Tag: DGSE
intelligence, led by the DGSE, the big winner in the arbitrations of the first version of the programming law
French soldiers from the DGSE during a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, January 17, 2022. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP This is one of the rare areas to…
“Intelligence works in cycles”, observes Philippe Hayez, former deputy director at the DGSE
At the headquarters of the Directorate General for External Security, in Paris, on June 4, 2015. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP Why has the DGSE (Directorate General for External Security) recently…
Former DGSE boss indicted for complicity in attempted extortion
A businessman accuses the intelligence service of using coercion to demand money from him in 2016. SourceAFP In October 2022, Bernard Bajolet was heard and indicted. He explains to the…
“At 28, I volunteered at the DGSE”
CLARA DUPRÉ I became a spy in 2007. I was 28 years old, I had gone to England to learn the language, when a friend offered me to go and…
DGSE: did you know that French intelligence organizes a competition open to (almost) everyone every year?
Thibaut Keutchayan November 05, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. 20 © Shutterstock In partnership with the CentraleSupélec engineering school, the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) is back for a fourth…
The DGSE: forty years of mysteries and tumults
Reserved for subscribers The General Directorate of External Security, the French spy service, celebrated its anniversary in all discretion. As his look… By Jean Guisnel Published on 04/10/2022 at 12:00…
The former head of the DGSE reconsiders his remarks about a “mole” of the Russians in the office of a French defense minister
The former director of the foreign intelligence service (DGSE) Bernard Bajolet returned, Monday, October 18, to his remarks broadcast Sunday evening in a documentary, where he seemed to confirm the…