ifthey are a bit serious and if they don’t take themselves for living room James Bonds, intelligence officers generally wait until retirement to talk about their long-term adventures or else remain silent forever hiding their secrets. But Énora Chame, the pseudonym of a French officer, nevertheless chose to tell a mission of a few months in Syria ten years ago during which everything changed.
Not that there is prescription on the facts: even if Bashar el-Assad has regained control of part of his territory, the civil war is still ongoing. Not that this senior French officer, a woman, chose to break the secret to settle some accounts. But because his report is that of a mission carried out on behalf of the UN in a context…