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...lifted. The French, Italians, Russians and Turks have interpreted this to mean they can enter contractual relationships; the U.S. has not. "It would be stupid for us to be the last ones in, when everyone else is lining up to sign contracts for Iraq's reconstruction," says General Jeannou Lacaze, retired chief of staff of the French armed forces...
...Vice Admiral Lacoste, the foreign espionage chief, would have acted without orders. Among those who might have authorized the attack or allowed it to happen, the paper said, were Lacoste's superiors: General Jean-Michel Saulnier, Mitterrand's personal chief of staff when the surveillance scheme was conceived; General Jeannou Lacaze, then overall armed forces Chief of Staff; and Hernu. By most accounts, Mitterrand was not informed of the spying mission until a week after the Rainbow Warrior had been sunk. By that time the New Zealand police had arrested two French secret-service agents, Major Alain Mafart and Captain...
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