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According to Wikileaks the CIA was meddling in the 2012 French election.

Remember this? French candidate tripped up in sex scandal...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878032/posts

Was that an intelligence op?

Possibly. This mentions that James Angleton's old associate Edward Jay Epstein looked into that possibility, though it sounds like he wasn't able to prove it was set up ahead of time: "Epstein later wrote that Strauss-Kahn now accepts that his enemies did not set up his encounter with Diallo, but believes they did play a role, through intercepted phone calls, in making sure that the hotel maid went to the police, turning a private tryst into a public scandal": New York v. Strauss-Kahn This indicates the accuser's motive: "In addition, the prosecution learned that, the day following the alleged assault, the housekeeper had made a phone call in her native Fula language to her boyfriend in an immigration detention center. The New York Times quoted a law enforcement official as saying that a translation of the call revealed she had used words to the effect of 'Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I'm doing.' Prosecutors said that the conversation, one of at least three they recorded, raised 'very troubling' questions about the credibility of the accuser 'because she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing charges against a wealthy man.'"

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