Currently on trial in Paris is a 468 page criminal indictment against the creme de la creme of Parisian society for a proxy war in the African nation of Angola during the 1990's. The defendants are accused of violating a United Nations arms embargo by funneling 790 million dollars worth of arms to the embattled nation. Among the names of the accused are son of former French President Francois Mitterand Jean-Cristophe Mitterand, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, French businessman Pierre Falcone, and Israeli Russian billionaire Arcady Gaydamak. As for the United States' role in Angolagate affairs, Vice President Dick Cheney's Halliburton provided a questionable loan to Angola's Import-Export Bank in 1998 before the CIA-backed guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi died at the hands of satellite technology in the Angolan bush. The cream always rises to the top. French businessman Pierre Falcone and his wife ingratiated themselves to American society to by donating to George W. Bush's 2000 campaign through the Falcone's Essante' Corporation a manufacturer of sexual enhancement products.
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