Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE)
French foreign intelligence agency 1945-82
The Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE, External Documentation and Counter-espionage Service), was France's foreign intelligence agency from 1945 to 1982 when it was replaced by the DGSE (ref 1).
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