Chapter Four
SDECE – Action Service Headquarters, Paris – August 1973
La Piscine was the informal name for the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage, France's external intelligence gathering and covert operations organisation. Nicknamed 'the pool' because of its close proximity to the swimming pool belonging to the French Swimming Federation, its actual address is on the Boulevard Mortier, on the 20th Arrondissement in Paris.
But even within this most secret of establishments in the French capital, there is another address that is even more covert. This belongs to the Action Service of the French intelligence agency and is based out of an old Fort at Noisy-le-Sec, a fifteen minute drive away from SDECE headquarters.
From here, the spies, agents and 'hard men' of t
