The secret spy notebook

Notes of French intelligence, General Philip Rondoa, which was partially released early Sunday newspaper "Liberation", reveal that France was not in the interest of the arrest of Croatian General Ante Gotovina, indicted for crimes against humanity before the ICTY, as the light would not come out of their intelligence resources service with the Croatian special units.

The report is Rondo, at the time advisor for intelligence and special operations Minister of Defense Michel Alio-Mari wrote the Élysée Palace 2005th , and which carries the "Liberation", states that officers of the French intelligence service, DGSE, responsible for actions outside the country "secret were related to General Ante Gotovina, the first in Zagreb, Zadar and then" and that "one of the them in August 1995. monitored conducting operations 'Storm' in which the Croatian Army took the Krajina. "

"The tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia in search of General Ante Gotovina for events that occurred in that period," states Rondo, who feared "traces" left by the French intelligence service.

"General Gotovina is said that we will never find links that might exist during the war between him and us," Rondo says, adding that he believes "and DGSE, the French to support could be resolved if there is a serious investigation .

The note from April 2005. The Rondo writes: "My refusal to Cash catch fraud: MAM (Michel Alio-Mari) agrees."

In a document sent to the state top Rondo states that "the DGSE maintained links with the Croats from the second half of the 1991st year, and that it was the "secret mission to support the Croatian special units."

Author of the article Carl Laski, who had access to a court transcript of these notes, as in the letter that was sent Rondo Alio-Mari, said the "policy" to support this operation Croatian units, recorded under the coded name "Simond," included "training and assistance in nesmrtonosnom material, or assistance in logistics, such as vehicles, equipment, etc..

The aim of the operation was to provide intelligence and security units in the French region.

Laski said that Rondo is personally overseeing the implementation of this operation 1991st , when he was in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is not, however, certainly under whose authority was this operation done and who was familiar with it.

Silberzan Claude, Director General of the French intelligence services since 1989. year to June 1993. year, categorically rejects the possibility that his office gave support to the Croatian units in while he was on her forehead.

"These states are incorrect. While I was at the head office was not any secret mission support to the Croatian units. That would be contrary to the former policy of France, which is not supported by Croatia, neither political nor military. Until my departure from office, 1995. years, France did not support any secessionist movement in the former Yugoslavia, said "Politika" former head of the DGSE, a day Mayor Seymour, a town of 700 residents in southwestern France.

When, however, the word contact with cash, Silberzan said that they existed, as in the case of other persons of interest to intelligence.

"We had contacts with representatives of the military, both Croatia and the Serbian side, but it is in the description of our business," says the former head of intelligence.

Journalist "Liberation" says that it is possible to Silberzan was during the mission that was entrusted Rondou, because "the journey".

Rondo at the time directly depended on the cabinet defense minister, socialist Pierre Zoks, which was an advisor for special operations.

"There are people who are entrusted to a special, autonomous mission, about which even the service does not know anything, and that are perceived to be useful to France. Some kind of secret in the secret, "says the" Policy "Jean Ginel, an expert in matters of military espionage, indicating a possible explanation.

Yves Bone, who has since 1982. to 1985. was head of the French counterintelligence service DST, which operates within the French territory, believes that we should not doubt the veracity of Rondoovih notes.

"I know General Rondoa, he is reliable, you should believe that what is written is true," said Bone, who recalls that "the Croats first heard at the time when he was head of DST, a related state affairs in which he was involved his "friend in arms," Dominic Erilen, with whom Cash closer in the Foreign Legion.

Journalist "Liberation" says the memo, made between the 1999th and 2005, evidence that the French protect cash and not cooperated with Carla del Ponte and the ICTY.

In one of the notes from the secret mission Rondoa in Dubrovnik in 2003, when he met with one of his people with whom contact Croats, French intelligence says: "Cash is not delivered", and the Director of Cabinet Alio-Mari he replied: "It is in our interest. France, Laski said in the text, intended to negotiate in order to Gotovina remained at large in exchange for another accused of war crimes for which he sought the Hague tribunal, whose name is not stated.

These personal notes by Rondo kept in his Paris apartment would never saw the light of day that he became one of the main actors of "scandals Klirstrim, the largest political espionage scandal last year in France, which broke out due to conflicts in the former state between the top and current President Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. French intelligence, who was adviser to three ministers of defense, will be included as a witness in the process that opens 21st September, in which the former Prime Minister Dominique de Vilpen accused of participating in a conspiracy in order to disable Sarkozy coming to power.

Among the hundreds of pages on which the years of recording their activities in the service of a number of covert operations in which he participated over the world, were these pages that throw new light on the role of secret services in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia and the relations of big powers towards the Hague Tribunal, which, although under the seal of state secrets, find the way to the public.