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The gradual transition towards the information society changed the nature of the strategic issues at stake in aggressive uses of information. The first to understand this were the intelligence agencies of the young Soviet republic which, after 1917, sought to popularize communist ideas by infiltrating Western intellectual circles to create echo chambers for their cause. The Second World War, the Cold War and the Vietnam War established a new kind of warfare, the information war. The wars of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century confirmed the increasingly close relationship between the conduct of classic military warfare and the orchestration of information wars in increasingly complex situations, as the situation in Syria currently illustrates. The world of intelligence, originally firmly established at the forefront of this new pattern in the organization of conflict, has been shaken by the subversive dynamics set in motion by terrorist groups and by politico-religious movements seeking to undermine the foundations of democracy. In France, investigations of the economic dimension of the information war have been few and far between and have not given any in-depth attention to the effect of political influence on its strategic goals.