Former Agencies
- BCRA: Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action was an intelligence agency created during World War II in 1940.
- DST: Directorate of Territorial Security - Direction de la surveillance du territoire. It was 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. It was abolished in 2008 and merged into the DCRI.
- RG: General Intelligence Directorate - Direction centrale des renseignements généraux. It was the intelligence agency of the French police, directed by the Minister of the Interior. It was charged with 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 with this anymore. It was merged into the Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur in 2008.
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