Word: dgse
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Parallels can also be drawn between the KGB and Nicaragua's General Directorate of State Security (DGSE), which keeps effective tabs on the population. Armed with emergency powers that enable security police to detain virtually anyone for any length of time without charges, the DGSE is intimidating, although it is less repressive than the security apparatus in some other Latin American countries. "It is the primary instrument utilized to consolidate the revolution," says a Western diplomat. "Its objective is to identify and neutralize counterrevolutionaries and prevent and neutralize the development of an internal front...
...recent months, dozens of Nicaraguans have been summoned to Casa 50, the interrogation center run by DGSE. In November, for instance, police rounded up several Nicaraguans who worked in various foreign embassies. The detainees later said they had been accused of collaborating with the counter revolution and were grilled for up to 13 hours. None were beaten. Before they were released, a number were encouraged to work for the DGSE. Some subsequently quit their jobs...
...absolutely not to blame in all this." He chose a respected military man, Army Chief of Staff General Rene Imbot, 60, to replace Lacoste at the head of the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, France's overseas espionage agency. Imbot's first assignment was to reorganize the DGSE. The housecleaning had begun with the arrest of four agents suspected of leaking information on the Greenpeace case to the press. They were officially indicted last week on charges of revealing secrets "damaging to the national defense," an offense punishable by five years in prison...
...Zealand, meanwhile, two other DGSE agents face a preliminary hearing in November in connection with the sinking. Identified as Major Alain Mafart, 34, and Captain Dominique Prieur, 36, they were arrested shortly after the attack in Auckland harbor. The French government now acknowledges they were a support team for the frogmen who planted the hull-attached mines but argues that they should not be prosecuted since they were acting under orders. New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, however, has ruled out any "deal" to exchange their freedom for French reparations. Denouncing the sabotage mission as "a sordid act of terrorism...
...Rainbow Warrior will ever face trial in New Zealand. French law forbids their extradition, and the Mitterrand government, so far at least, refuses to name them. But in the arena of French politics, the prosecution of Laurent Fabius and Francois Mitterrand may have just begun. At week's end DGSE Director Imbot issued an ominous warning: "There has been a plot to destabilize and destroy the intelligence services. I have now sealed off those services. From now on, anything you hear in the press does not come from intelligence agents." That suggested, as both Fabius and Hernu have hinted before...