General Directorate of Studies and Documentation
| Direction Générale des Études et de la Documentation المديرية العامة للدراسات والمستندات | |
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| Formed | January 12, 1973 |
| Headquarters | Rabat, Morocco |
| Employees | 4,000 (2003 estimate) |
| Annual budget | 1,08 billion dirham (2015) |
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| Parent department | Administration for National Defense |
The General Directorate of Studies and Documentation (Arabic: المديرية العامة للدراسات والمستندات, French: Direction Générale des Études et de la Documentation; DGED) is the foreign intelligence agency of Morocco, under authority of the Administration for National Defense. It is officially tasked with maintaining national security and the safety of national institutions.
The current general director of the DGED is Mohammed Yassine Mansouri, who studied with Mohammed VI at the Royal College and previously ran Maghreb Arabe Press. Mansouri was appointed to the position by Mohammed VI on February 14, 2005. The agency collaborates often with its internal counterpart, the DGST.