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...psychiatrist, but feared it would hurt his career. He was obsessed with producing a dramatic dope bust that involved trapping cocaine traffickers from South America and France in one place. To make his case, he relied heavily on a longtime DEA informant, a French Canadian who calls himself Claude Picault...
Last April, Picault helped Bario set up a raid in Mexico City that netted 33 lbs. of Colombian cocaine. Bario turned in 22 lbs. to the DEA, but let Picault keep the rest. Bario insisted later to his second wife and his lawyer that he was following standard procedure, allowing an informant to have some confiscated cocaine as a bonus to keep him loyal...
...Picault, however, had a different story and in September told it to the DEA in Paris. Bario, he said, had allowed him to keep the coke in order to split the profits from its sale. DEA investigators eavesdropped as Picault set up a meeting with Bario in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and they were on hand as $4,000 in marked bills was transferred. A few days later, on Oct. 7, they listened in on another meeting between Picault and Bario at a San Antonio hotel. Shortly after Bario accepted $5,000 from Picault, agents arrested...
...most important art show was held not in a museum or gallery but at a county fair. In the French Riviera village of Vallauris, prize examples of the town's two industries, perfume and pottery, were on exhibition, and among the pottery makers, between Pernin and Picault in the catalogue, stood the name of a newcomer-Pablo Picasso...
...18th Century only two French experts, Jean Louis Hacquin and one Picault (both employed by Louis XVI), knew the secret of transferring a valuable painting from a rotted canvas or badly warped panel to a new backing, a very delicate operation in which all the original paint is left intact...
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