Espionage and counter-espionage.
State matter: “political matter which involves members of the government of one state or of several states”. They abound, no country escapes them and yet they are regularly hidden. Freely inspired by the reality of the facts, Philippe Richelle proposes to revisit in State Affairs, three events which shook the French state in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Each of these decades will have the right to an independent cycle – composed of four volumes – which will be put into images by a different designer: Régis Penet for Cold War, Pierre Wachs for Far right and Alfio Buscaglia for Jihad. An ambitious concept series of historical thrillers and espionage supported by an exceptional publication since the first three volumes will be released on the same day.
December 1961. A KGB agent by the name of Trifonov goes west via Finland. He finds asylum in the United States where he is taken care of by the head of the CIA’s counterintelligence service, a virulent anti-Communist. For the most part, Trifonov’s revelations concern France: there are said to be Soviet moles at NATO headquarters in Paris and within the SDECE, the French espionage service. Agent Fred Ogier, in charge of the case and assigned to flush out the traitors, will have to untangle the knots of a vast counter-espionage investigation whose scope still escapes him …
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