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Since the fall <strong>of</strong> France, in June 1940, the {Banque Nationale pour le<br />

Commerce et l'Industrie} <strong>of</strong> Laval expanded very rapidly into North Africa,<br />

and opened branches in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Dakar. According to<br />

American investigator, Alexander Sacks, Laval's Bank had become, in<br />

France, "a valuable adjunct to German economic penetration." (Alexander<br />

Sacks, {Confidential report on {THE BANQUE NATIONALE POUR LE<br />

COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE}, Economic Warfare Unit, Department <strong>of</strong><br />

Justice, New York. April 211, 1943. P.1)<br />

The B.N.C.I. Laval Bank was run by a boyhood friend <strong>of</strong> Laval,<br />

Albert Buisson, who was also a director in the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer<br />

du Nord, a Rothschild interest. Buisson was also a director <strong>of</strong> the Societe des<br />

Usines Chimiques Rhone-Poulenc, a chemical pharmaceutical company<br />

which became the key entry-point <strong>of</strong> the French Chemical Industries into the<br />

early Franco-German collaboration, especially with the I.G. Farben Industry.<br />

The two companies became jointly run during the Prime Ministership <strong>of</strong><br />

Laval in September 1931. According to Sacks: " The B.N.C.I., at the<br />

outbreak <strong>of</strong> World War II, had an unbroken record <strong>of</strong> expansion and<br />

intimacy with the varying French governments unequalled by any other<br />

independent French non-government bank. The months <strong>of</strong> the so-called<br />

phony war from September 1939 to May 1940, saw the bank growing<br />

stronger and larger and ever closer to the individuals who held power in the<br />

government. After the fall <strong>of</strong> France, the bank came under the direct<br />

supervision <strong>of</strong> the German authorities." (Sacks, Op.Cit., p. 15)<br />

The B.N.C.I. served primarily as a conduit for French occupation<br />

funds to pay from 50 to 75 billion francs a month for the cost <strong>of</strong> maintaining<br />

the German troops garrisoned in the French occupied territories. Sacks<br />

estimated that from the time <strong>of</strong> the Armistice until May 11, 1941, that is a<br />

little over a year, the occupation costs amounted to 400,000,000 million<br />

francs per day! The affiliates <strong>of</strong> B.N.C.I. in the United States were Chase<br />

Bank and Morgan & Co., Inc., the same banks that had bankrolled a coup<br />

against FDR in 1934, and that Veteran <strong>of</strong> Foreign War member, Republican<br />

Presidential Candidate, Smedley Butler, had denounced publicly to the<br />

press.<br />

The B.N.C.I established itself in North Africa under the name <strong>of</strong><br />

{Banque de l'Union Nord Africaine <strong>of</strong> Algiers} B.U.N.A.A.. With a<br />

personal friend <strong>of</strong> Laval, and a former member <strong>of</strong> the fascist organization<br />

Croix de Feu, M. Jouvet, as managing director. The B.U.N.A.A. interests<br />

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