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[email protected] 1 C100 C100 M80 C100 M80 N75 M100 J100 N100 R0 V158 B224 R0 V68 B148 R0 V18 B61 R226 V0 B26 R26 V23 B27 Web : #009EE0 Web : #004494 Web : #00123D Web : #E2001A Web : #1A171B ■ General presentation p. 4 “This fall, fiction comes to life at the Cité des Sciences et ■ Exhibition plan p. 5 de l’Industrie. Close your eyes and imagine finding yourself ■ Interview with the staff all of a sudden plunged into the heart of the intelligence Contents of The Bureau p. 10 world today. In the role of a case officer, you will be in ■ In connection with the exhibition p. 13 charge of a mission that will sweep you into a unique story A word from ■ Glossary p. 15 of espionage. It all starts with what seems to be a low- ■ Project team p. 16 intensity nuclear test abroad. What unfolds next is for you the president ■ Partners p. 17 to experience in an original exhibition at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. For the first time, French intelli- gence agencies, for which discretion is second nature, This exhibition is part of the programming series agreed to lend their support to a presentation of this Crossroads / Science where you do not expect it. magnitude. As a result, the visitor’s experience is as close This editorial focus brings together exhibitions as can be to the reality of those who work in intelligence whose subject does not appear at first glance to professions today.” be scientific or technical, but which lead there in one way or another, be it in a straight line or, Bruno Maquart, more often, in a roundabout way.