“When the Czechs asked him for information, Gérard Carreyrou went looking for it,” according to the author of “In the Pay of Moscow”

For Vincent Jauvert, senior reporter, former head of the foreign service of “L’Obs”, author of this work, the former head of TF1 news, Gérard Carreyrou worked well with the StB, a library intelligence service. This is not the only personality implicated.

Journalists, senior politicians, Vincent Jauvert, senior reporter, specialist in intelligence affairs, traces in In the pay of Moscowpublished by Le Seuil, the story of personalities who spied for the East from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. These revelations are based on Czechoslovak archives. “It is the only country in the world that has opened the archives of its intelligence service, which provides information that cannot be found anywhere else, indicates Vincent Jaubert, Wednesday February 28. We follow the intelligence agents on a day-to-day basis.” There is, among all these actors, around thirty names of French people who spied for the East during the Cold War. Its personalities held very influential positions.

Gérard Carreyrou, former news boss of TF1, is presented in the book as an important collaborator of the StB [les services tchèques]. “He was not an agent, indicates Vincent Jaubert, he was not at the top of the hierarchy.” Gérard Carreyrou formally denies his information and announces in point that he will file a complaint but for Vincent Jaubert: “When the Czechs asked him for information, he went and got it.” Among this information, Vincent Jaubert mentions in particular the names “unknown officials at the time of Star Wars in France, the cancer of President François Mitterrand which was not public at the time or notes on Jacques Attali or even Hubert Védrine. In this sense he was making ‘spying”he assures.

Paul-Marie de La Gorce agent of the GRU

In this book, which appears on March 1, a chapter is also devoted to Paul-Marie de La Gorce, who died in 2004. This journalist was notably an editorialist for Figaro, and head of the international service of Radio France. Vincent Jauvert’s research confirms the suspicions concerning him. “There are library documents and Russian documents showing that Paul-Marie de La Gorce was an agent of the GRU, the intelligence and action service of therussian army. He informed them very precisely about NATO and he was paid quite handsomely.” This is obviously not the only activity he is accused of. Paul-Marie de La Gorce practiced, according to Vincent Jauvert, the technique of disinformation by spreading, for example, rumors among the Gaulists. “This was also true of the former editor-in-chief of ‘Canard chainé’, Jean Clémentin.”

For the author, with Vladimir Putin, a former KGB official at the head of Russia, these practices continue and “have been multiplied by ten, by a hundred, by a thousand. In terms of disinformation everything was invented in the 60s. Technology allows us to do many additional things, but the recruitment methods are the same”, concludes Vincent Jauvert.