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Second Directorate of the National Defense Staff

French intelligence agency

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role in French intelligence operations

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    …French intelligence agency is the Second Directorate of the National Defense Staff, which combines, to some degree, formerly separate army, navy, and air force agencies. Charged with gathering foreign military intelligence for the French general staff, it is no doubt influenced by the traditions and doctrines of the French army’s…

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