Le général Jacques Langlade de Montgros a été nommé à la tête du renseignement militaire français (DRM), après l'éviction d'un précédent directeur à qui on a notamment reproché les insuffisances de ses services sur l'invasion russe en Ukraine, a appris mercredi 13 avril l'AFP de source proche du dossier.
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The appointment of this Saint-Cyrien, former commander of the 1st parachute hussar regiment (2010-2012), confirms information published earlier on Wednesday by the weekly
Le Point.
The closed world of intelligence is no stranger to General Langlade de Montgros, who was assigned from 2007 to 2010 to the reserved office of the cabinet of the Minister of Defense, in charge of relations with the intelligence services of the ministry, at the time of the creation of the National Intelligence Coordination (2008).
The officer then held the position of head of the intelligence office of the Center for Planning and Command of Operations (CPCO) from 2015 to 2017, before being appointed to the operations - international relations cell of the cabinet of the Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parley.
He commanded the 11th parachute brigade in Toulouse from 2019 to 2021 before heading the European Union mission in the Central African Republic until February 2022. He has since been an inspector at the Army Inspectorate.
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Transform to fit
The new director will have to take charge of the DRM transformation project launched more than a year ago, aimed at adapting military intelligence to the intensification of crises and to the exponential mass of data to be processed.
He will replace General Éric Vidaud, appointed to this post last summer, from the Special Operations Command (COS).
His appointment had been the result of games of musical chairs that had made noise within the military community.
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At the beginning of March, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian forces, the Chief of the Defense Staff, General Thierry Burkhard, had admitted the differences in analysis between the French and the Americans on the question of a possible Russian offensive against kyiv.
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