Deacon tends to rely on sources with an axe to grind, but then most of
his spook friends, by virtue of their profession, are information hatchet
men of one sort or another. As this is the first English-language history
of the French secret service, we can't be choosy. He begins his chronology
before the revolution, and about one-third through the book has arrived at
DeGaulle's World War II resistance, which is where we began reading. The
SDECE underwent a name change and became the DGSE in 1982, while counter-
intelligence is handled by a separate agency, the DST. One chapter is about
the Greenpeace affair of 1985, when French agents sank the Rainbow Warrior
while docked at Auckland, New Zealand. But another topic is ignored by
Deacon: the extent to which France may be involved with industrial and
high-tech spying in countries such as the U.S.
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