General Langlade de Montgros takes over as head of French intelligence

French intelligence has a new boss.

General Jacques Langlade de Montgros was appointed head of French military intelligence (DRM), after the ousting of the previous director Eric Vidaud, who was notably blamed for the shortcomings of his services on the Russian invasion in Ukraine, a we learned on Wednesday.

The appointment of this Saint-Cyrien, former commander of the 1st parachute hussar regiment (2010-2012), confirms information published earlier on Wednesday by the weekly

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A veteran of intelligence

The closed world of intelligence is no stranger to General Langlade de Montgros, who was assigned from 2007 to 2010 to the reserved office of the cabinet of the Minister of Defense, in charge of relations with the intelligence services of the ministry, at the time of the creation of the National Intelligence Coordination (2008).

The officer then held the position of head of the intelligence office of the Center for Planning and Command of Operations (CPCO) from 2015 to 2017, before being appointed to the operations - international relations cell of the cabinet of the Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parley.

He also commanded the 11th parachute brigade in Toulouse from 2019 to 2021 before heading the European Union mission in the Central African Republic until February 2022. He has since been an inspector at the Army Inspectorate of Earth.

The new director will have to take charge of the DRM transformation project launched more than a year ago, aimed at adapting military intelligence to the intensification of crises and to the exponential mass of data to be processed.

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