3:44:00
- Could I give you something?
- No, thanks.
3:44:05
First I want to thank you
for permitting me to come.
3:44:07
Don't mention it.
Yours is a very good newspaper.
3:44:11
Not like some of these...
3:44:16
But I don't know exactly
what you want of me.
3:44:18
Nothing extraordinary.
3:44:20
I am just enquiring
into the workings of NATO.
3:44:23
Since you are one of its officials...
3:44:26
Do you mind if I sketch you
while we talk?
3:44:28
It is one of my specialties - sketching
the people I am interviewing.
3:44:32
- The newspaper likes it.
- Go ahead.
3:44:40
Just relax, Monsieur Jarré.
3:44:44
I am relaxed.
3:44:46
Good.
3:44:47
I only wonder what questions
you want to ask.
3:44:52
They are very simple. For example...
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You are a civilian official of NATO.
3:44:59
How does your authority
compare with the military?
3:45:02
The importance of people in NATO
3:45:04
has nothing to do with whether
they wear a uniform or not.
3:45:09
Very good.
3:45:11
Then you are among those
who make the decisions?
3:45:14
- Yes, of course.
- Even if they are military?
3:45:17
Military considerations
are always subject to politics
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and the relations between countries.
3:45:25
I see.
3:45:27
So you have access
to all the decisions that are made,
3:45:31
military as well as political?
3:45:33
I did not say that.
I am afraid you assume too much.
3:45:39
I am very sorry.
3:45:40
But we can assume, can't we,
that in your position
3:45:43
you have access to confidential files?
3:45:45
I beg your pardon. I don't see how
that can be of interest to you.
3:45:50
Oh, Monsieur Jarré.
3:45:53
The readers of our newspaper
find such things fascinating.
3:45:58
For them, to know that a civilian
can have access to military secrets -