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jpk lawyers name agents in “very disturbing” deaths

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An undated, hand-written letter outlining the abduction, torture and killing of a former Pape’ete editor was found at the home of a former French Polynesia president. Police officers found the letter in a drawer during a raid on Flosse’s home in September 2008. News of the find only emerged today. Gaston Flosse at first refused comment, according to a report from AFP, later issuing a statement labelling the allegations “scandalous.” Author of the letter is said to be Vetea Cadousteau, a former member of a secret spy cell who died in “very disturbing” circumstances, according to lawyers for a support committee of the editor, Jean-Pascal Couraud. Handwriting analysis of the letter was “inconclusive”, said laywers James Lau and Max Gatti in a statement for Soutien JPK. Further testing is needed to confirm the author of the letter of testimony, several pages long. Lawyers for Flosse, a member of the French senate, dismissed the letter as a “set up”, part of a “plot”. The

french security advisers hold back 14 documents

. . . NEWS Thirteen of 26 new national security documents involving former French president Jacques Chirac are likely to stay top secret, despite links to an inquiry involving alleged assassination. Just 11 of the documents were recommended for full release on 4 December 2008, according to last Friday’s Official Journal, a state gazette. “Partial declassification” for two further documents were made by members of the CCSDN, la Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale. A powerful advisory commission overseeing judicial inquiries and other requests for release of national defense secrets, CCSDN members recommended against the declassification of 13 documents. This compares with earlier recommendations releasing 16 of 17 documents from another dossier considered by CCSDN . All 132 recommendations from the national security commission have so far been accepted by ministers of the day. First story on the new documents appeared at a quarter to six last Friday evening, accord

more chirac papers released in affair JPK

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earlier coverage: exposing bank accounts in japan, belonging to former french president, jacques chirac, and former french polynesian president, gaston flosse. . . . NEWS RELEASE A national security commission in Paris approved declassification of 11 documents last Friday, opening new links between an alleged assassination of a former Pape’ete editor with ex-president Jacques Chirac. It is the second dossier of top secret papers to emerge from two judicial inquiries exploring growing links. Of 26, two further papers were recommended for partially declassification by La Commission consultative du secret de la défense nationale (CCSDN), a powerful advisory commission overseeing judicial inquiries and other requests for release of national defense secrets. Commission members recommended 13 documents not be approved for declassification. All 132 recommendations from the national security commission have so far been accepted by ministers of the day. First story on the new do

silence marks jpk anniverary

... EDITORIAL A family falls silent. An anniversary passes. Eleven years, to be sure. No press releases. No conference statements. No email alerts. Still, no trace, Jean-Pascal Couraud. An investigation, yes. Four years old. For a man not forty. Family falls silent, crestfallen, facing, full force, the French state. Freemasons, far frontiers, financial flows, fundamental flaws, fundamentalists. No foreigner. Nor freelancers sans frontiers. Now, just silence. Six months, no more. Surf. Curving onto reef, close; shhhhhh , ukulele, hymn, prayer. Frangipani tree, memory, brothers once three. No bottles, none smashed. Silence, volumes, dawning daze, subprime reality, la force de frappe, sans frontières. France. Flapping tricolour, rainbow reviewed, eternally. Fairly, not really, a frogmen follow-up from mercy dash, Federated states of micronesia, jelly Fish babies. For sure. A photographer, globally mourned. An editor, forgotten. Albion. ...