DGSE

The General Directorate for External Security, or DGSE, is France's foreign-intelligence agency. Working alongside the DRCI, DGSE is responsible for the nation's counter-intelligence and paramilitary operations. Currently, the department was able to thwart 15 terrorist attacks within France. Since its early beginnings in 1947, the DGSE has been involved in countless scandals like the kidnapping and murder of a Moroccan politician named Mehdi Ben Barka. In addition, during the Cold War they were infiltrated by Soviet KGB operatives. Since then, the group evolved and have been able to defend France from internal and external threats. They were involved in the Yom Kippur War, they realized before the CIA that the Soviet forces were going to invade Afghanistan, and have been investigating radical Islamic groups throughout the Middle East.