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Notable DGSE agents
| Notable agents : 2000s |
|---|
| Name(s) |
Status and known actions |
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| Marc Aubrière |
An officer who was kidnapped by Islamic militia in Somalia in 2009 and managed to escape. |
| Guillaume Didier |
An officer of the Action Division who disappeared in 2003 following the failure of a DGSE operation in Morocco. |
| Philippe de Dieuleveult |
A supposed DGSE agent who mysteriously disappeared during an expedition in Zaire in 1985. |
| Hervé Jaubert |
A former French navy officer and DGSE agent who moved to Dubai in 2004 to build recreational submarines. Following allegations of fraud, his passport was confiscated in 2008. Jaubert escaped on a dinghy to India and resurfaced in Florida in the U.S. where he filed a lawsuit against Dubai World. |
| Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur |
Two DGSE officers who took part to the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and who were subsequently arrested by New Zealand police. |
| Xavier Maniguet |
A former DGSE agent who also took part in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. |
| Pierre Martinet |
A former DGSE agent, who retired after having his cover blown while watching Islamist militants in London. Martinet later wrote a book uncovering details of how the DGSE planned its assassination of political targets. He was subsequently sentenced to six months in prison for divulging defence secrets. |
| Bernard Nut |
A French army officer and DGSE agent responsible for actions conducted in the Côte d'Azur and Middle East regions, and whose assassination in 1985 made headlines in French media. |
| Philippe Rondot |
A retired French army general and former councilor in charge of coordinating foreign intelligence for the French ministry of defence. |
| Gérard Royal |
A former DGSE agent accused of being a Rainbow Warrior bomber and brother of French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal. |
Intelligence agencies of France
| Current :
DGSE *
DCRI *
Defunct :
Cabinet noir *
Secret du Roi *
Deuxième Bureau *
BCRA *
DGER *
SDECE *
DCRG *
DST |
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