Yaël Braun-Pivet

The Agencies' Gazette
DGSE and DGSI's workforces, OSINT at the Pentagon, Chinese house arrest rules, SIRASCO seeks deputy

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

FranceDGSE chief reacts to DGSI's growing workforce

United StatesPentagon looks to streamline OSINT contractors

ChinaSupervised house arrest… except in cases of ‘national security'

FranceSIRASCO seeks a number two

France
Appointments due for France's parliamentary interception controller and intelligence delegation

Nearly five months after the dissolution of France's National Assembly, the appointments of MPs to sit on the National Commission for the Monitoring of Intelligence Techniques and the Parliamentary Intelligence Delegation are due to be made official in the coming days.

France, Middle East
Influence battle between Israel and Gulf nations plays out in Nice

Global Diwan, a French-Middle Eastern business club, has pushed back the date of its second annual forum in Nice, where the mayor, a long-standing friend of the Israeli consulting firm Elnet, has been outspoken in his support of Israel.

France
French parliamentary elections set to shake up intelligence oversight

The expected rise of the far left and far right in next month's French legislative elections looks set to trigger tensions over control of the country's intelligence apparatus.

France
Parliamentary intelligence committee to get slightly more power in new bill

Parliamentary law committee debates on France's intelligence legislation have extended the algorithm to URL adresses and given additional powers to the parliamentary intelligence committee. MPs may yet tweak the legislation on international monitoring.

France
New attempt to prolong life of black boxes

The French government introduced a bill last week containing a [...]

France
French MPs limit powers of new economic security committee

Although many MPs are in favour of it, the creation of a permanent parliamentary economic security committee does not have the unanimous support of LREM MPs, who recently passed an amendment that will prevent it from treading on the toes of the parliamentary intelligence committee.

France
Reform of French committee on intelligence : big ideas, small means

In the wake of publication of its 2017 report on July 18, the French parliamentary delegation on intelligence, the DPR, [...]

France
MPs divided over closer intelligence oversight

Tension is mounting between members of the French parliamentary intelligence committee, the DPR (Delegation Parlementaire au Renseignement), after the bill [...]