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United States
Grist Mill Exchange trades in commercially sourced intelligence for the CIA

The consultancy founded by several ex-CIA officers wants to help intelligence agencies solve a challenge: how to tap into commercially sourced data. Already being seen in satellite imagery, this practice is now turning to the collection of Internet user browsing datasets.

Russia, UAE
Russia's Novatek develops offshore ruse to pursue flagship Arctic LNG 2 project

Faced with the withdrawal of France's Technip and Italy's Saipem from its liquefied natural gas project in Siberia, Arctic LNG 2, Russian gas giant Novatek is going through an unknown company in Abu Dhabi. Its aim is to keep procuring the technologies it lacks, but below the radar.

The Intelligence Gazette
Israeli anti-missile system, Turkish-Kazakh cooperation, Macron decorates special forces

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Nur-Sultan.

Israel/GulfRiyadh, Abu Dhabi and Manama eye Tel Aviv's anti-missile shield

Turkey/KazakhstanKazakh and Turkish military intelligence services strengthen rapprochement

FrancePresident Emmanuel Macron and Special Forces' love-in continues

Ireland, United Kingdom
Irish Data Protection Commission beefs up technical investigation capacities with help from private sector

The regulator, which has come under attack for not being tougher with the US tech giants, has teamed with a British forensics expert and four international accounting firms to bolster its investigations.

United States
Buikema-Miller, the journalist turned CIA press secretary

In a career shift that would be unthinkable in many Western countries, Susan Buikema-Miller has gone from asking the questions to answering them as the CIA's new press secretary. She shares this previous career in journalism with her husband, now a legal expert at Amazon.

Spotlight | France
French anti-fake news service Honfleur sets up management team

A new French counter-disinformation service is set to be operational in September. Several obstacles, however, still remain.

Iran
SCADA vendors turn to Telegram, Instagram, to beat US sanctions

With the US tightening its sanctions against Tehran, new distribution channels for industrial equipment that is essential to Iran's oil and nuclear sectors are springing up thanks to social media.

Russia
Fubutech, the Kremlin's little Palantir

The Muscovite start-up is putting its web surveillance algorithms and face recognition technology at the service of the Russian security services.

Egypt, UAE, United States
SnapTrends and Chenega monitor Twitter in Arabic

The monitoring of social networks now extends to the rapidly growing field of Arabic language content.