CAB1
| Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Térritoire (DGST) |
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| Formed | 1973 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Morocco |
| Headquarters | Forest of Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Rabat suburb, Morocco |
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| Parent agency | DGSN |
The Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance; Arabic: مديرية مراقبة التراب الوطني, Mudīriyyat Murāqabat al-Turāb al-Waṭaniy, literally, "Directorate of Surveillance of the National Territory"; commonly referred to as the DGST or the DST), is the internal intelligence agency of the Moroccan state. It is tasked with the monitoring of potentially subversive domestic activities.
Prior to 2005, it was known as the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST).
The DST emerged from the CAB1, the counter-subversion unit or political police department of the DGSN (Direction Général de Surveillance du Térritoire), which is the state police body of Morocco that was created in May 1956.
In May 1956, the CAB1 began as the 7th arrondissement of the Police in Derb Baladia, Casablanca, and was headed by Houssine Seghir, a plumber in Mers-Sultan and ex-member of a Casablanca-based resistance movement.p19 At the time the DGSN was directe by Mohammed Laghzioui, a prominent member of the Istiqlal party. After Laghzioui left the DGSN, the CAB1 was formed under Mohammed Oufkir with consultancy from French and American intelligence technicians.
After the international outrage that followed the assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka, the CAB1 was formally dissolved in October 1967. However it continued to exist as a secret unit of the DGSN. In 1973, the DST was officially created and Ahmed Dlimi became its director.
The CAB1 was implicated in the abduction of political opponent Mehdi Ben Barka in France. Ahmed Boukhari, a former agent of the CAB1, revealed that the operation was masterminded by Mohammed Achaachi, Ahmed Dlimi, Oufkir and executed with the collaboration of corrupt French policemen and some French gangsters.
The DST is mired in many torture allegations and scandals. As early as 2002 it operated the Temara interrogation centre, a black site for extraordinary renditions and interrogations on behalf of the United States. After the 2003 Casablanca bombings, the DST became involved in controversial interrogation methods to obtain confessions from suspects. After the 2011 Arab spring protest the secret detention centre is said to have been relocated to the Ain Aouda secret prison. Additionally, it has been revealed that the United States paid Morocco US $20 million to build a secret detention centre sometime in 2004–2006.
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