Spotlight | France
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France
JOINING RANKS AGAINST RUSSIAN CRIME

The fight against organized Russian crime has prompted high-level cooperation between French intelligence agencies which answer variously to the country's [...]

France
HAS ALGERIAN SECURITY INFILTRATED FRENCH INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS?

According to different sources at France's interior ministry, the police [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

France
PIERRE JOXE PLACES HIS MEN

High level appointments at France's defense and interior ministries in the wake of the Left's victory in the June 1 [...]

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 [.

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 [...]

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.

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.

France
RISE IN STATUS FOR RG

Interior minister Charles Pasqua has handed the French police intelligence service Renseignement Generaux (RG) a promotion which it had been [...]

France
ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST SWOOP

In dismantling a major network that provided military and financial backing for Islamist extremists in Algeria on Nov. 7, Jean-Pierre [...]

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 [.

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]