Title : Counter-espionage, memoirs of a DST boss - Yves Bonnet - book

Summary :

In November 1982, Yves Bonnet was chosen by François Mitterrand to succeed Marcel Chalet as head of the DST, the legendary Directorate of Territorial Surveillance. For nearly three years, he would run the "big house" on Rue des Saussaies. Upon his arrival, he discovered that some departments had been monitored by Roger Wibot, the famous founder of the Service, and immediately put an end to it. In 1983, he became certain that France had a huge technological espionage network, plundering nearly 70 percent of the country's civil and military patents. Yves Bonnet did not waver and, in close collaboration with François Mitterrand, decided to expel forty-seven Soviet diplomats. A few months later, four days after the bloody anti-Turkish attack at Orly, he dismantled the ASALA network in France. Yves Bonnet launched an all-out international cooperation, multiplying contacts with the British, American, Israeli, Syrian, Iraqi, and Palestinian intelligence services, not hesitating to collaborate with Abu Liad and Georges Habache. Thanks to his "special relationships," it was he who, in the spring of 1985, obtained the release of Gilles Sydney Pérolles, the son of Gilles Perrault, kidnapped in Lebanon. But Yves Bonnet was a nuisance: he was too successful, reluctant to transform the DST into a "personal" intelligence agency. And, in July 1985, he was ousted... Written with vitriol, rich in revelations, "Counter-espionage" is a landmark book on the world of intelligence.

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