Direction centrale des renseignements généraux

The Direction centrale des renseignements généraux ( DCRG ; German: Central Intelligence Service ), often called Renseignements généraux ( RG ), was a department of the Police nationale in France . It existed from 1907 to 2008 and was subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior .

management

Directors of the DCRG:
Surname	Term of office
Jean France	1907-1913
Auguste Moreau	1913-1917
Antoine Pierrette	1917-1927
Charles Allec	1927-1933
Paulin Profizy	1933-1937
Jacques Chevreux	1937-1938
Léon Blanc	1938-1941
André Boutemy	1941-1943
Paul Escandé	1943-1944
Germain Vidal	1944-1951
Georges Moulins	1951-1955
Jean-Emile Vié	1955-1961
Jules Plettner	1961-1963
Henri Boucoiran	1963-1968
Jacques Lenoir	1968-1971
Louis Morel	1971-1972
Eugène Camata	1972-1974
Marc Buchet	1974-1977
Raymond Cham	1977-1981
Paul Roux	1981-1983
Pierre Chassigneux	1983-1986
Philippe Massoni	1986-1988
Jacques Fournet	1988-1990
Jean-Jacques Pascal	1990-1992
Yves Bertrand	1992-2004
Pascal Mailhos	2004-2006
Joël Bouchité	2006-2008

history

The establishment of the service in 1907 took place in a time of tense political climate, in the Third Republic . The tasks at that time were the supervision of various currents of the opposition : royalists , Bonapartists , anarchists and other revolutionary currents of socialists .
In 1941 the Vichy regime also founded a service of the same name.
On July 1, 2008, it was merged with the Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) to form the new Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI).

assignment

Their task was to “research and centralize information with the aim of informing the government”.

construction

The DCRG was organized in four sub-divisions:

• Research Sub-Directorate
• Subdivision of Analysis, Foresight and Social Facts
• Sub-Directorate of Resources
• Sub-division of races and games of chance.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historique des Renseignements Généraux. (No longer available online.) French Home Office , July 17, 2006, archived from the original on June 4, 2008 ; Retrieved June 30, 2008 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur. French Ministry of the Interior , 2008, accessed April 10, 2013 (French). 
3. ↑ A decree of January 16, 1995 describes: «la mission de la Direction centrale des renseignements généraux est la recherche et la centralization des renseignements destinés à informer le gouvernement; elle participe à la defense des intérêts fondamentaux; elle concourt à la mission générale de sécurité intérieure. Elle est chargée de la surveillance des établissements de jeux et des champs de course. »