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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 [...]

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France
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United States
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United States
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Subscribers only 23.11.1995

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Congress has shown some wariness over at least one striking aspect of a plan by CIA director John Deutch to [...]

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Spotlight | United States
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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.

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France
JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT

Accused of spying for France's DGSE by Texas Instruments (TI), Jean-Piere Dolait probably owes his sudden exposure to the limelight [...]

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Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

The advent of a Republican majority in Congress has reassured the U.S. intelligence community that it will obtain both the funds and encouragement needed to pursue its post-Cold War objectives. Top intelligence executives had feared that resources would have been [.

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France
DGSE-DRM AGREEMENT

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Spotlight | Sudan
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France
UNEASY "POWER-SHARING"

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

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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

Spotlight | France
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France
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Spotlight | United States
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Spotlight | United States COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE

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SECRET CONTACTS WITH PARIS

JEAN HEINRICH

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Spotlight | France
DGSE "STRATEGIC" PRIORITIES

Albania
WESTERN SPY STAMPEDE

United States
TOO MUCH COLLECTION, LACK OF ANALYSIS

France
A "JOKER" AT ARMAMENTS BOARD?

Spotlight | United States
HOW PEACE-KEEPERS GLEAN VITAL INTELLIGENCE

Spotlight | United States
HOW TO MODERNIZE INTELLIGENCE?

Spotlight | France
A SKILLED MEDIATOR TO DOVETAIL FRENCH SERVICES

France
CHANGES AT ELF AND ITS SUB-CONTRACTORS

United States
SPYING SECRETS UNVEILED

United States
NEW ACCENT ON HUMINT

United States
ROGER TAMRAZ

United States
PORTER GOSS

France
A SOBER LOOK AT SPECIAL FORCES

France
NEW FUTURE FOR TAIGA - AND L4U

United States
TAKING "C" OUT OF COVERT

Spotlight | United States
DRAWING NEW MAP FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE

United States
SPLITTING THE BURDEN

United States
MILITARY BETTER AT COVERT WORK

United States
AIDE SLAMS MILITARY "TAKEOVER"

United States
KEEPING LID ON FRONT COMPANIES

France
WHY COL. DILLAIS WAS FIRED

Spotlight | United States
NEW POWER PLAY FOR CIA

Spotlight | France, United States
FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE

France
JEAN-PIERRE DOLAIT

Spotlight | United States
U.S.A.: BETTER DAYS AHEAD?

France
DGSE-DRM AGREEMENT

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FRENCH GAME, AMERICAN TRUMPS

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UNEASY "POWER-SHARING"

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DRM GAINS GROUND

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INVEST IN "INTELLIGENCE"?

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MIDDLE ROAD FOR THE DGSE

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A "MULTIPLE WARHEAD" MESSAGE

France, United States
IMAGINARY SPIES

France
DGSE AND DRM IN 1993

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CHANGES IN INTELLIGENCE

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COVERT ACTIONS' FUTURE

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TWO MAIN INTELLIGENCE DIMENSIONS