I never received anything, ... It is obvious to me that the Americans want to implicate France.

Someone used my name,

I wrote to Mr. Coleman, ... and I told him that all allegations about myself are false.

I denied (it then and)... again in October 2004 having received any profit in any form from the Iraqi authorities or the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein,

I was France.

They reflect the times. This is 1941. Europe is sliding very quickly into war, France is about to be occupied by Germany, and it was a time of enormous anxiety, tension, fear.