France's Spy Agency Looking for a Few Good Men
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}France's international spy agency is reportedly looking for a few good men.
The country's secretive spy organization, the DGSE, is recruiting hundreds of people and has received a budget boost despite tight economic times to better thwart increasingly worrisome threats like terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the Daily Mail reports.
The agency has also honed its image as well with its first-ever spokesman and a new website, the newspaper reports.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The move follows recent hostage situations abroad, bomb scares at Paris' Eiffel Tower and ongoing fallout from WikiLeaks' publication of secret U.S. diplomatic cables. France is also set to ban face-covering Islamic veils, which has drawn threats from Al Qaeda and Muslim extremists.
The DGSE changes have been long in coming, the newspaper reports, as part of France's efforts to beef up its network of intelligence operatives as called for in a top-to-bottom security review completed in 2008.