France has various intelligence agencies: An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage (spying), communication interception, cryptoanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. ...
the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux (RG) is the intelligence agency of the French police, directed by the Minister of Interior. It is charged of overlooking gambling activities, criminal activities, and political radicals (far right and far left). It also used to have as mission to overlook French political parties, but officially is not charged of this anymore.
The Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure (DGSE) is the military external intelligence agency, which succeeded to the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) in 1982 (itself preceded by the Direction générale des Études et Recherches (DGER), dependent of the BCRA).
The Direction de la Protection et de la Sécurité de la défense (DSPD) is a military intelligence agency, charged of counter-espionage, struggle against the Mafia, etc. It works with the DST.
The Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) is an intelligence agency of the Minister of Interior, charged of counter-espionage (in particular in economic matters), and, since the end of the Cold War, also of anti-terrorism issues.
The Direction du renseignement militaire (DRM) was created by Socialist Interior Minister Pierre Joxe in 1992, after the Gulf War, to centralize military intelligence information.
The Bureau central de renseignements et d'action (BCRA) was an intelligence agency created during World War II (in 1940).
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The book makes it clear that the SecretServices were loyal to de Gaulle and their coordination of some of the Free French activities in France, against the German occupiers, paved the way for him to become the post-war leader of France.
The secretservices continued to assist de Gaulle in many ways during the post-war struggle against Communism in France.
During this era, the French were also struggling to retain some semblance of control over their overseas colonies.
RFI operates under the auspices and primary budget of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
However, a reporting lifting questions on the Frenchsecretservices responsibilities in the 1995 death of judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti, that had been broadcasted on May 17, 2005, was afterward taken out of RFI's website for unrevealed reasons, maybe due to the intervention of Djibouti's president Ismail Omar Guelleh
One of the largest foreign language serivices is the English Service, aimed mainly at Southern Africa and Kenya, but with programmes for the Middle East and South Asia as well.
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