Jean Clémentin, former great pen of the “Chained Duck” “died on January 5 at the age of 98”, announced the satirical weekly on Wednesday. A year ago, “Obs” revealed that the journalist was also an agent from the East, paid by the Czechoslovak secret services. A great survey that we republish below.
On August 15, 1969, Jean Clémentin, head of the political service at the “Chained Duck”, and Miroslav Merta, Czechoslovak diplomat, have an appointment in a Parisian restaurant, Le Dinard. They have their habits there. Fast too. Also Arms of Brittany, in Montparnasse. And in many other places. In fact, they constantly alternate. To avoid arousing suspicion.
As always, Miroslav Merta will report the details of this meeting of August 15, 1969 to his superiors in Prague. Here is what this now declassified secret note says. Before entering the café, the diplomat took stricter precautions than usual. He wandered around Paris for two hours to escape possible spinning by French counterintelligence. Then he watched the comings and goings at Dinard.
The meeting secured, Merta settles down first. Clémentin arrives, feverish. The journalist of the “Chained Duck” immediately asks the Czechoslovakian if he is certain that no one is on his heels. Because last week, he says, a car observed his home in Meudon for several hours. Clementin is very
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