List of intelligence agencies of France
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List of intelligence agencies of France:
- DGSE - General Directorate for External Security - Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure. It is the military external intelligence agency, which succeeded to the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) in 1982 (itself preceded by the Direction générale des Études et Recherches (DGER), dependent of the BCRA).
- DRM - Directorate of Military Intelligence - Direction du renseignement militaire. It was created by Socialist Interior Minister Pierre Joxe in 1992, after the Gulf War, to centralize military intelligence information.
- DPSD - Directorate for Defense Protection and Security - Direction de la protection et de la sécurite de la défense. It is a military intelligence agency, charged of counter-espionage, struggle against the Mafia, etc. It works with the DST.
- BRGE - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Brigade - Brigade de renseignement et de guerre électronique
- SCSSI - Central Service for Information System Security - Service central de la sécurité des systèmes d'informations
- RG - General Information Service - Direction centrale des renseignement généraux. It is the intelligence agency of the French police, directed by the Minister of Interior. It is charged of overlooking gambling activities, criminal activities, and political radicals (far right and far left). It also used to have as mission to overlook French political parties, but officially is not charged of this anymore.
- DST - Directorate of Territorial Security - Direction de la surveillance du territoire. It is an intelligence agency of the Minister of Interior, charged of counter-espionage (in particular in economic matters), and, since the end of the Cold War, also of anti-terrorism issues.
- DCPJ - Judicial Police - Direction centrale de la police judiciaire
- CNCIS - National Commission for the Control of Security Interceptions - Commission nationale de contrôle des interceptions de sécurité
- The Bureau central de renseignements et d'action (BCRA) was an intelligence agency created during World War II (in 1940).
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