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Bernard Émié (head of the DGSE): "Today like yesterday, our agents are on the front line..."

2022-06-22T16:06:13.830Z


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - The Director General of External Security explains how the DGSE, which is celebrating a double anniversary, is coping with the ordeal of the war in Ukraine.


LE FIGARO.

- For the DGSE, 2022 is the Year of Memory, with two important anniversaries?

Bernard EMIE.

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This year marks both the forty years of the DGSE and the 80 years of its ancestor, the Central Intelligence and Action Bureau (BCRA), created in London on January 17, 1942 by General de Gaulle.

The BCRA is the model of the French secret service, combining intelligence and action and subordinated to politics, which continued with the creation of the Sdece in 1945 and the DGSE on April 2, 1982. Today, the DGSE continues to provide information, to anticipate and act outside the national territory, often clandestinely.

Celebrating this double anniversary means answering two essential questions: where do we come from?

And who are we today?

From the BCRA to the DGSE, generations of women and men accomplished yesterday and still accomplish extraordinary work, done by ordinary citizens.

Which implies commitments, renunciations and sacrifices…

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Source: lefigaro

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