 Following the defeat of France in 1940, the Vichy France regime's intelligence service was organized within the "Centre d’information gouvernemental" (CIG), under the direction of Admiral François Darlan.Under the command of Colonel Louis Rivet, head of the Deuxième Bureau since 1936, they set up the "Bureau des Menées Antinationales" (BMA, the "Bureau of Anti-national Activities"), officially an organization opposing Communist activities and resistance efforts and accepted by the Germans under the terms of the armistice.Meanwhile, on 1 July 1940, the Free French government-in-exile in London created its own intelligence service.