Direction de la surveillance du territoire

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The Direction de la surveillance du territoire ( DST ; German Direction of Territorial Surveillance ) was France's civil domestic intelligence service from 1944 to 2008 and was subordinate to the Interior Minister . He resembled the German protection of the constitution . The last legal basis was an ordinance from 1982.

On July 1, 2008, it was merged with the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux (DCRG, RG) to form the new Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI).

assignment

Directors of the DST:
Surname Term of office
Roger Wybot 1944-1959
Jean-Gabriel Eriau 1959-1961
Daniel Marius Doustin 1961-1964
Tony Roche 1964-1967
Jeane Rochet 1967-1972
Henri Briard 1972-1974
Jacques Chartron 1974-1975
Marcel Chalet 1975-1982
Yves Bonnet 1982-1985
Rémy Pautrat 1985-1986
Bernard Gérard 1986-1990
Jacques Fournet 1990-1993
Philippe Parant 1993-1997
Jean-Jacques Pascal 1997-2002
Pierre de Bousquet de Florian 2002-2007
Bernard Squarcini 2007-2008

organization

The DST was structured regionally and had five main departments in Paris and seven regional directorates in Lille , Rennes , Bordeaux , Marseille , Lyon , Metz and Tours . There were also four DST outposts in Guyane , Réunion and New Caledonia .

history

The DST was created in 1955 from the organizational separation of the BCRA into DST and SDECE under the de Gaulle government. The staff consisted mainly of former employees of the ST, the BCRA and parts of the Resistance .

A special feature were the DST operations in Great Britain, especially in London, which were not directed against England, but against the Islamists who worked there for a long time. The nickname for London in the DST was Londistan because it was believed that the British were exclusively fixated on the IRA and therefore turned a blind eye to Islamist hate preachers.

The last director of the DST, Bernard Squarcini , is also director of the successor organization DCRI.

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