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|description=A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure. | |description=A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure. | ||
| + | |start=1969 | ||
| + | |end=1979 | ||
| + | |image=Great Oil Sniffer Hoax.jpg | ||
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| − | + | '''The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax''' was a remarkably audacious (~$150,000,000?)<ref>http://atomictoasters.com/2011/02/startup-the-great-oil-sniffer-scam/</ref> and probably quite successful scam to defraud oil companies, including [[Elf Aquitaine]]. The perpetrators pretende to have a groundbreaking technology that could detect the presence of oil deposits just be overflying an area. | |
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| + | ==Perpatrators== | ||
| + | The fraud was connected to [[Jean Violet]], who canvassed for funds at a [[Le Cercle/1970 (Washington)|dinner of Le Cercle in Washington in 1970]].<ref>[[File:Rogue Agents - the Cercle and the 6I in the Private Cold War 1951 - 1991 by David Teacher (5th edn, 2017).pdf]]</ref> | ||
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| + | The public state did not show much interest in pursuing the fraud - suggesting that it had at least some degree of [[deep state]] support. | ||
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| + | ==Exposire== | ||
| + | The fraud was exposed by [[Pierre Péan]], and finally broke in December 1983. | ||
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| Date | 1969 - 1979 |
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| Exposed by | Pierre Péan |
| Description | A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure. |
The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax was a remarkably audacious (~$150,000,000?)[1] and probably quite successful scam to defraud oil companies, including Elf Aquitaine. The perpetrators pretende to have a groundbreaking technology that could detect the presence of oil deposits just be overflying an area.
Perpatrators
The fraud was connected to Jean Violet, who canvassed for funds at a dinner of Le Cercle in Washington in 1970.[2]
The public state did not show much interest in pursuing the fraud - suggesting that it had at least some degree of deep state support.
Exposire
The fraud was exposed by Pierre Péan, and finally broke in December 1983.
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