Jacques Foccart

Jacques Koch-Foccart (August 31st 1913, Ambrières-the-Large - March 19th 1997, Paris), known as Jacques Foccart , was an political adviser French, general secretary of the Elysium to the African and Malagasy businesses of 1960 with 1974.

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Biography

Resistance

It contacts Resistance in 1942 on its native soil. After facts of resistance in Mayenne, it joined London and BCRA. The April 27th 1944, lieutenant-colonel, it crosses under the balls a stopping of the Feldgendarmerie in the Orne. Its assistant, Roger Guerney, is killed by protecting it from his body. At the time of the Unloading of Normandy, it is in charge of the " plan; Tortue". In October 1944, it is again in London where it joined the allied special services. It assembles the operation Viacarage .

The politician

Initially member of the national council, then assistant general secretary, it replaces in 1954 Louis Terrenoire as general secretary of RPF under the IV {{E}} République.

Mr Africa

In 1952, it is co-opted by the senatorial group gaullist to take part in the French Union , supposed to manage the reports/ratios of the France with its colonies. In 1953, it accompanies de Gaulle in a African tour. It makes knowledge with Abidjan of Houphouët-Boigny. It returns to the capacity in 1958, while being named by de Gaulle at the post of adviser technical with the Hôtel Matignon, responsible for the African businesses.

It was the “Mister Africa”, man of the shade of the general Charles de Gaulle, then of Georges Pompidou. Man of networks, it plays a great part in the African foreign politics as from 1960, so much so that one could say that it was, after Gaulle, the most influential man of Ve République. He was often regarded as being the instigator of many conspiracies and coups d'etat in Africa lasting the years 1960. Regarded as a close relation of the Marshal Mobutu in Congo-Kinshasa, it was also as of 1967 an important actor of the support brought by France for the secession of Biafra, by deliveries of weapons and interposed mercenaries. It received regularly the Head of State African " amis" either in the apartment street of Prony, the XVII {{E}} district of Paris, or in the “fetish box”, under the roofs of its villa Charlotte to Luzarches.

Critics of the gaullism like to insinuate that two offices faced the government: the office of the Prime Minister for the metropolis, and that of Foccart for the Françafrique. What was called “Foccart networks” consisted of a very provided close link and address book which made go up until him the various tendencies composing the Franco-African relations, with the secret services (SDECE, DST). Its role was not limited to Africa, since it was charged by de Gaulle at the same time with the secret services and the follow-up with the elections, and in particular of the nominations during the Sixties. During the electoral campaigns, it was marked on several occasions to use Barbouze S and black Blousons against the left-wing candidates. In 1969, during the short passage of Alain Poher in the Elysium, convenient which made it possible to record the other parts of the palate was discovered. The business was revealed by the Canard connected and was known under the name of convenient with Foccart .

Jacques Foccart was one of the principal initiators of a certain French policy in Africa called “Françafrique” by his detractors - term borrowed from Houphouët-Boigny, taken again by François-Xavier Verschave in this direction in his work Françafrique, the longest scandal of the Republic - and which would have continued under François Mitterrand with the son of this last, Jean-Christophe called Dad-me AD .

He was the cofounder of the civic Service of action (SAC), service d´ordre of the movement Gaulliste.

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