French secret service in WW2

Does anybody know of any of the triumphs of the French secret service during WW2? Any info appreciated.

Try the book: *The French Secret Services* by Douglas Porch,Farrar,Straus and Giroux, New York, 1995. It discusses a number of successful French Intelligence operations both before and after the fall of France.

John Decker

Did the French have a secret service in WWII? The resistance were secret, and run from London mostly (when run from any main HQ). The milice did some covert stuff, I think, and they answered to Vichy (the more official French goverment at the time which is, I guess, where any 'official' secret service would have to answer to).

This is an interesting question. Please post any info you recieve!

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If you can read French :

Navarre Henri. Le Service de renseignements 1871-1944. Paris, Plon, 1978

Bonne lecture...

Very definitely.

The official French intelligence service continued to operate after the fall of France, under the nominal control of the 'Vichy' regime.

According to Jozef Garlitzki, _The Enigma War_:

The Polish cryptanalysts who made the original break of Enigma, and who escaped to France in 1939, continued their work against Germany at a base in unoccupied France, under control of the official French intelligence service.

They deciphered messages from covert German agents operating in unoccupied France; these agents were then arrested by the Vichy authorities.