Intelligence Agencies of France - Currently Active

Currently Active

  • 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.
  • DCRI: Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence - Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur. Founded in 2008 by the merger of the RG and the DST, it is tasked with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism and the surveillance of potential threats on French territory.
  • 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.
  • BRGE: Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Brigade - Brigade de renseignement et de guerre électronique.
  • ANSSI: French Network and Information Security Agency - Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information.
  • 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.

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