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. . . COMMENT Recently fined 1000 euros for defaming a Pape'ete prosecutor, Tahiti Pacifique publisher Alex du Prel has blasted back with a front cover expose of secret dealings during the Flosse years. The phrase " barbouzes " is slang similar to "spooks" while " filatures, surveillances, enregistrements " refers to shadowing, surveillance and recordings. September caps a rough few months for the 18 year old magazine, one of the few independents left in the Pacific. Earlier, a Paris court, 18,000 kilometres from Pape'ete, had found in favour of a complaint from a French prosecutor representing Tahiti. It is one of the few successful attempts at defamation proceedings, du Prel receiving dozens of legal - and illegal - threats over the years. Their decision came despite earlier decisions by the Consultative Commission on National Defence Secrets to not release three documents from the Directorate General of External Security, French ...

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...