He was succeeded in 1985 by Maurice Schmitt. He was now appointed &lt;a href="Directorate-General%20for%20External%20Security"&gt;Overseas Intelligence ("Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure" / DGSE)&lt;/a&gt; by President Mitterrand. The appointment came amidst widesparead calls for reform of the service in the wake of the Rainbow Warrior affair which had triggered the resignation of his predecessor in the role, Pierre Lacoste. Imbot reorganised and modernised the DGSE, also reinstating the 11th Shock Parachute Regiment which had been dissolved back in 1963.