The head of French military espionage fired for his failures in the Ukraine war

March 31, 2022

The head of France’s military intelligence agency has resigned because he failed to predict the war in Ukraine, multiple French media reported, citing unnamed sources and an internal email announcing his departure.

Eric Vidaud had been at the helm of the military intelligence agency for seven months, but sources told l’Opinion newspaper and other outlets that the army had judged his briefings to be “insufficient” and that he lacked “subject mastery”.

France’s armed forces chief of staff, Thierry Burkhard, told Le Monde this month that French intelligence, unlike its American counterpart, was unable to predict Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“The Americans said the Russians were going to attack, they were right. Our services thought that invading Ukraine would have a monstrous cost and that the Russians had other options,” Burkhard told Le Monde.

L’Opinion revealed that Vidaud was told on Tuesday that he would have to leave his post in the summer due tofailures in Ukraine,butthe general decided to resign immediately.

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