In July 2015, the government got rid of three security chiefs, including the heads of internal security and counter-intelligence, and the chief of presidential security.
Frank Gaad Richard Thomass): Beeman's boss and the head of the FBI counter-intelligence office.
He worked for the Special Operations Executive, had links with Bletchley Park, the codebreaking headquarters, and ended the war as deputy head of Section V – counter-intelligence.
It needed to be treated with great care, as Sir Mark Allen, former head of MI6's counter-intelligence branch and one of its more maverick voices, was keen to stress.
Later, Fabián Escalante, who served for many years as the head of Cuban counter-intelligence, detailed the case against Morgan, claiming that he had been a longtime American intelligence operative — a "chameleon" — who, in 1960, had attempted to "organize, for the C.I.A., a band of counter-revolutionaries in the Escambray".
The head of the counter-intelligence service, Bernard Squarcini, admitted yesterday that the investigations had taken place and that Mr Sénat had been identified by his agents as Le Monde's mole.
One of its most notorious "assets" was the provisionals' head of counter-intelligence, the head of its internal security hunter Freddie Scappaticci.
In recent months France was already seen by its head of internal intelligence as the country most under threat from jihadi terrorism.
Lebanon's head of internal intelligence has been killed in a massive car bomb attack in central Beirut.
The Lebanese cabinet has been holding emergency talks a day after a powerful car bomb killed the head of internal intelligence and seven others.
In 1961, for instance, it turned out that its head of counter-intelligence, a veteran of the Nazi special forces, was actually an agent of the KGB.
