L'Express magazine reveals in its Thursday edition that its director in the 1970s, Philippe Grumbach, was a spy for the secret services of the USSR. “His intimate entourage confirmed this occult relationship to L’Express.
Close to Mitterrand and Giscard, he was, unbeknownst to everyone, one of the greatest Soviet spies of the Fifth Republic,” says the company's editor-in-chief Étienne Girard. ‘It was impossible not to reveal this gray area within a newspaper which, from Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber to Jean-François Revel, from François Mauriac to Raymond Aron, has always strived to combat utopias totalitarianism and the ravages of communism’