The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War
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ISBN: 0374158533 / Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, August 1995
A comprehensive history of French intelligence from the 1880s to the present tells the story of the transformation of France's spy networks into modern intelligence services and explains operations of French intelligence in the context of France's divided political culture.
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A scholarly but highly readable account of France's intelligence networks, from the "black chambers" of the ancien rTgime and Napoleon to the formation of the SDECE (CIA) and the DST (FBI). The events chronicled range from the Dreyfus Affair, to WWI and WWII, to Indochina and Algeria, to the Rainbow Warrior debacle. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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