Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur
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| Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence | |
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| Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur | |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1 July 2008 |
| Jurisdiction | French Ministry of the Interior |
| Headquarters | Levallois-Perret, France |
| Employees | > 3,300 |
| Annual budget | € 41 million |
| Minister responsible | Claude Guéant |
| Agency executive | Bernard Squarcini |
| Website | |
| www.interieur.gouv.fr | |
The Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DCRI) is a French intelligence agency which reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior. It became officially operational on 1 July 2008, through the merging of the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux and the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire of the French National Police.
The DCRI is headed by Bernard Squarcini.[1][2] It is organised with a headquarters and eight departments[citation needed]:
- Economic Protection (Gilles Gray),
- Terrorism (Michel Guerin),
- Intelligence Technologies (Michel Pages),
- Violent Subversion (Françoise Bilancini),
- General Administration (Thierry Matta),
- Support (Jean-François Lelievre),
- Counter-Espionnage (Jean Petronille),
- International Affairs (Eric Toucas).
The functions of the DCRI are:
- counter-espionage
- counter-terrorism
- countering cybercrime
- surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations and social phenomena.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "La ministre de l'intérieur présente le nouveau visage des services de renseignement français", Le Monde, 13 September 2007
- ^ "La réorganisation des services de renseignement", official website of the French Ministry of the Interior, 13 September 2007
- ^ "Décret n° 2008-609 du 27 juin 2008 relatif aux missions et à l'organisation de la direction centrale du renseignement intérieur", French government website, 28 June 2008
[edit] External links
- Official announcement of the agency's launch on the website of the French Ministry of the Interior.
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