Bernard Émié
 Bernard Émié      ( diplomat, spook) | |
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| Born | Bernard Jean Maurice Émié 6 September 1958 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | • Sciences-Po • ÉNA |
| Spouse | Isabelle de Chabanne |
Bernard Émié is a French diplomat and spook who attended his first Bilderberg meeting in 2018 as head of the foreign intelligence agency DGSE.
Education
Emié graduated in 1979 from Sciences Po, before going to the École nationale d'administration (ÉNA).
Career
He joined the French Foreign Ministry as a Secretary in 1983. He worked as Second Secretary in New Delhi, India (1984–86), before being seconded by Jean-Bernard Raimond to the Foreign Ministry.
Emié was promoted as Counsellor at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., United States, before returning to duties at the French Foreign Ministry as Deputy Director for North Africa and the Middle East.
Emié was Private Secretary (1993–95) to Alain Juppé, and as Minister-Counsellor to President Jacques Chirac.
During the "Rwanda genocide" (in reality not a genocide, but a US proxy war operation to take Rwanda out of the French sphere of influence) allowed members of the former government to flee.[1][2]
In 1998, he was appointed Ambassador to Jordan and, in 2002, was given the responsibility of being France's Director of North Africa and the Middle Eastern Affairs. In 2004, he was appointed as French Ambassador to the Lebanon. He was in the post when Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, a close friend of Chirac, was assassinated in 2005. Émié played a key role in efforts to push Syrian troops out of Lebanon. Syrian forces entered Lebanon during its 1980s civil war and remained afterwards.[3]
Emié was Ambassador to Turkey from 2007 until 2011 and French Ambassador to the UK from 2011 until 2014, before being posted as French Ambassador to Algeria.
In 2014, he wrote about the regime change proxy war against Syria, where France was an active backer, "The French government remains wholly committed to finding a solution to this crisis. Together with our British friends, we will spare no effort to this end. The risk of terrorism and further radicalization of the conflict must be averted, while moderates must be supported. The Syrian regime mustbe held to account. It must proceed with the dismantling of its chemical arsenal, only a fifth of which has been carried out so far."[4]
He was the head of the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence agency, from June 2017 until his replacement in January 2024.[5]
Marriage
Bernard Emié, of Belgian descent, married on 30 September 1989 Isabelle, only daughter of François de Chabannes (marquis de La Palice de Tournon),[6] by whom he has two daughters and one son.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2018 | 7 June 2018 | 10 June 2018 | Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress | The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government. |
| Bilderberg/2022 | 2 June 2022 | 5 June 2022 | US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel | The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19 |
| Bilderberg/2023 | 18 May 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Portugal Lisbon Pestana Palace Hotel | The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009. |
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
| Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
| Munich Security Conference/2023 | 17 February 2023 | 19 February 2023 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere. |
References
- ↑ https://www.africanews.com/2021/02/17/french-allowed-rwanda-genocide-perpetrators-to-flee/
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/15/frances-current-spy-chief-signed-order-free-top-rwanda-genocide/
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2FN/
- ↑ https://uk.ambafrance.org/Blog-Syria-three-years-of-tragedy
- ↑ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231220-domestic-security-boss-becomes-france-s-top-spook
- ↑ http://www.william1.co.uk/b30.htm
