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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/20/the-french-connection-how-the-cia-recruits-its-assassins/

Having watched informed videos here, here, here, here, here, here and here on the recent attempted assassination of former POTUS Trump, I am a little surprised that none of them referred to this attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle in Hollywood’s’ The Day of the Jackal, where the hired assassin misses, because de Gaulle, like Trump, turned his head at the last second.

That is not that clip’s only relevance; the way the fictional jackal prepared his shot is much more professional than the way Trump’s would-be assassin lined up Trump for his head shot. This is not to speculate, as Wikipedia do, on the motivations that drove Thomas Crooks and his associates to emulate Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley Junior or, for that matter, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to do what they did, but to begin examining the institutional and other forces that facilitate the CIA, MI6, the Gestapo and similar groups to recruit their thugs in France, Ukraine, South East Asia, North Africa and Latin America.

As with The Day of the Jackal, so also does our story begin in Paris with the OAS, the de Gaulle family and the fall of France, which left the Gestapo with the unenviable task of keeping 41 million French citizens in line at a time when Hitler was devoting most of his resources to slicing and dicing Ukraine, the Baltics and Russia. As the Gestapo in Paris scratched their Teutonic heads at this conundrum, they had the excellent fortune to be visited by career criminal Henri Chamberlin, aka Henri Lafont, who was one of the first French men to offer his services to the Reich. Lafont was quickly promoted to chief of the now notorious police department located at 93, rue Lauriston, where he gathered around him a team of professional criminals, who were soon augmented by corrupt police officers and the scum of the North African Brigade, the dregs of Corsica, which France had previously used to keep Algérie française in line.

Lafont, together with corrupt copper Pierre Bonny and former French football captain Alexandre Vilaplane, set up the Carlingue, the Gestapo’s French auxiliaries, who were utter savages. That is because the Carlingue were motivated solely by money and an insatiable lust for rape, plunder and pillage. The Gestapo, with bigger fish to fry, were quite happy to give them free rein to rob and rape as they pleased, as long as they also arrested, tortured and murdered French resistance fighters, Jews and similar folk.

One of the Bonny Lafont group’s major catches was French Resistance leader Geneviève de Gaulle, General de Gaulle’s niece, who was held by the Gestapo as a bargaining chip until VE Day. The three treacherous musketeers of Bonny, Lafont and Vilaplane were, by then, long dead, having been stupidly (or conveniently) shot by a French firing squad on 27 December 1944, thereby allowing them to take many secrets of French treachery to the grave with them.

One of those was the role of the Corsican mafia and the North African Brigade in their collaboration and how those two groups subsequently set up shop in Latin America and South East Asia, where Hollywood later immortalised them in The French Connection, a fictional thriller based on the real life activities of those CIA connected French collaborators.

Although France’s mainland Maquis deserve their own article, Indochina’s Mèo Maquis is of particular note because it was led by General Vang Pao, a leading Laotian Hmong (the Hmong were formerly known by the exonym Mèo).

Having fought for Free France against the Japanese in the first IndoChina war, Vang led the Hmong against the Viet Minh in the Second IndoChina war and then against the Viet Cong and Pathet Lao in the Third IndoChina war. As much of the fighting occurred in the Hmong’s home turf of the strategically vital Central Highlands, the Hmong were very effective proxies of the CIA who, true to form, later betrayed the lot of them. When, following the Japanese surrender, the Yanks allowed the French roll back into Saigon, the Corsican mafia had already paved the way for greater CIA involvement, especially from Dien Bien Phu onwards. For our purposes, however, it is important to note that this vital collaboration would not have happened without the input of the Corsican mafia, who were also of great benefit to the CIA in their Afghan and Latin American drug dealing operations, which spectacularly hit the headlines when the CIA’s drug money directly funded the CIA’s Nicaraguan Contras.

Klaus Barbie, aka the Butcher of Lyons, who “served” with the SS in Vichy France during the War and with the CIA in Latin America after it, would agree with former USMC big wig and notorious CIA sponsored drug runner Ollie North that intelligence agents like them must recruit the (Corsican mafia) scum of the earth, even as gentler souls like us may feel actual recruiters like them are also the scum of the earth.

But Barbie is not the only SS or Gestapo officer worth a shout out. Let’s skip past folk like Latvian national hero and notorious Nazi collaborator Herberts Cukurs, whom Mossad assassinated for his role in the murder of over 60,000 Latvian Jews and focus on Hitler’s General Reinhard Gehlen, who developed a formidable intelligence network throughout Nazi occupied Eastern Europe, which he willingly surrendered at war’s end to the CIA, which led them from then up to and including this very day.

Although Ukraine, like France before it, has good reason to paper over its Nazi connections we, for our part, must guard against Nazi contagion. Take, for example, the Azovs’ surrender at Mariupol and ask why all those meatheads were covered from head to toe in Nazi tattoos. What strange cult makes hundreds of Ukrainian men and women brand themselves with full-body Nazi tattoos? Whatever one thinks of tattoos, it is indisputable that having Hitler and Bandera tattooed all over your body creates needless problems if you venture far from your Nazi billet.

The answer why these knuckle draggers adorn themselves thus brings us back to the French Connection and the fictional hit on de Gaulle. Not only has French intelligence been to the forefront in recruiting these scumbags for service in Ukraine, Syria and other arenas, but they have learned a lot from their Gestapo teachers and those who preceded them.

Lesson one is you need characters like Bonny, Lafont and Vang, who can recruit the semi-literate scum of the earth to man your amoral army. Lesson two is that you need these Contras to be funded off the books, usually with drugs but also, as seen in Vichy France and more recently in Mariupol with the Azovs, with every imaginable scam going, from bio labs to meth labs, cold calling and simple extortion of Jews, Russians or whoever else is deemed a legitimate target for a shakedown. Lesson three is you must bamboozle these pliable thugs with some nonsense about Bandera, Hitler and an Assad-free Caliphate if you are going to get them to effectively perform their role.

And, though Vichy France gives us a good insight into how the CIA operates, the Bible is likewise helpful. Forget Judas Iscariot and go right back to the second book of Joshua where Rahab, a prostitute, takes a break from selling herself to sell out her country to the Jews in return for a pot of gold and safe passage for herself and her exotic assortment of pimps. Though Rahab’s reward, much like Balzac’s La Cousine Bette‘s, is enhanced social status under the Jewish Reich, one must today wonder if the pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers of Vichy France, and of the Corsican and Azov mafia make society’s best social anchors. Though few of us would think so, we all must agree that the Nazis, the CIA and their various offshoots continue to use such flotsam as effectively as the Jews of old used Rahab and Jericho’s other floozeys to the detriment of those, like Charles and Geneviève de Gaulle, who upheld the honour and integrity of France to themselves, to their compatriots, to the world, to us and to posterity.