Communicating about Secrecy
Hare, Isabelle
Communicating about Secrecy - 2016.
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The secret services and the figure of the spy have always been an important source of inspiration in imaginative fiction. For several years, the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE, equivalent to the UK’s MI6 and the USA’s CIA) has been advocating a strategy of transparency and openness towards the public. This article analyses the DGSE’s communication on its website: how, moving from imagination to reality, does it build up its discourse on intelligence? Is the DGSE’s narrative characteristic of the French intelligence tradition, or does it draw on others, in other countries?
Communicating about Secrecy - 2016.
1
The secret services and the figure of the spy have always been an important source of inspiration in imaginative fiction. For several years, the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE, equivalent to the UK’s MI6 and the USA’s CIA) has been advocating a strategy of transparency and openness towards the public. This article analyses the DGSE’s communication on its website: how, moving from imagination to reality, does it build up its discourse on intelligence? Is the DGSE’s narrative characteristic of the French intelligence tradition, or does it draw on others, in other countries?
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