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Intelligence community squares up to rare languages challenge

As the French intelligence community is lacking language specialists, the foreign intelligence service, DGSE, is taking the lead in rare languages. [...]

Published on 28/11/2018 at 11:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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