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    Spymaster | France
    Thierry Matta, enduring chamberlain of France's DGSI

    DRO Thierry Matta has worked under all the directors of the DGSI: from left to right and top to bottom, Céline Berthon, Nicolas Lerner, Laurent Nuñez, Patrick Calvar and Bernard Squarcini.
    DRO Thierry Matta has worked under all the directors of the DGSI: from left to right and top to bottom, Céline Berthon, Nicolas Lerner, Laurent Nuñez, Patrick Calvar and Bernard Squarcini. © MaxPPP (Christophe Morin/Vincent Isore/IP3 Press, Christophe Petit Tesson, Guillaume Georges/PhotoPQR/Le Parisien)/DGSI/iStock

    Director-generals come and go, but Thierry Matta remains. While never in the limelight, he keeps the DGSI running from the shadows. We shed some light on the éminence grise who has reigned over French domestic intelligence for more than a decade.

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    Spy Way of Life | France, Thailand, United States
    The O.S.S. Bar in Bangkok, where the mystery of the Thai Silk King comes alive

    French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, on 17 November 2022.
    French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, on 17 November 2022. © Jacques Witt/Pool/AFP

    The Jim Thompson House museum in Bangkok was once the home of its eponymous owner, a US spy and businessman whose disappearance in 1967 remains shrouded in mystery. Over cocktails at the adjoining O.S.S. Bar, Intelligence Online looks back at the life of the man once known as the Thai Silk King.

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