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House Cleaning at DGSE Confirmed

The French defense ministry has approved a new organizational chart for France's foreign intelligence agency DGSE, which comes under its [...]

Published on 19/12/2002 at 11:00 GMT

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Spotlight | France, United States
French Secretly Embarrassed over Echelon

Details of the Echelon affair that spilled from a debate in the European Parliament on Feb. 22-23 stirred a lot of anti-U.S. sentiment in Europe, and singularly among the French public who accused Washington of being behind all of the [.

Subscribers only 16.03.2000

Spotlight | Europe, United States
THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION

During the G8 summit meeting in Moscow this week as ministers laid plans for future cooperation in fighting cybercrime several law enforcement and intelligence officials on the sidelines were instead weighing the consequences of mass-produced encryption.

Subscribers only 21.10.1999

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

France
CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

The appointment of gen. Patrice de Loustal, who was head [...]

Subscribers only 09.10.1997

China, France
BACKDROP TO A STATE VISIT

There was a strange backdrop to French president Jacques Chirac's visit to China in mid-May. Indeed, the Chinese side prepared [...]

Subscribers only 29.05.1997

Spotlight | France, UAE
FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

Signed very discreetly on Dec. 20, a document laying down the "ways and means" of implementing a defence treaty concluded between France and the United Arab Emirates in January 1995 marks a decisive victory for Paris in the battle that [.

Subscribers only 11.01.1996

France
SOME STAY, OTHERS DON'T

When he took over as France's new defence minister Charles Millon kept on a number of staff who had worked [...]

Subscribers only 14.06.1995

France
WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR TAIGA?

Some uncertainty surrounds the future of Taiga, a sophisticated information management system developed since 1987 for France's Direction Générale de [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 29.03.1995

France
SUCCESS ABROAD, INFIGHTING AT HOME

The heads of French intelligence and leading political figures are all jockeying for position in advance of France's presidential elections [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

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 | Germany
INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

Like many other intelligence services the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is involved in a serious debate concerning possible future involvement in economic intelligence. According to an internal document signed by the BND operations chief, Volker Foertsch, the service should begin furnishing [.

Subscribers only 26.01.1994

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

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Spotlight | France, United States
French Secretly Embarrassed over Echelon

Spotlight | Europe, United States
THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION

Spotlight | France
A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

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CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

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BACKDROP TO A STATE VISIT

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FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

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SOME STAY, OTHERS DON'T

France
WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR TAIGA?

France
SUCCESS ABROAD, INFIGHTING AT HOME

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FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

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INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

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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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Spotlight | France, United States French Secretly Embarrassed over Echelon

Spotlight | Europe, United States THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION

Spotlight | France A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

France CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

China, France BACKDROP TO A STATE VISIT

Spotlight | France, UAE FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

France SOME STAY, OTHERS DON'T

France WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR TAIGA?

France SUCCESS ABROAD, INFIGHTING AT HOME

Spotlight | Sudan FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

Spotlight | Germany INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

France INVEST IN "INTELLIGENCE"?

France DST COUNTER-SPY POSTS ABROAD

Spotlight | France A NEW INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

AL AASS IN PARIS

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China, Europe
Chinese influence and interference in Western Europe

North Korea, Russia
Moscow and Pyongyang's budding 'romance'

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

Ukraine
Jamming wars

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

France
House Cleaning at DGSE Confirmed

Spotlight | France, United States
French Secretly Embarrassed over Echelon

Spotlight | Europe, United States
THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION

Spotlight | France
A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

France
CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

China, France
BACKDROP TO A STATE VISIT

Spotlight | France, UAE
FRENCH MILITARY UMBRELLA FOR UAE

France
SOME STAY, OTHERS DON'T

France
WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR TAIGA?

France
SUCCESS ABROAD, INFIGHTING AT HOME

Spotlight | Sudan
FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

Spotlight | Germany
INTELLIGENCE: NEW GRAY ZONES

France
INVEST IN "INTELLIGENCE"?

France
DST COUNTER-SPY POSTS ABROAD

Spotlight | France
A NEW INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY