DU CHEYRON'S DEATH IN ROMANIA
DU CHEYRON'S DEATH IN ROMANIA

Author(s): Gabriel-Ion DEGERATU
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Diplomatic history, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: du Cheyron; accident; trial; diplomacy; espionage; Bucharest; Paris;
Summary/Abstract: Between the 1968 visit to Romania of General Charles de Gaulle, president of the fifth French republic, his departure from the head of the country and the arrival of Georges Pompidou, and the general's death on November 9, 1970, the collaboration between the two countries has seen, depending on the field, small, but not substantial, increases or decreases. It was a signal that, in the first period after the change of presidency, the French side's vision of Bucharest was maintained. However, it was a fatal accident at Otopeni that caused excitement and suspicions in the diplomacy of the two republics. The Romanian press did not report on the event because of censorship, and the French press wrote with inaccuracies that were picked up and became, over time, certainties quoted in various materials published in both countries. One of them was that the car of the military officer in Paris who was keeping an eye on the secret services in the communist camp countries was hit by a truck. Romanian archival documents indicate otherwise.

• Details
• Contents