False papers, cyanide ring, gas pen… in the secrets of General de Gaulle's spies

“You will not have to film, record or give your name.

You can just take notes..." Before the press visit to the exhibition "The General's Secret Agents", open from June 23 at the Museum of the Order of the Liberation (Paris, VIIe), the instructions were also clear than unusual.

The circumstances too.

For the occasion, an agent of the French secret services, we will call him Monsieur X, agreed, as discreetly as possible, to play the role of guide for this event co-organized, again a rare event, by the DGSE (Direction générale de external security).

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