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FRANCE'S CLIENT & QADDAFI'S GOLD
From: Sidney Blumenthal
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2011-04-01 21:00
Subject: FRANCE'S CLIENT & QADDAFI'S GOLD
>UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05785522 Date: 01/07/2016
>RELEASE
>IN FULL
>CONFIDENTIAL
>April 2, 2011
>For: Hillary
>From: Sid
>Re: France's client & Qaddafi's gold
>1. A high ranking official on the National Libyan Council states that factions have
>developed within it. In part this reflects the cultivation by France in particular of clients
>among the rebels. General Abdelfateh Younis is the leading figure closest to the French,
>who are believed to have made payments of an unknown amount to him. Younis has told
>others on the NLC that the French have promised they will provide military trainers and
>arms. So far the men and materiel have not made an appearance. Instead, a few "risk
>assessment analysts" wielding clipboards have come and gone. Jabril, Jalil and others are
>impatient. It is understood that France has clear economic interests at stake. Sarkozy's
>occasional emissary, the intellectual self-promoter Bernard Henri-Levy, is considered by
>those in the NLC who have dealt with him as a semi-useful, semi joke figure.
>2. Rumors swept the NLC upper echelon this week that Qaddafi may be dead or maybe not.
>3. Qaddafi has nearly bottomless financial resources to continue indefinitely, according to
>the latest report we have received:
>On April 2, 2011 sources with access to advisors to Saif al-Islam Qaddafi stated in strictest
>confidence that while the freezing of Libya's foreign bank accounts presents Muammar Qaddafi
>with serious challenges, his ability to equip and maintain his armed forces and intelligence
>services remains intact. According to sensitive information available to this these individuals,
>Qaddafi's government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver. During late March,
>2011 these stocks were moved to SABHA (south west in the direction of the Libyan border with
>Niger and Chad); taken from the vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli.
>This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish
>a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide
>, the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
>(Source Comment: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is
>valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the
>current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas
>UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05785522 Date: 01/07/2016
>Sarkozy's decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals
>Sarkozy's plans are driven by the following issues:
>a.A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,
>b. Increase French influence in North Africa,
>c.Improve his internal political situation in France,
>d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,
>e.Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi's long term plans to supplant France as the
>dominant power in,Francophone Africa. )
>On the afternoon of April 1, an individual with access to the National Libyan Council (NLC)
>stated in private that senior officials of the NLC believe that the rebel military forces are
>beginning to show signs of improved discipline and fighting spirit under some of the new
>military commanders, including Colonel Khalifha Haftar, the former commander of the anti-
>Qaddafi forces in the Libyan National Army (LNA). According to these sources, units defecting
>from Qaddafi's force are also taking a greater role in the fighting on behalf of the rebels.
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