Successive Residents-General, fearing the soldiers' tendency toward direct rule — which belied the official French myth that Tunisians continued to govern Tunisia — worked to bring the Service des Renseignements under their control, finally doing so at the end of the century.
De skiftende Residents-Generals, der frygtede soldaternes tendens til direkte styre - som modsiger den officielle franske myte, at tuneserne fortsatte med at regere Tunesien - arbejdede på at bringe service des Renseignements under deres kontrol, hvilket endelig skete i slutningen af ​​århundredet.