Directorate-General for External Security
The Directorate-General for External Security is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE safeguards French national... Wikipedia
- Formed: 27 November 1943
- Preceding agency: External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service
- Jurisdiction: Government of France
- Headquarters: 141 Boulevard Mortier, Paris XX, France
- Motto: Partout où nécessité fait loi, "Wherever necessity makes law"
- Employees: 7,000
- Annual budget: €880 million (2021)
- Minister responsible: Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces
- executive: Nicolas Lerner, Director
- Parent agency: Ministry of Armed Forces
- Data source: DuckDuckGo