Les Etats-Unis n'ont jamais cessé d'espionner la France

Les Etats-Unis n'ont jamais cessé d'espionner la France

The cries of outrage pushed by some European leaders designating Americans as vile spies betraying their allies challenge. Oh, yes, it's the least they could do in the meantime, perhaps a common European position, which will, however, find it difficult to engage in retaliation. But that is another story. No, what challenges is the deep stupor of these leaders. Of two things. Either they have not looked at the history of European-American relations since 1945, they make fun of European citizens by displaying mock indignation. For in fact, the American espionage in Europe and the world is well known. It is not in fact the first time the press echoed such actions. Everyone knows it. For decades, the United States have a constant monitoring of the world and, in some cases, the Europeans even call for it. The global network of listening Echelon is the best known example. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) poses microphones everywhere and recruit agents from within European governments is not new. The journalist Vincent Nouzille very well told all this in his book Secrets so well kept? The records of the White House and the CIA in France and Presidents 1958-1981 (Fayard, 2009). We learn that in 1945, especially from the return of General de Gaulle to power in 1958, the United States will engage in intense espionage against France, but also many other countries in the world. Touted include the French foreign policy and the work on the atomic bomb. In February 1960, their aircraft took off from Libya to make withdrawals from the radioactive cloud emitted during the first French nuclear test. In the 1960s, a French military aircraft entered the airspace to take pictures of the nuclear plant Pierrelatte in the Rhone valley, and, facing the French protest, the United States will simply express some regrets. The advent of observation and eavesdropping satellites from 1961 increased U.S. intelligence capabilities. Satellites such as the KH-11, at a price of $ 1.5 billion, take pictures with a resolution of 10 cm. Magnum satellites intercept more than 100 million communications per month. Manna recovered even exhibited. EVERYONE SPY EVERYONE In 1995, President Bill Clinton gave his consent to the public disclosure of hundreds of photos taken by these satellites in France or elsewhere. Shameless or mood. With a military space budget of $ 40 billion of which more than half is devoted to intelligence, it is not surprising that the information retrieved overflows. Another example: One day, while I was in a meeting at the Pentagon, a Navy officer was suddenly directed to me to tell me in the hollow of the ear: "The test that you come to realize your M4 missile worked perfectly. "The great American ears worked well. My friend Vasily Mishin, who was the head of the Soviet lunar program, told me once that American spies were everywhere in the USSR, even in the bunker to launch the Soviet lunar rocket from Baikonur. The KGB knew that one of the Russian technicians betrayed to the Americans but has never been confused. Confirmation would happen thirty years later, the Cold War ended. While Mishin sold at Sotheby's in New York, the daily newspaper that he had held in the 1960s, a man gave him a photo of him in the bunker at Baikonur by the Russian agent in the service of the United States . The man disappeared as quickly as it came. Thirty years later, the CIA bragged. It was a good war. Do not be naive, everyone spy everyone. And, let's be realistic and honest, all countries are of espionage and condemn. If the Cold War is over, this is not to say that we have entered a world of perfect peace. Yesterday, the military and political espionage against the USSR existed. Today, it has become primarily political and economic, with many players to watch. And France, by Directorate General for External Security (DGSE) intermediary involved in this concert. Today, Americans denounce the activities of Chinese cyber espionage and do not hesitate to do the same thing with the world. For my part, I spent thirty years of my life searching and retrieving information on U.S. nuclear weapons, which does not prevent me from getting into bed with me the Americans to exchange information on Soviet missiles. That policies are surprised is amazing. They protest is normal. In any case, there is something that we have long known, is that the world is not all white or all black, and he is perpetually at war. The only problem is that we do not know differentiate our friends from our enemies.