FALIGOT – KROP : La Piscine (fülszöveg)
The headquarters of the French secret service in Paris is opposite 'La Piscine' – the Tourelles swimming baths – and it is by this name that the Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE) is popularly known.
Journalists Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop relate the extraordinary history of the French intelligence service from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in 1985. In the best traditions of investigative journalism they make use of archives and documents hitherto closed to public scrutiny, in addition to numerous interviews with former agents and intelligence chiefs, who have never before spoken at length about their experiences.
As a result La Piscine provides a unique insight into the workings of a major secret service, revealing its failures as well as its successes, its structure, organization and key decision-makers. Its agents attempted to liberate Jews from concentration camps, organized opium traffic in Indo-China, defying Ho Chi Minh and the CIA, and were involved in attempts to assassinate Presidents Ben Bella and Nasser. Faligot and Krop tell a story that is often heroic, sometimes scandalous and occasionally funny, but always highly readable.
A bestseller in France, and now effectively a training manual for French intelligence officers, the original version of La Piscine won Le Prix du Livre d'Investigation awarded by La Fondation pour la Liberté de la Presse in 1985. This English translation contains an entirely new chapter on the Rainbow Warrior affair, which the authors uncovered in 1985, and a number of previously unpublished pictures.
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