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UNITED STATES/RUSSIA/KYRGYZSTAN |
Moscow and Washington place pawns |
The
Bishkek authorities have authorised the opening of U.S. and Russian
military training centres in Batken and at the Kyzyl-Kiya base in the
south of Kyrgyzstan (IOL 614 ). (...)
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FRANCE |
Police and agencies rue data privacy |
French
police and intelligence agencies are unhappy about security files being
overseen by the country’s data privacy watchdog. (...)
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FRANCE |
Origins of DGSE’s Service Mission |
Jean-Christophe
Notin’s new book “France’s Shadow War in Afghanistan” traces the
history of one of the least-known services of the DGSE. (...)
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LEBANON/FRANCE -
Grandmaison, Raffarin’s shadow. A few days before the former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin visited Beirut (...)
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FRANCE/JAPAN -
The president’s geisha. The Centre Exterieur du Renseignement Francais, a fictitious equivalent of the DGSE, (...)
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RUSSIA/NORTH KOREA -
Mikhail Fradkov, the director of Russia’s external intelligence service Sluzhba Vneshney (...)
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FRANCE -
The DGSE agreed to help Northern Alliance Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to physically (...)
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SERBIA -
Sasa Vukadinovic, the head of the Serbian intelligence service Bezbedosno Informativna (...)
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FRANCE |
The IN crowd |
Crisis
Consulting, Groupe Synergie Globale and AENEAS, three French security
companies with complementary activites, have teamed to form the IN
network. (...)
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UNITED KINGDOM |
Guidepost in the City |
Bart
Schwartz’s corporate intelligence firm Guidepost Solutions, hired by
former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn to build his defence against
attempted rape charges, is poised to open a bureau in London. (...)
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UNITED KINGDOM/SOMALIA |
Ransom business under threat |
The
kidnapping in Mogadiscio on May 24 of six consultants who were there to
hand over a $3.6 million ransom has caused a considerable stir in the
small world of maritime security (IOL 603 , 624 ). (...)
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FRANCE/AFRICA |
Sofrasep contracts up for grabs |
The
liquidation of Marc Julien’s Societe Francaise de Service Protection
(Sofrasep), which provides the security for Air France’s flights to
Africa is attracting interest. (...)
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UNITED KINGDOM |
Rio Tinto hires Martin |
Rio
Tinto, the world’s fourth largest mining company with annual revenues
of $60 billion, has hired Charlie Martin as head of security in Europe,
Africa and the Middle East (EMEA). (...)
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UNITED KINGDOM |
Kroll’s slice of $200 million Ikos divorce |
The
corporate intelligence firm is involved in the high-stakes split
between City hedge funders Elena Ambosiadou and Martin Coward. (...)
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FRANCE -
CEIS, the strategic intelligence company headed by Olivier Darrason, is launching a cycle (...)
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BELGIUM/AFRICA -
Jean-Michel Lavoizard, who had been working for the British corporate intelligence firm (...)
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FRANCE/IRAQ -
Anticip, the private security company headed by Richard Terzan, protected a delegation (...)
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FRANCE -
Why Vitruve filed for bankruptcy. A debt of €130,000 to the Alsace-based company Flying Robots was the final straw that (...)
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FRANCE -
Embassy security could be privatised. At a time when the French parliament’s defence commission is carrying out an inquiry (...)
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UNITED KINGDOM -
Geoff Hoon,Tony Blair’s Secretary of State for Defence from 1999 to 2005, joined the (...)
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FRANCE/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -
Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, met French President Nicolas (...)
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