This is a list of current and former French intelligence agencies.
Currently active
DGSE: General Directorate for External Security – Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure. It is the military foreign intelligence agency, which succeeded the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) in 1982 (itself preceded by the Direction Générale des Études et Recherches (DGER), dependent on the BCRA.
DGSI: General Directorate for Internal Security – Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure. Founded in 2008 by the merger of the RG and the DST, it is tasked with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism and the surveillance of potential threats on French territory.
DRM: Directorate of Military Intelligence – Direction du renseignement militaire. It was created by Socialist Interior Minister Pierre Joxe in 1992, after the Gulf War, to centralize military intelligence information.
DPSD: Directorate for Defense Protection and Security – Direction de la protection et de la sécurite de la défense. It is a military intelligence agency, charged with conducting counter-espionage.
BRGE: Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Brigade – Brigade de renseignement et de guerre électronique.
ANSSI: French Network and Information Security Agency – Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information.
DCPJ: Judicial Police – Direction centrale de la police judiciaire.
CNCIS: National Commission for the Control of Security Interceptions – Commission nationale de contrôle des interceptions de sécurité.