The article examines the procedural and organizational specifics of the French intelligence services as a key information and analytical mechanism in the system of ensuring France's national security. It is argued that intelligence is an integral part of the state mechanism and reflects its constitutional, legal, and socio-cultural features. The main stages in the development of the French intelligence community and the characteristic features of secret services of the French Republic are identified. The authors make a conclusion on the need to reform the intelligence institution as part of the systemic process of the national political landscape's evolution associated primarily with the increased threat to international stability and public security.
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