The French Secret Services

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1560001119

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The French Secret Services by Anonim Pdf

The French secret services have a long history dating back to the "ancien regime. "With the founding of the Third Republic (1870-1940) the famous Second Bureau was created as France's principal intelligence-gathering organization. After the Germans invaded France in 1940, however, the services splintered and diversified, with Vichy agencies and Collaborationists, the Free French and the internal resistance all in contention. More recently, since 1944 the activities of the reorganized French secret services have extended across a surprisingly wide area, sometimes with spectacular results as in the 'Greenpeace Affair' in New Zealand in 1985. This volume deals with the French secret services according to a chronological framework which reflects the evolution of the services which were created and transformed by both internal and external historical factors. The bibliography commences with an examination of the origins and development of the French Intelligence Service from the "ancien regime "to 1870. It then considers the history and activities of the secret services during the following periods: the Third Republic; the Second World War; the Fourth Republic; and the Fifth Republic, firstly between 1958 and 1981 and then during the 1980s and 1990s, including the 'Greenpeace Affair'. This is an essential reference tool for all those interested in the history of intelligence agencies and national security in general and in the development of the French secret services in particular.

Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Efterretningstjenester
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070191668

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The French Secret Services by Douglas Porch Pdf

This comprehensive history of French intelligence from the 1880s to the present tells the dramatic, untold story of the transition of France's spy networks of the ancien r(r)gime and Napoleon into modern intelligence services.

Author : Richard Deacon
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : UVA:X001737282

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The French Secret Service by Richard Deacon Pdf

Author : Patti Polisar
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 082393814X

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Inside France's DGSE by Patti Polisar Pdf

An introduction to the history, functions, and current goals of France's intelligence agency, the DGSE or Direction gâenâerale de la sâecuritâe extâerieure.

Author : Simon Kitson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226438955

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The Hunt for Nazi Spies by Simon Kitson Pdf

From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them—all despite the Vichy government’s declared collaboration with the Third Reich. A previously untold chapter in the history of World War II, this duplicitous activity is the gripping subject of The Hunt for Nazi Spies, a tautly narrated chronicle of the Vichy regime’s attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. Simon Kitson informs this remarkable story with findings from his investigation—the first by any historian—of thousands of Vichy documents seized in turn by the Nazis and the Soviets and returned to France only in the 1990s. His pioneering detective work uncovers a puzzling paradox: a French government that was hunting down left-wing activists and supporters of Charles de Gaulle’s Free French forces was also working to undermine the influence of German spies who were pursuing the same Gaullists and resisters. In light of this apparent contradiction, Kitson does not deny that Vichy France was committed to assisting the Nazi cause, but illuminates the complex agendas that characterized the collaboration and shows how it was possible to be both anti-German and anti-Gaullist. Combining nuanced conclusions with dramatic accounts of the lives of spies on both sides, The Hunt for Nazi Spies adds an important new dimension to our understanding of the French predicament under German occupation and the shadowy world of World War II espionage.

Author : Roger Faligot,Pascal Krop
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0631156569

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La Piscine by Roger Faligot,Pascal Krop Pdf

Provides insight into the workings of the French secret service, revealing its successes and failures, its structure, key decision makers, and operations

Author : Elizabeth Mary Sparrow
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157645

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Secret Service by Elizabeth Mary Sparrow Pdf

The secret history' of the secret service, from the aftermath of the French revolution to the defeat of Napoleon.

Author : Dominique Poirier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1687670536

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Dgse by Dominique Poirier Pdf

The French intelligence service DGSE is recognized today as one of the most aggressive in the world. Once described by one of its former senior executives as "a little North Korea," it has also made a sinister reputation for itself for its readiness to kill, including its own. But it is lesser known for the secret war it wages against the United States since the end of the Cold War, and its obsession with domestic espionage spurred by a fear of Muslim terrorism and pervading American-style capitalism. On April 2000, French weekly Courrier international published the last words of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand, and between others he avowed for the first time, "France does not know it, but we are at war against the United States. A permanent economic war; a war without dead." Dominique Poirier who worked for more than twenty years for the DGSE takes us behind the closed curtain of the French intelligence community, to reveals for the first time shocking realities on mass surveillance and domestic influence in France, assassinations, and secret operations against the United States laced with startling revelations. And he tells us how the discreet cooperation between French and Russian spies evolved since Time magazine at last reported it in April 1968 with the scandal of the Martel Affair, two years after France and the Soviet Union had signed a decisive agreement on science and technology sharing. DGSE; The French Spy Machine is the biggest and richest book published to date on an intelligence service, detailing its current organization, methods, techniques and objectives.

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300240528

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The Secret World by Christopher Andrew Pdf

“A comprehensive exploration of spying in its myriad forms from the Bible to the present day . . . Easy to dip into, and surprisingly funny.” —Ben Macintyre in The New York Times Book Review The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful WWII intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of WWI, the grasp of intelligence shown by US President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and eighteenth-century British statesmen. In the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian and New York Times–bestselling author Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia—and shows us its continuing relevance. “Accurate, comprehensive, digestible and startling . . . a stellar achievement.” —Edward Lucas, The Times “For anyone with a taste for wide-ranging and shrewdly gossipy history—or, for that matter, for anyone with a taste for spy stories—Andrew’s is one of the most entertaining books of the past few years.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Remarkable for its scope and delightful for its unpredictable comparisons . . . there are important lessons for spymasters everywhere in this breathtaking and brilliant book.” —Richard J. Aldrich, Times Literary Supplement “Fans of Fleming and Furst will delight in this skillfully related true-fact side of the story.” —Kirkus Reviews “A crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world.” —Financial Times Includes illustrations

Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526755759

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MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909–1945 by Nigel West Pdf

The author of GCHG describes covert missions that “are worthy of spy fiction, but the entire book is utterly fascinating and informative. Brilliant!” (Books Monthly) Written by the renowned expert Nigel West, this book exposes the operations of Britain’s overseas intelligence-gathering organization, the famed Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, and traces its origins back to its inception in 1909. In this meticulously researched account, its activities and structure are described in detail, using original secret service documents. The main body of the book concerns MI6’s operations during the Second World War, and includes some remarkable successes and failures, including how MI6 financed a glamorous confidant of the German secret service; how a suspected French traitor was murdered by mistake; how Franco’s military advisors were bribed to keep Spain out of the war; how members of the Swedish secret police were blackmailed into helping the British war effort; how a sabotage operation in neutral Tangiers enabled the Allied landings in North Africa to proceed undetected; and how Britain’s generals ignored the first ULTRA decrypts because MI6 said that the information had come from “a well-placed source called BONIFACE.” In this new edition, operations undertaken by almost all of MI6’s overseas stations are recounted in extraordinary detail. They will fascinate both the professional intelligence officer and the general reader. The book includes organizational charts to illustrate MI6’s internal structure and its wartime network of overseas stations. Backed by numerous interviews with intelligence officers and their agents, this engaging inside story throws light on many wartime incidents that had previously remained unexplained. “[An] extraordinary book.” —The Daily Telegraph “Fascinating reading.” —Firetrench

Author : Pascal Le Pautremat
Publisher : Résistance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 2352502705

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The Free French Secret Agents by Pascal Le Pautremat Pdf

How did so few men manage to organize resistance networks and gather so much intelligence in such a short time, despite being unceasingly hunted by the German and Vichy counterespionage services? Using very often unpublished or ignored documents, this is an account of General de Gaulle's secret services.

Author : Deborah Bauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229144

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Marianne Is Watching by Deborah Bauer Pdf

Polly Corrigan Book Prize shortlist Professional intelligence became a permanent feature of the French state as a result of the army's June 8, 1871, reorganization following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Intelligence practices developed at the end of the nineteenth century without direction or oversight from elected officials, and yet the information gathered had a profound influence on the French population and on pre-World War I Europe more broadly. In Marianne Is Watching Deborah Bauer examines the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to protect the nation. By leading readers through the processes and outcomes of professionalizing intelligence in three parts--covering the creation of permanent intelligence organizations within the state; the practice of intelligence; and the place of intelligence in the public sphere--Bauer fuses traditional state-focused history with social and cultural analysis to provide a modern understanding of intelligence and its role in both state formation and cultural change. With this first English-language book-length treatment of the history of French intelligence services in the era of their inception, Bauer provides a penetrating study not just of the security establishment in pre-World War I France but of the diverse social climate it nurtured and on which it fed.

Author : Alexandre de Marenches,Christine Ockrent
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014451515

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The Evil Empire by Alexandre de Marenches,Christine Ockrent Pdf

This is a study based on interviews with leading French journalist, Christine Ockrent, where de Marenches, head of the French Secret Service for eleven years, expresses personal views on the invisible war - the East-West conflict - and on the wars in the Middle East, African relations, Cambodia and Libya, terrorism and the Greenpeace affair. The book concludes with his own master plan for the West.

Author : Roger Trinquier
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : France
ISBN : 9781428916890

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Modern Warfare by Roger Trinquier Pdf

Author : Paul Todd,Jonathan Bloch
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842771132

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Global Intelligence by Paul Todd,Jonathan Bloch Pdf

This fascinating exploration of secret service and intelligence agencies throughout the world details the new roles they have found for themselves as they target rogue states, terrorism, and the drug war. It shows how ultramodern technologies have increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home. It also exposes the unsolved contradiction between the world of these secretive, unaccountable agencies and the requirements of a free, democratic society.