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France, Georgia
DGSE at heart of high-profile espionage case exposed by Georgian intel

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The Paris-based headquaters of France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency.
The Paris-based headquaters of France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency. © DGSE/AFP

The French foreign intelligence agency had this month to call back three of its officiers based in Tblisi after Georgia's State Security Service exposed the DGSE's recruitment of a key figure close to former PM Bidzina Ivanishvili, sparking a rift between the countries.

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