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The DGSE's cursed treasure (1/4) - A fund set up in the wake of the two world wars, to finance a government in exile if France were again occupied, eventually became a curse. This first episode looks at the complex financial structures French foreign intelligence secretly set up to build the fund.
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Set up in the wake of the two world wars with the aim of financing a French government in exile should the country suffer a collapse similar to that of 1940, the hidden fund of France's DGSE foreign intelligence service eventually became a curse. Intelligence Online lifts the veil on one of the French Republic's best-kept secrets.
