Alliance Base

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Alliance Base is allegedly the code name for a counter-terrorism center ( Fusion Center ) in Paris between the CIA and the DGSE , which , according to the Washington Post , was established in 2002 .

It is to be directed by a French general and financed mainly by the USA. According to the Washington Post on July 3, 2005, officials from Australia, Germany, Great Britain and Canada are also involved. Michèle Alliot-Marie , Defense Minister of France, did not confirm the establishment, but pointed out the "common information gathering, common prevention and common actions - for example in Afghanistan" with the CIA. The Federal Ministry of the Interior has denied the involvement of German officials and thus also contradicted the charge that German intelligence services could illegally view police data in this way. However, there are statements to the contrary, which confirm the research of the Washington Post .

According to information from the Paris weekly newspaper Nouvel Observateur, one should not imagine an organization “with an organizational chart and a permanent seat” under Alliance Base, but rather agents from six countries meet in Paris every day. The Washington Post reports that the Alliance Base not only collects and exchanges information on international terrorism, but also plans covert operations. A total of 20 operations are said to have been carried out by 2005, with the case of the German Christian Ganczarski , an airline passenger traveling from Riyadh to Germany via Paris, was particularly mentioned. The suspected al-Qaeda member was expelled from Saudi Arabia on June 3, 2003 after his Saudi pilgrim visa expired and arrested in Paris.

The Washington Post reported on November 18, 2005 that the Paris organization was one of more than two dozen similar Counterterrorist Intelligence Centers (CTIC) worldwide. From these centers the US war on terrorism is carried out with the help of the national counterparts. According to the Washington Post, these centers should be modeled on the centers against drug cultivation and drug trafficking in South America and Asia.

The existence of the Alliance Base was confirmed on September 8, 2006 in a radio interview by Christophe Chaboud, head of the French UCLAT ("  Unité de Coordination de la Lutte contre le Terrorisme  ").

According to a media report from 2010, the organization ceased operations in the summer of 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dana Priest: Help From France Key In Covert Operations . In: The Washington Post , July 3, 2005 (English)
  2. ↑ Information flow past the Basic Law. Have German officials violated the separation requirement? Otto Schily denies this accusation . In: taz Berlin, July 5, 2005
  3. ↑ La collaboration antiterroriste confirmée. In: radiofrance.fr. Archived from the original on June 20, 2007 ; Retrieved October 24, 2006 .
  4. ↑ The Agent Alliance . taz , July 5, 2005
  5. ↑ Dana Priest: Foreign Network at Front of CIA's Terror Fight . The Washington Post , November 17, 2005
  6. ↑ La France abrité une cellule anti terroriste secrète en plein Paris . Le Monde , September 13, 2006
  7. ↑ David Servenay: Terrorisme: pourquoi Alliance Base a fermé à Paris . Rue89, May 24, 2010