Jacques Langlade de Montgros

France
French military intelligence's ‘scratch team'

Intelligence Online has learned that Jacques Langlade de Montgros, the head of France’s Direction du Renseignement Militaire, has created a unit known as the “scratch team”, based in his department in the Paris suburb of Balard.

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE drama, career officer for Leningrad, Italy-China dialogue

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

FranceDGSE, DGSI and DRM reshuffle drama in parliament recounted

RussiaSukhrab Akhmedov firm favourite to head new Leningrad military district

Italy/ChinaAfter Silk Roads exit, time for strategic dialogue

France
French military intelligence hires CAE to cover ISR missions before Archange

As they wait for project Archange to be operational, the French armed forces have turned to their long-standing provider CAE Aviation to provide a temporary airborne SIGINT solution.

The Agencies' Gazette
Outcry over Ben Givr's national guard plan, civilian lands senior DRM post, Ukraine's SSSCIP finds new partners

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Tel Aviv to Paris, to Kyiv.

IsraelShin Bet opposes National Guard plan

FranceDRM appoints civilian as "platform" chief

UkraineInformation protection service sets up new partnerships

France
French intelligence regroups to better cover war in Ukraine

After being caught out by the start of the conflict, France's intelligence services have since restructured and are taking more decisive action on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But that has come with some serious soul-searching.

The Agencies' Gazette
Hossein Taeb dismissed, DGSE gets Tripoli villa, DRM celebrates 30th anniversary, New narrative in Belarus

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global intelligence community. This week we home in on Iran, France and Belarus.

IranTehran's Pasdaran spymaster on the way out

FranceLuxury villa awaits DGSE chief in Tripoli

FranceEx-directors absent from DRM's 30th anniversary

BelarusNew narrative in security circles towards the West

France
French military counter-espionage service set for a new director

Eric Bucquet is to hand over as head of the defence security intelligence service, the DRSD, this summer and he should be succeeded by Stéphane Dupont, currently in charge of French forces in Djibouti.