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An academic accolade caught the attention of insiders in European security circles in mid-June, when a research paper highlighting German intelligence's serious flaws received an honourable mention from the jury at a major conference organised by Intelligence College in Europe. [...]

After a search lasting many months, a successor to high-profile media consultant Alain Bauer to head the top criminology chair [...]

The directive has been rolled out across the board since it began circulating earlier this year. According to several sources [...]

France's ADIT has won the most lucrative contract, worth €409,000, to implement the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region’s economic intelligence roadmap.

According to Intelligence Online's sources in Beijing, Spain is proving an attractive country for Chinese investors mainly for security reasons, on top of political and economic considerations. Indeed, back in 2012 a very discreet channel was initiated in this area, [...]

It is a window into history: a video-call, filmed sometime in early 2023. A group of senior officials from the [...]

Intelligence Online understands that Vietnam's top leader, To Lam, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and [...]

France's ANTENJ digital legal investigations techniques agency is looking for a private-sector solution to protect the data collected and stored in the course of investigations conducted by judges, and civilian and military police officers.

The news went unnoticed except in well-informed circles: on 24 July, Beijing added 14 European companies linked to the defence sector to its "export control" list, making any supplies from China subject to complex authorisation procedures. The list contains several [...]

French security and corporate intelligence firm Amarante International, founded by Alexandre Hollander, reached a deal with Sturdy Consultancy Services (SCS), [...]

French MPs Christophe Plassard of the centre-right Horizons party, Charles Rodwell of centrist Ensemble Pour la République and Jean-Louis Thiériot [...]

The most secret department of the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering agency Tracfin is to get a new head. The current boss of the DRLT intelligence and counter-terrorism department, a China expert, is stepping down.

Before a meeting of the "Coalition of the Willing" in Kyiv this Monday, the British Prime Minister Andy Burnham bluntly [...]

The French technical intelligence vessel Dupuy-de-Lôme, operating on behalf of the DRM Directorate of Military Intelligence and the DGSE foreign intelligence agency had a strategically significant encounter in the middle of summer. The event was the talk of the town [...]

Teams of French, British and American combat swimmers spent part of July and early August in the troubled waters of [...]

The advisory mission to Ukraine's internal security forces, known as EUAM Ukraine (European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine), is currently in [...]

Our sources indicate that Taipei's security services had, several weeks in advance, identified the role that the Taiwan issue would [...]

The search for a successor to Emmanuel Macron’s post of strategic adviser has begun, with one candidate in particular well placed to take the role.

The surprise visit to Kyiv by Pro-Trump commentator Laura Loomer last month has drawn attention to the wider network of pro-Ukrainian voices trying to persuade US President Donald Trump to throw his support behind the war effort against Russia. The [...]

The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal on 3 July ordered France's National Council for Private Security Activities (CNAPS) to reinstate [...]