macron, Pavel Durov and the DGSE: the secret story of France's failed attempt to turn Telegram founder

Russia
Summer shake-up underway among FSB spy chiefs

Spotlight | Russia, Ukraine
Rail sabotage that hit France has been ongoing in Ukraine for weeks

The Intelligence Gazette
Sideswipe in French Senate, high representative for Tibet, Russian security council

France, Russia
Moscow arrest of Frenchman slams door on parallel diplomacy

Azerbaijan, France, Switzerland
Opposition infighting plays into hands of intelligence services

Russia
Russian military intel posing behind false flags to recruit sleeper agents in France

United Kingdom
Stuart Leach Associates, bolstered by former Bell Pottinger staff, strengthens its investigations capacities

Spy Way of Life | Russia, Ukraine
Hotel President, the Moscow setting for a Ukrainian hi-tech intelligence op

The Tech Times
Presight picks Anton Kharitonov, DCI's ISR drones, Falkor and Epieos

Spotlight | Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Paris caught up in Armenia's influence battles extending from internet underbelly to streets of Yerevan