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France's DGSE rejects growing fortune teller role

By Pierre Gastineau, Pierre Januel and Franck Renaud
Reading time 3 minutes

As the world's crises increase, French government departments are increasingly calling on the DGSE foreign intelligence agency to predict the geopolitical future. A Court of Auditors' report has for the first time highlighted the service's growing irritation with this flood of requests.

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