SDECE organization

“This Akir guy was responsible for the death of Ben Berka. Case solved all the way around. He's now dead. Everybody's happy. In addition, interesting timing because we're in 1972 now, President Pompidou had just cleaned house of the SDECE. H…”

“conducted targeted assassinations wherever their orders dictated, including inside of France. A French intelligence officer assigned to the SDECE and liaison to the CIA stated that in this period, liquidations were an almost daily routine. …”

“a covert unit operating in concert with the Action Services of the French External Intel Services, which we came across these guys in our first Gladio book, the SDECE. They were basically integral to managing the stay-behind units in France…”

“Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. Beisner was associated with was a Spanish…”

“named Captain Paul Osiris, A-U-S-S-A-R-E-S-S-E-S, was given command of the unit in July of 1947. Osiris had an extensive Jetburg, J-E-D-B-U-R-G-H, which is the special forces background, working behind enemy lines in World War II.…”

“a covert unit operating in concert with the Action Services of the French External Intel Services, which we came across these guys in our first Gladio book, the SDECE. They were basically integral to managing the stay-behind units in France…”

“each received up to eight years. The SDECE chief, Paul Jacquier, was fired. Prime Minister Pompidou, Interior Minister Roger Fry, and de Gaulle's son-in-law, a member of the parliament, Pierre Lac Marchand, were all blasted by de Gaulle. Th…”

“appearing to work for both the CIA and the SDECE. His loyalties lay within the CIA. He was a personal friend of Henry Kissinger's. Legros was a man the CIA assigned to snoop on the UN Secretary General Das Hammerskjold as well, who, by the …”

“Two men hopped out, flashed their police badges, and asked Ben Barca to join them. There were already three men in the car. A airport chief, Antoine Lopez, French narcotics lieutenant, Louis Chargeon, and his assistant, Roger Bicoit. An age…”

“once worked for the Galen organization in West Germany and for the French SDECE. Gosh, I wonder who that could have been. Although there could have been many candidates, the killer one logically would think was Skorzeny or a member from his…”

“Wybot undertook highly classified covert operations against FLN bases of support. Wybot's secret war was focused mainly against international arms dealers supplying the FLN with small arms, ammunitions, and explosives. He ruthlessly carried…”

“imprisoned for his complicity in the Ben Barca affair was highly valued by the Americans. The CIA had gotten him out of jail by blackmailing a SDECE and French politician through various people in the French government. The French spy who b…”