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Toute la vie politique du président François Mitterrand a été marquée par sa relation méfiante avec les services secrets et le renseignement français. En 1982, contre toutes les règles républicaines, le chef de l'État décide de créer la cellule anti-terroriste de l'Élysée, source de complications majeures durant son double septennat... Réalisateur : David Korn-Brzoza.

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Count Alexandre de Marenches, erstwhile head of the French external intelligence agency, or SDECE (Service For External Documentation And Counter-Intelligence) as it was then known, named Kao as one of the 'five great intelligence chiefs of the 1970s'. About Mr.Kao, whom he knew well and admired, the Count remarked: “  What a fascinating mix of physical and mental elegance! What accomplishments! What friendships! And, yet so shy of talking about himself, his accomplishments and his friends." ” Alexandre praised the way Kao had build up R&AW into a professional intelligence organisation and made it play a key role to change the strategic face of the Indian Subcontinent within a span of three years of R&AWs formation