French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who has links to the USA.Christine Lagarde once worked as an intern at the United States Capitol, as William Cohen's congressional assistant. (Christine Lagarde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
William Cohen was US Defence Secretary.
Christine Lagarde now hopes to become boss of the IMF.
Voltaire Network has reported on Christine Lagarde's links to US Corporations.
(IMF Regime Change: With Christine Lagarde, US Corporations Enter the French Government)
According to Voltaire:
"Only a few years ago, she was defending the interests of US multinationals to the detriment of French companies."
In 1981, she joined the giant Baker & McKenzie law firm, in Chicago, and made a career in the United States.
As a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, she 'worked in the interests of Boeing and Lockheed-Martin to the detriment of the interests of Airbus and Dassault'.
She is a member of the CSIS, the think tank of the oil lobby in the United States.
As a member of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, she co-presided over its Poland commission along with Zbigniew Brzezinski; she was in charge of the USA-Poland Defense Industries working group (1995-2002); she 'represented US interests'.
In 2003, Lockheed-Martin sold 48 F-16 jet fighters to Poland for 3.5 billion dollars.
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