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France and the World since 1870 (2001) ch 4: "French Intelligence" pp 80–109. Parry, D. L. L. "Clemenceau, Caillaux and the Political Use of Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security 9#3 (1994): 472-494. Porch, Douglas. The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Drefus Affair to the Gulf War (Macmillan, 2003).
SO only operates on French soil, where it mounts secret HUMINT operations such as searching hotel rooms, opening mail or diplomatic pouches. In the year 2010/11, the DGSE has been training agents of Bahrain's National Security, the intelligence service which is trying to subdue the country's Shi'ite opposition protests.
The organization was preceded by the Deuxième Bureau, which had been the French external military intelligence agency since 1871.. Following the defeat of France in 1940, the Vichy France regime's intelligence service was organized within the Centre d’information gouvernemental (Center for Government Information, CIG), under the direction of Admiral François Darlan.
A small intelligence section remained within the General Staff, but the Service de surveillance du territoire (Territorial Surveillance Service, SST), an agency of the Sûreté générale, became responsible for the pursuit of foreign spies on French soil. Counter-espionage was to be handled by special Sûreté police chiefs.
The General Directorate for Internal Security (French: Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure, pronounced [diʁɛksjɔ̃ ʒeneʁal də la sekyʁite ɛ̃teʁjœʁ], DGSI; also known as the Directorate-General for Internal Security in English) [1] is a French security agency.
In April 2013, the French interior intelligence agency DCRI pressured the president of Wikimedia France, Rémi Mathis, into deleting the French-language Wikipedia article about the station. It was then promptly restored by another Wikipedia contributor living in Switzerland.
Netflix's 2016 original series A Very Secret Service (French: Au service de la France) René Mathis from the James Bond novel Casino Royale is an SDECE operative, as the book takes place in 1951 and he's described as being from France's intelligence agency. Later, in From Russia With Love, he is promoted to head of the SDECE.
The Directorate of Military Intelligence (French: Direction du renseignement militaire, pronounced [diʁɛksjɔ̃ dy ʁɑ̃sɛɲmɑ̃ militɛʁ], DRM) is a French intelligence agency that has the task of collecting and centralizing military intelligence information for the French Armed Forces.