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...Earlier on Saturday, the French newspaper L'Est Republicain cited a report by the French intelligence service, Direction Generale des Services Exteriors (DGSE), saying that Saudi intelligence officials "seem to have become convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead." The report quoted by the newspaper said the Saudis believe bin Laden "might have succumbed to a very serious case of typhoid fever resulting in partial paralysis of his lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006." Echoing that report, a Saudi source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME that Saudi officials have received multiple reports over the last...
Last week two French magazines accused the terrorists of being French government agents. VSD and L'Evénement du Jeudi charged that agents of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), France's CIA, had arranged the sabotage of the Greenpeace vessel. The accusation brought an immediate response from President François Mitterrand, who dispatched a letter to Lange. "The information that has been sent to us leads us to think that a link may exist between the French service and two persons implicated by New Zealand authorities in the affair of the Rainbow Warrior...
...Zealand, though it is commonly used by the French navy. Oxygen tanks used by divers that were washed up on a nearby beach also bore French registration marks. "Why didn't they leave behind a Basque beret, a loaf of bread and a bottle of Beaujolais?" one DGSE spokesman asked...
...weapons. The announcement came during a week of continuing sectarian violence in which a Roman Catholic man, Gerald Lawlor, 19, was killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Loyalist terror group. FRANCE Spy Chief Sacked President Jacques Chirac fired the head of France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE. The spy agency is accused of launching a probe that resulted in two reports, in 1999 and 2000, into the nature of Chirac's links with disgraced Japanese banker Shoichi Osada. The reports were undertaken while Chirac's socialist opponents were in power. Earlier this month, the President sacked the head...
Most nations admit they are interested in technical intelligence. "Today's espionage," said Claude Silberzahn, the head of the French foreign- intelligence agency DGSE who was forced out after the flap with the U.S., "is essentially economic, scientific, technological and financial...