When the Soviet bloc drew on the pool of French journalists to make them its spies. In 1999, an exceptional book, The Mitrokhin Archive: the KGB in Europe and the West.
Of the 996 pages of the work, twenty concerned France, a country where the KGB had “treated more agents (… at least fifty” than anywhere else “in Eastern Europe” West. Among his paid spies were several journalists, including Paul-Marie de La Gorce, who had written in our columns from 1963 to 1995.