Servicing arms producers
Without speaking about the implications of what is suggested in the afore-mentioned note, it is amazing to see that it is not published by a commercial company but by one of the highest civil servants of the French Ministry of Defence. In other words, the General Arms Directorate, which was originally created to supply French Army with needed arms, seems to service huge commercial companies having private interests.
On examination of certain facts and documents, it is fully confirmed, and it is the entire political circle in power, whatever its color, which was used as sales reps by these multinationals dealing in the death market (Thomson, Aérospatiale, Dassault, Snecma, Matra, etc.).
In an article published in Le Monde, on 1983, November 28, Pierre Marion, the former head of French external intelligence service, bluntly stated that: “politicians are now unable to control the military-industrial circle”.
A few years later, in an article published in Le Monde Diplomatic, in April 88, the French Navy Admiral Antoine Sanguinetti, pushed the rationale a little further and explained how the State and the Political circles were somehow infiltrated and how French policy was influenced as a result:
“In the private offices of the Ministry of Defense and in the ones of the Delegate (i.e. Délégué Général à l’Armement – the highest civil servant within the French MOD coordinating the arms market in France), there is a sufficient amount of arms engineers (high ranking civil servants in charge of R&D in arms industry for the Government) to efficiently protect the vested interests of this industry. There, they establish useful solidarity links and connections. Alike their colleagues, the Senior Treasury Officials (high ranking civil servants in charge of controlling the use of budgeted funds for the Government) or the General Army Controllers (high ranking civil servants in charge of controlling military activities for the Government), they receive dividends for their efficiency and dedication by being hired as senior executives by arms manufacturers without having to forego any of their “military” pensions.
Even more serious, high ranking military officials have been contaminated and are re-employed in the same conditions despite the fact that it violates laws. One can only hope it is not to reward them for their ‘understanding’ or their ‘flexibility’ toward their suppliers when they were on active service.
The total control of the military body by arms manufacturer industry has an immediate consequence: the octopus-like circle which was so created with the main industries of the country – mechanical, electronic, information technology, nuclear and more recently, chemical industries – is in the position to divert military budgets toward uncontrolled vested technical or financial interests. Arms are no longer designed and made according to a defense policy worked out by political echelons – defense policy is designed to match commercial needs, as well as possible, so that already produced arms can be used.”
An infernal machine servicing vested interests is at work and is pursuing aims which dictate policy and decisions not only in France but in many parts of the world. Politicians become their sales reps and the French tax payers, as we will see hereunder, the ones being conned in this deadly scam.
