Formation and Cold War On May 16, 1956, the
General Directorate for National Security (; DGSN) was founded as the country's national police force and was modeled after the French
National Police. Counter-subversion was led by the 7th police district in
Casablanca and was led by Houssine Seghir, a
plumber in the
Mers Sultan district and ex-member of an anti-colonial resistance movement in Casablanca. In 1958, the DGSN was expanded with seven counter-subversion forces labeled "cabinets". The most notorious of these cabinets was
Cabinet no. 1 or CAB 1, which was the cabinet charged with political affairs. Among those cabinets was
Cabinet no. 7, known as CAB 7 or "the Seventh", which was tasked with interrogations. In 2001, Boukhari implicated the CAB 1,
Mossad, and the French
SDECE in the 1965 disappearance of
Mehdi Ben Barka. In 1972, following two coup attempts against King
Hassan II, the King dissolved the DGSN's "cabinets" including the CAB 1. On January 12, 1973, following the dismantling of the CAB 1 a year prior, a
Royal Dahir was signed by King Hassan II creating the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (; DST). The same day, a military foreign intelligence service was created, the
General Directorate for Studies and Documentation (; DGED), also modeled after the French
SDECE. In January 2004, the DST led to the arrest of three underage girls who were planning to commit suicide bombing attacks in Casablanca after information received from a local informant. After the
2015 Paris attacks masterminded by Abaaoud, the DGST also reportedly informed French authorities about Abaaoud's whereabouts and gave information about the Belgian cell behind the attacks. with Abdellatif Hammouchi, the Director-General of the DGST and DGSN, in 2019 Prior to the
2016 Berlin truck attack, the DGST contacted the German
Federal Intelligence Service (BND) regarding a terror cell in Berlin which included the perpetrator, Anis Amri. The DGST contacted the BND four times about Amri, who was named and marked as dangerous by the DGST, and provided information regarding his associates and links to ISIS alongside photographs of him. In 2021, the DGST announced that they had dismantled 213 terrorist cells since 2002. On 24 October 2022,
Morocco and
Germany have agreed to expand security cooperation to halt organized crime, including
terrorism,
human trafficking,
Cybercrime, and
fraud. On 8 September 2023,
an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8
Mw hit
Marrakesh-Safi region of Morocco. DGST along with
DGSN has announced it will contribute MAD 50 million to Special Fund for Managing Earthquake Effects. ==Controversy==