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Saddam paid off French leaders; $1.78 billion in oil-food funds went to buy influence at U.N.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 07-OCT-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Saddam paid off French leaders; $1.78 billion in oil-food funds went to buy influence at U.N.(NATION)

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Byline: Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Saddam Hussein used a U.N. humanitarian program to pay $1.78 billion to French government officials, businessmen and journalists in a bid to have sanctions removed and U.S. policies opposed, according to a CIA report made public yesterday.

The cash was part of $10.9 billion secretly skimmed from the U.N. oil-for-food program, which was used by Iraq to buy military goods, according to a 1,000-page report by the CIA-led Iraqi Survey Group.

According to a section of the report on Iraqi weapons procurement, the survey group identified long-standing ties between Saddam and the French government. One 1992 Iraqi intelligence service report revealed that Iraq's ambassador to France paid $1 million to the French Socialist Party in 1988.

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