The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War - Hardcover
This text tells the story of the transition of France's spy networks of the "ancien regime" and Napolean into modern intelligence services. A leader in cryptoanalysis before and during the Great War, French intelligence could not save France from defeat in 1940. But de Gaulle would rely on his intelligence services both to negotiate with the Allies and to unify the Resistance. From 1945, fears of a Communist uprising, the colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and the premium that French politicians traditionally placed on domestic spies guaranteed a prominent role for the French services. The secret services also resorted to opium smuggling in Indochina and torture in Algeria, and were drawn into the "dirty tricks" of politicians, which continue to play a role in French political life today.;Ranging from diplomatic and military intelligence to covert operations and industrial espionage, this book explains the sometimes bizarre operations of French intelligence in the context of France's divided political culture and of her self-image as a world power.
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Douglas Porch is a professor of strategy at the Naval War College.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 033357656X
- ISBN 13 9780333576564
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages624
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Book Description Hardback. First published in 1996, a history of the French secret services which provides an account of France's spy networks and draws on previously restricted documentary evidence. 1996, First UK edition. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped d/w which is now in a protective cover. Seller Inventory # 15889282
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