08-12-2011, 09:20 PM
As I somewhat cynically expected, the initial enthusiasm from others about the book on the first page of this thread fizzles out ... no-one except Joel seems to have bothered to read it. Nonetheless, one extra snippet recently gleaned re Jean Violet.
First off, anyone (and I mean anyone) should be interested in the most notorious covert operator for France and for the Vatican from the fifties until the eighties, deeply involved in a multi-million franc swindle (sniffer planes), and yet who has NO wikipedia entry in any language ...
Second up, I wrote in the intro to the third edition: "As for [the death of] Jean Violet, no-one has ever known ..."
Well, now we do - he died in late 2000.
His son Paul Violet, born in 1950 and "gaulliste de gauche depuis toujours", Assistant Mayor of Paris under Chirac (1983-95) and Socialist Party member since 2005, rose to his father's defence in a response to a 2001 article which dated his father's death to the end of the previous year: see http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-politiq...17/0/57829 and http://www.lepoint.fr/archives/article.php/58840.
Violet junior, a previous employee of companies involved in the sniffer plane scandal and one-time alleged business contact of de Bonvoisin's, was allegedly one of the bag-men in "l'affaire des marchés publics des lycées d'Ile-de-France" (school public tenders in the Parisian region), one of several corruption scandals under Mayor Chirac, later prosecuted by French judicial authorities. For the allegation concerning the involvement of Violet junior, see http://didier.cardon37.over-blog.com/art...97139.html.
The main man in this scandal concerning covert funding of most of the French political parties was Michel Roussin, in charge of security at the Prime Minister's Office Matignon in 1972-74 before notably serving as chef de cabinet to SDECE chief Alexandre de Marenches in 1977-81 and chef de service at the Defence Ministry in 1981, later serving as chef de cabinet under Jacques Chirac at the Paris Town Hall then at Matignon in 1984-88 before becoming directeur de cabinet under Chirac at the Paris Town Hall in 1988-93 and briefly serving as Development and Cooperation Minister from 1993-94.
Roussin was convicted of complicity and concealing corruption in "l'affaire des marchés publics des lycées d'Ile-de-France" in 2005, a conviction confirmed in 2006; Roussin's final appeal was rejected in 2008.
See Paul Violet talking about (some of) his past history whilst supporting Anne Hidalgo, First Deputy Mayor of Paris (since 2001, under Bertrand Delanoë) and Socialist candidate for Mayor of the the XVth arrondissement of Paris in 2008 here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4dl76_...t_politics
"Paul Violet est un homme de conviction", says the video. Ah, comme les Français disent, mon coeur bat à gauche ...
Probably only of interest to Joel; the others are busy chasing down links proving Breivik was CIA or a Martian ... :moon:
First off, anyone (and I mean anyone) should be interested in the most notorious covert operator for France and for the Vatican from the fifties until the eighties, deeply involved in a multi-million franc swindle (sniffer planes), and yet who has NO wikipedia entry in any language ...
Second up, I wrote in the intro to the third edition: "As for [the death of] Jean Violet, no-one has ever known ..."
Well, now we do - he died in late 2000.
His son Paul Violet, born in 1950 and "gaulliste de gauche depuis toujours", Assistant Mayor of Paris under Chirac (1983-95) and Socialist Party member since 2005, rose to his father's defence in a response to a 2001 article which dated his father's death to the end of the previous year: see http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-politiq...17/0/57829 and http://www.lepoint.fr/archives/article.php/58840.
Violet junior, a previous employee of companies involved in the sniffer plane scandal and one-time alleged business contact of de Bonvoisin's, was allegedly one of the bag-men in "l'affaire des marchés publics des lycées d'Ile-de-France" (school public tenders in the Parisian region), one of several corruption scandals under Mayor Chirac, later prosecuted by French judicial authorities. For the allegation concerning the involvement of Violet junior, see http://didier.cardon37.over-blog.com/art...97139.html.
The main man in this scandal concerning covert funding of most of the French political parties was Michel Roussin, in charge of security at the Prime Minister's Office Matignon in 1972-74 before notably serving as chef de cabinet to SDECE chief Alexandre de Marenches in 1977-81 and chef de service at the Defence Ministry in 1981, later serving as chef de cabinet under Jacques Chirac at the Paris Town Hall then at Matignon in 1984-88 before becoming directeur de cabinet under Chirac at the Paris Town Hall in 1988-93 and briefly serving as Development and Cooperation Minister from 1993-94.
Roussin was convicted of complicity and concealing corruption in "l'affaire des marchés publics des lycées d'Ile-de-France" in 2005, a conviction confirmed in 2006; Roussin's final appeal was rejected in 2008.
See Paul Violet talking about (some of) his past history whilst supporting Anne Hidalgo, First Deputy Mayor of Paris (since 2001, under Bertrand Delanoë) and Socialist candidate for Mayor of the the XVth arrondissement of Paris in 2008 here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4dl76_...t_politics
"Paul Violet est un homme de conviction", says the video. Ah, comme les Français disent, mon coeur bat à gauche ...
Probably only of interest to Joel; the others are busy chasing down links proving Breivik was CIA or a Martian ... :moon: