Maurice Dejean

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Maurice Ernest Napoléon Dejean (born September 30, 1899 in Clichy , Département Seine , † January 14, 1982 in Paris ) was a French diplomat who, among other things, was Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of the government-in-exile of Free France between 1941 and 1942 .

Life

Dejean worked as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at various foreign missions. On September 24, 1941, he became Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of the government-in-exile of Free France and held this position until October 17, 1942, when René Pleven was his successor.

After the end of the Second World War , he became ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1945 and was accredited there until 1949 . He was then head of the mission between 1950 and 1952 and then ambassador to Japan from 1952 to 1953 , before he succeeded Jean Letourneau between July 28, 1953 and was replaced by Paul Ély on April 10 in the final phase of the Indochina War 1954 was General Commissioner of French Indochina . Most recently he succeeded Louis Joxe as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1955 and remained there until he retired in 1964. Dejean was compromised by the Soviet agent Larissa Kronberg using the code name "Lora". He is believed to have worked with the KGB as a result of sex espionage .

For his services, he became commander of the Legion of Honor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French Indochina: Governors General
  2. ^ Nigel West: Historical Dictionary of Sex Espionage . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6287-6 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2019]).
  3. ^ Soviet actress Larisa Kronberg. In: Soviet Art. March 11, 2016, accessed January 15, 2019 (Russian).
  4. ^ Nigel West: Historical Dictionary of Sex Espionage . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6287-6 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Dejean, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dejean, Maurice Ernest Napoléon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Clichy , Seine department
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1982
Place of death Paris