Intelligence Bureau

United States
Departement of State's intelligence bureau increases OSINT use to support US diplomacy

The Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research is investing in open source intelligence tools to help the Biden administration's new intelligence declassification and publication strategy.

Pakistan, UAE
Bristol Engineering Service, the Pakistani deep state's Emirati relay

The Dubai-based company led by businessman Majjid Bashir Ahmed serves as one of the Pakistani deep state's offshore tools. It helps connect Islamabad's defence industry with foreign buyers and contributes to the country's stock of foreign military equipment.

The Intelligence Gazette
Rosfinmonitoring, Pakistan's ISI

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

RussiaFinancial intelligence gagged

PakistanInter-Services Intelligence Peshawar network slips up

Pakistan
ISI worries about protecting Chinese investments in troubled Balochistan

With the presence of secessionist factions, the Pakistani Taliban branch and the local affiliate of Islamic State, the province of Balochistan, where China is carrying out a number of major projects, has become increasingly unstable.

Pakistan
Islamabad tries to force Pakistani Talibans back to the border following truce breakdown

Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence believed that it could bring the country's Talibans back into line by organising a truce. Now that the truce has been broken, however, spy chiefs are concentrating on securing Pakistan's border with Afghanistan at the risk of alienating their allies in Kabul.

France, UAE, United Kingdom, United States
17 Arm, Felton, ADIT, ENRC

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to Washington, London and Paris.

Pakistan
Afghan Taliban mediate between their Pakistani counterparts and the government in Islamabad

Faced with a resurgence in the activities of the Taliban Pakistani branch, Tehrik-i-Taliban, the Pakistani intelligence services have opted for dialogue rather than armed repression. They asked the new rulers in Afghanistan to negotiate a truce, which was finally concluded on 9 November.

Spotlight | India, United Kingdom, United States
Aditya Jain follows in the footsteps of cyber privateer Rajat Khare under the watchful eye of Indian intelligence

After having drawn little attention to date, Aditya Jain, who works as a consultant for PWC, has been forced into public view by the North Carolina court handling a computer piracy case brought by former arms transporter Farhad Azima against the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

China, Hong Kong
Hong Kong police still rocky after Choi scandal

The Hong Kong Police Force continues to reshuffle its team, with Frederic Choi Chin-pang, the former head of national security, demoted to director of personnel and training.

Iran, Pakistan, Syria
Pakistani intelligence worries about its returning Shiite fighters, demobilised by Tehran

Iran has pulled some of its troops out of Syria as fighting has almost stopped, and Pakistan is now concerned about returning Liwa Zainebiyoun militiamen, who have fought alongside Damascus since 2013. Islamabad dispatched its intelligence chiefs to Tehran to work out a way forward.

Ukraine
Committee poised to appoint Ukraine's new economic intelligence chief

Anti-corruption chiefs and senior tax officials are vying to head Kyiv's new economic intelligence bureau, the BEB.

United States
Cardillo's ex chief-of-staff launches consulting firm

Daniel Soller, who was Robert Cardillo's chief-of-staff when he headed [...]

United Kingdom
Complaint against Oligarchs favourite trustee

A criminal complaint alleging fraud and forgery of documents against [...]

China
New era for military intelligence

With its extended powers, the brand new Qinqbaoju will play a major role in China's intelligence apparatus, taking away some of the Guoanbu's powers.

India
CBI scares Congress Party securocrats

Orchestrated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the arrest of Air Marshall Shashindra Pal Tyagi, the former chief of [...]

Spotlight | France, India
Paris courts India, eyes defence contracts

During French President François Hollande's visit to India in January, Dassault announced that its contract with the Indian government would be signed within four weeks. But the weeks have passed and no ink is on the page.

China
Climate changes for investigators

Chinese officialdom has taken a dim view of foreign private investigation firms in the past, but Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown has changed the balance of power.

Taiwan
Double agent may have been triple

There could be another dimension to the affair of the [...]