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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 [...] (841 words)

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