I'm not sure if my readers are as interested in the Alexis Debat debacle (scroll down for earlier stories) as I continue to be, but the
very latest by Guillemette Faure and Pascal Riché deserves some notice.
Politique Internationale, the neocon-linked journal which published those fake interviews with Obama, Bill Gates,
both Clintons and other luminaries, now claims that they were hoodwinked. Patrick Wajsman, the current editor of that journal, claims that he was the "first victim" of Debat. That magazine used him as an expert consultant because of his ABC credentials. So did PBS. Apparently, a connection to that network opens many doors.
At 35, Alexis Debat was pretty successful. He had a respectable position in a well-regarded think tank, he was a regular face on television, he was quoted in newspapers… why did he need to keep fabricating interviews in a French journal with a limited circulation? This is another mystery of this stunning story.
Good question. I still cannot escape the feeling that his CIA contacts put him up to at least
some of this maddening behavior, although the of motive remains a matter guesswork.