French president Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed to allow Mistral-class amphibious ships to be sold to the Russian Navy. According to Intelligence Online sources at the Elysee Palace, the decision will be announced in March when Dmitri Medevedev visits Paris.
The Communist Party's central committee has formed a unit dedicated to counter-insurrection.
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Federic Veaux will take up his functions as second-in-command of the French domestic intelligence agency DCRI on Jan. 18.
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By turning a Jordanian agent assigned to infiltrate their ranks on behalf of the CIA, Afghanistan's Jihadist have jeopardised U.S.-Jordanian cooperation.
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The Islamic radicals who took refuge in Yemen now see the entire world as their battleground.
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A report published in early January by the official in charge of military intelligence in Afghanistan, major general Michael T. [...]
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Western intelligence services have noted that Chinese mobsters are increasingly active in Africa and that China’s intelligence agencies, notably Guoanbu [...]
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On January 1, Switzerland’s domestic intelligence agency Service d’Analyse et de Prevention (SAP) merged with the country’s foreign agency Service [...]
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The CIA seems to have a fight on its hands [...]
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Omar Suleiman, chief of Egypt's counter-espionage agency (Mukhabarat al Amat) [...]
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Tracfin, the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering unit, may well [...]
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The PIAB is now back at full strength. After picking [...]
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The ASIO, Australia's domestic intelligence agency, has won a AUD [...]
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MI6 and British special forces are taking part in training [...]
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If EADS hasn’t managed to sell its tanker aircraft to [...]
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To put a halt to the fragmentation of French military [...]
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In a speech on December 23, Indian interior minister P. [...]
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The American group Campco, which holds the Uzi franchise in [...]
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Early this week the South Korean army inaugurated its new [...]
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Soon to become a member of the OECD, Israel has espoused the organization's anti-corruption Convention. But that decision could hamstring Israel's defense industry.
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In a bid to undermine Bahrain's prime minister, the crown prince has accused his associates of corruption.
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Intelligence Online understands Russian businessman Michael Cherney, who is fighting for a bigger share of Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal group, called [...]
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The former vice chairman of Kroll, Joseph Rosetti, is the public face of a particularly mysterious financial operation in the [...]
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Speaking on Jan. 7 before Dassault Aviation's works committee, the company's chief executive, Charles Edelstenne, listed the different countries he [...]
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A firm run by a former executive of Kroll Security in Iraq is diversifying into construction work in the war zone.
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The former secretary of the U.S. homeland security department, Michael Chertoff, has thrown his lot in with the British fund Blue Star.
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Set up by former officials of the U.S. Energy Department, [...]
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The firms Pro Check and I-Sec, both of which are [...]
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Following the abortive attack on Northwest Airlines’ Flight 253, the [...]
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Under attack by one of its American stakeholders, the pension [...]
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The Saudi royal family is continuing to invest heavily in [...]
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Hugues Nagy who was deputy director of operations for Geos [...]
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Oxford Analytica is once again seeking a chief executive. Alfred [...]
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KPMG is advising banks owed money by Dubai World, the [...]
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Jami Miscik, president and vice chairman of the consultancy Kissinger [...]
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Securymind, a security engineering concern founded by former naval commando [...]
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Quest, an investigative firm headed by the former chief of [...]
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A court case has identified a number of companies that design systems to control China's Internet, and their links with the Chinese armed forces.
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Olivier Buquen, the head of an inter-ministerial French unit dealing [...]
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John McLaughlin, former number two man at the CIA, has [...]
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John Sawers, who became chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service [...]
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The French group Parrot has launched an application to remotely control tiny unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with an I-Phone.
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