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A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH SECRET SERVICE
Roger Faligot, Jean Guisnel et Rémi Kauffer
A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH SECRET SERVICE
(From anti-Nazi Resistance to 2012)
This book is quite unique: it provides a full description of the history of the DGSE (General Directorate of External Security) and its predecessors from the 1940’s up to now. The French spy and counter-intelligence agency inherited from the underground networks of anti-Nazi Resistance as well as the London-based Free French intelligence service under general de Gaulle.
During the Cold War, it became known as SDECE (Foreign Documentation and Counterintelligence Service) and was extremely active in the Indochinese War, the Algerian War, (under the 4th Republic) and later under the presidency of General de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou and Valery Giscard d’Estaing. As Socialist President Francois Mitterrand came to power, its name was changed as DGSE (1982). And since then under Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, it has been spying abroad as it carries on under Socialist President Francois Hollande. This extraordinary collective adventure of the French secret agents described here covers seven decades.
The three most outstanding investigative reporters and historians of this intelligence world in France, Roger Faligot, Jean Guisnel and Rémi Kauffer describe in detail the somehow difficult relationship between French spies, the state and political leaders. To do so, they have opened classified files they collected over four decades. Likewise, they profile many of these men and women, directors, key officers and rank-and-file. They describe their undercover operations on all continents, quoting hundreds of interviews with those intelligencers they have met over the years until now. They also detail the relationship with allied and ’friendly’ services, the CIA, the British MI6, the Mossad, the German BND, the Indian RAW, as well as key ’ennemies’ such as the Soviet KGB, the Russian SVR or the Chinese Guoanbu. Economic intelligence, secret war against the terror of Islamic radicals, underground battle against Chinese spies, the cyber-war, the strategy against nuclear proliferation in Iran or North Korea, are only a few of numerous operations carried out by the DGSE and unveiled in this book.
Enriched with many scoops, their spectacular narration provides a new perspective on the modus operandi of the French secret service, full of technical details and unkown testimonies. An index of 6,000 names ensures that this magnus opus will undoubtedly become a reference book on the subject.
A reporter and writer, specialising in Asian and Far Eastern affairs, Roger Faligot already authored several best-sellers on the subject: La Piscine (1985), DST, Police secrète (1999), or Les Services secrets chinois (2007).
Jean Guisnel is a prolific writer and journalist with the weekly Paris magazine Le Point and the Breton daily Le Télégramme. He co-authored Services secrets. Le pouvoir et les services de renseignement sous Mitterrand (1988) and a TV documentary series Histoire des services secrets français (2011). He also authored numerous books such as La Citadelle endormie. faillite du renseignement américain (2002) et Armes de corruption massive (2011).
Rémi Kauffer, writer and journalist, is a member of the editorial board of the monthly magazine Historia, and works with the weekly Le Figaro Magazine. He authored investigative books such as L’Arme de la désinformation (1999) et OAS, histoire d’une guerre franco-française (2001). With Roger Faligot, he published L’Histoire mondiale du renseignement (in two volumes, 1993 et 1994, with a foreword from two outstanding legends of French intelligence colonel Paul Paillole and Alexandre de Marenches).
Together, the three of them have published some fifty books about this intelligence world (some being translated in twenty countries). They also played a key role in the great literary success L’Histoire secrète de la Ve République (published in 2006 like this one by the Paris-based publishers La Découverte).
ISBN 978-2-7071-6741-5 26 euros
A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH SECRET SERVICE
(From anti-Nazi Resistance to 2012)
This book is quite unique: it provides a full description of the history of the DGSE (General Directorate of External Security) and its predecessors from the 1940’s up to now. The French spy and counter-intelligence agency inherited from the underground networks of anti-Nazi Resistance as well as the London-based Free French intelligence service under general de Gaulle.
During the Cold War, it became known as SDECE (Foreign Documentation and Counterintelligence Service) and was extremely active in the Indochinese War, the Algerian War, (under the 4th Republic) and later under the presidency of General de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou and Valery Giscard d’Estaing. As Socialist President Francois Mitterrand came to power, its name was changed as DGSE (1982). And since then under Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, it has been spying abroad as it carries on under Socialist President Francois Hollande. This extraordinary collective adventure of the French secret agents described here covers seven decades.
The three most outstanding investigative reporters and historians of this intelligence world in France, Roger Faligot, Jean Guisnel and Rémi Kauffer describe in detail the somehow difficult relationship between French spies, the state and political leaders. To do so, they have opened classified files they collected over four decades. Likewise, they profile many of these men and women, directors, key officers and rank-and-file. They describe their undercover operations on all continents, quoting hundreds of interviews with those intelligencers they have met over the years until now. They also detail the relationship with allied and ’friendly’ services, the CIA, the British MI6, the Mossad, the German BND, the Indian RAW, as well as key ’ennemies’ such as the Soviet KGB, the Russian SVR or the Chinese Guoanbu. Economic intelligence, secret war against the terror of Islamic radicals, underground battle against Chinese spies, the cyber-war, the strategy against nuclear proliferation in Iran or North Korea, are only a few of numerous operations carried out by the DGSE and unveiled in this book.
Enriched with many scoops, their spectacular narration provides a new perspective on the modus operandi of the French secret service, full of technical details and unkown testimonies. An index of 6,000 names ensures that this magnus opus will undoubtedly become a reference book on the subject.
A reporter and writer, specialising in Asian and Far Eastern affairs, Roger Faligot already authored several best-sellers on the subject: La Piscine (1985), DST, Police secrète (1999), or Les Services secrets chinois (2007).
Jean Guisnel is a prolific writer and journalist with the weekly Paris magazine Le Point and the Breton daily Le Télégramme. He co-authored Services secrets. Le pouvoir et les services de renseignement sous Mitterrand (1988) and a TV documentary series Histoire des services secrets français (2011). He also authored numerous books such as La Citadelle endormie. faillite du renseignement américain (2002) et Armes de corruption massive (2011).
Rémi Kauffer, writer and journalist, is a member of the editorial board of the monthly magazine Historia, and works with the weekly Le Figaro Magazine. He authored investigative books such as L’Arme de la désinformation (1999) et OAS, histoire d’une guerre franco-française (2001). With Roger Faligot, he published L’Histoire mondiale du renseignement (in two volumes, 1993 et 1994, with a foreword from two outstanding legends of French intelligence colonel Paul Paillole and Alexandre de Marenches).
Together, the three of them have published some fifty books about this intelligence world (some being translated in twenty countries). They also played a key role in the great literary success L’Histoire secrète de la Ve République (published in 2006 like this one by the Paris-based publishers La Découverte).
ISBN 978-2-7071-6741-5 26 euros
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