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UNEASY "POWER-SHARING"

The current period of "power-sharing" between a socialist president at the end of his mandate and a conservative prime minister [...]

Published on 08/06/1994 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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France
PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN OCTOBER?

A draft bill providing for parliamentary oversight of France's intelligence community is expected to be debated in France's National Assembly [...]

Subscribers only 08.04.1999

France
A "JOKER" AT ARMAMENTS BOARD?

Experts associated with France's Centre des Hautes Etudes de l'Armement (CHEAr: Center for Armaments Studies) have come up with a [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 28.01.1999

France
DST TAKES TECHNICAL TACK

Named head of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) in late August, Jean-Jacques Pascal has just undertaken a [...]

Subscribers only 05.02.1998

Spotlight | France
A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

French defence minister Alain Richard had a lot of trouble in recent months in persuading his counter-part at the interior ministry, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, to give him back Philippe Rondot who was serving as diplomatic adviser to the head of France's [.

Subscribers only 20.11.1997

Spotlight | Algeria, France
ALGERIA'S LESSONS FOR FRENCH INTELLIGENCE

Following the killing of seven French monks by Algeria's Armed Islamic Group -- GIA in its French initials -- in May intelligence circles are closely examining what was France's first failure to negotiate the release of hostages since kidnappings of [.

Subscribers only 04.07.1996

France
NEW FUTURE FOR TAIGA - AND L4U

France's Taiga semantic information analysis system has bounced around a lot since it was developed by Thomson-CSF in 1987 and [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 04.07.1996

France
MICHEL LACARRIERE

Michel Lacarriere, the 55-year-old intelligence director at DGSE and inspector-general of the national police force, is being increasingly tipped as [...]

Subscribers only 22.02.1996

France
WHY COL. DILLAIS WAS FIRED

Col. Louis-Pierre Dillais, head of the French defence ministry's "special affairs" office under Francois Leotard and then Charles Millon, was [...]

Subscribers only 31.08.1995

Spotlight | France
CHANGES AT THE TOP IN FRENCH INTELLIGENCE

French intelligence won't suffer any major upheavals following Jacques Chirac's election as president in May. On the other hand, there is every likelihood that changes at the top of the services will occur between now and early September.

Subscribers only 14.06.1995

Spotlight | France, United States
FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE

By demanding in spectacular fashion that the American authorities quickly recall five CIA agents, including the Paris station chief, the French government did nothing so much as underline its own incapacity to come to grips with American spying in France.

Subscribers only 01.03.1995

France
DGSE-DRM AGREEMENT

French defense minister François Léotard last month formally approved a draft agreement setting out relations between the Direction Générale du [...]

Subscribers only 05.10.1994

Spotlight | Sudan
FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

The release of French hostages in Lebanon in 1988 was achieved by secret non-governmental networks set up by Interior Minister Charles Pasqua. But this time the kidnapping of Carlos (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) in Sudan on 14 August was not a [.

Subscribers only 07.09.1994

Spotlight | France
DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

The French DGSE foreign intelligence service is going to recruit 500 additional civilian personnel over the next five years. This decision went unnoticed in the midst of a wealth of measures which formed part of a military spending plan recently [.

Subscribers only 20.07.1994

France
THE DST OPENS A MOSCOW OFFICE

After posting liaison officers in several European countries (I.N. n. 228), the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST, counter-espionage) [...]

Subscribers only 23.02.1994

France
DRM GAINS GROUND

By calling in several newsmen on 26 November to present the first balance sheet of France's new Military Intelligence Service [...]

Subscribers only 08.12.1993

France
INVEST IN "INTELLIGENCE"?

A "Defense and Intelligence" conference, organized by RPR deputy Pierre Pascallon, took place at the Senate in Paris on 26 [...]

Subscribers only 10.11.1993

France
DST COUNTER-SPY POSTS ABROAD

Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) foreign intelligence agency that answers to the defense ministry and Direction de la [...]

Subscribers only 10.11.1993

Spotlight | France
A NEW INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

On 6 October the French government appointed Philippe Parant, 61, as head of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) counter-espionage agency, thus putting a final touch to the reorganization of the French intelligence community six months after Prime [.

Subscribers only 13.10.1993

France
DGSE AND DRM IN 1993

In a report just published on military equipment and defense personnel for the years 1992 to 1994, the chairman of [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1992

France
CHANGES IN INTELLIGENCE

The intelligence services under the authority of the Ministry of Defense are finishing the reorganization which began after the Gulf [...]

Subscribers only 09.09.1992

France
PROTECTING FRANCE'S "PATRIMONY"?

Like most Western intelligence services, the DST, France's counter-espionage service, is facing a future without a major adversary and is [...]

Subscribers only 22.04.1992

France
TWO MAIN INTELLIGENCE DIMENSIONS

DGSE foreign intelligence is in the midst of a major reorganization in anticipation of the probable creation within the next [...]

Subscribers only 29.01.1992

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AL AASS IN PARIS

A delegation of three members of Sudan's intelligence service led by the deputy director of external security general Ahmed Al [...]

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JEAN HEINRICH

Although France's Military Intelligence Directorate (DRM) was only set up in May 1992, its boss (and founder), general Jean Heinrich, [...]

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France PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN OCTOBER?

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AL AASS IN PARIS

JEAN HEINRICH

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UNEASY "POWER-SHARING"

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PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT IN OCTOBER?

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A "JOKER" AT ARMAMENTS BOARD?

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DST TAKES TECHNICAL TACK

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A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

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ALGERIA'S LESSONS FOR FRENCH INTELLIGENCE

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NEW FUTURE FOR TAIGA - AND L4U

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MICHEL LACARRIERE

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WHY COL. DILLAIS WAS FIRED

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CHANGES AT THE TOP IN FRENCH INTELLIGENCE

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FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE

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DGSE-DRM AGREEMENT

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FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

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DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

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THE DST OPENS A MOSCOW OFFICE

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DRM GAINS GROUND

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INVEST IN "INTELLIGENCE"?

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DST COUNTER-SPY POSTS ABROAD

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A NEW INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

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CHANGES IN INTELLIGENCE

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PROTECTING FRANCE'S "PATRIMONY"?

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