- Security domain
- Intelligence
- What it is
- direction générale · agency (level 3)
- Founded
- 1982
- Statutory basis
- Code de la défense, art. D3126-1 to D3126-4
- Public mandate
- Searches for and exploits intelligence relevant to national security and detects and obstructs, outside French territory, espionage activities directed against French interests.
- Acknowledged by
- dgse.gouv.fr (official site)
- Active headcount
- 7,200 (2026) official, high confidence
- Headcount source
- DGSE: qui sommes-nous
- Website
- www.dgse.gouv.fr
- Identifiers
- factbase.org/org/KY18RQBM85 · Q335827