Det svenska kosmetikföretaget Oriflame
åt IB, den "hemligaste" delen av försvarets
underrättelsetjänst.
Reservofficeren Staffan af Jochnick var en
av de patriotiska företagare som inregistrerade
bolag som IB fick använda som täckmantlar
för underrättelseaktivitet. När det tjänat ut
för det syftet blev det en makalöst lönsam
kosmetikadistributör.
Med tanke på den bakgrunden är det lite
ironiskt att franska nazistföretaget LÓreal
tycks vilja ta över Oriflame. LÓreal har ända
Därför är det glädjande att familjen af Jochnick
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jagade judar under tyska ockupationen. Som VD
för L´Oreal blev en av hans första stora kap det
Rubinstein. Men även inom företaget drevs en
antisemitisk politik:
"In 1989, Jean Frydman, a director of L'Oreal,
the highly profitable Paris-based cosmetics con-
glomerate, learned he had "resigned" at a board
of directors meeting that never actually took
place. A hero of the French Resistance, founder
of Paravision (a L'Oreal subsidiary), a Jew and
a part-time resident of Israel, Frydman
suspected that his resignation had been forged
to meet the demands of the Arab League, which,
at that time, was enforcing a ban -illegal in both
France and the U.S.-on businesses with ties to
Israel. He later began to suspect that the
instigator of his removal was Jacques Correze,
a former Nazi collaborator and convicted war
criminal who was head of the company's U.S.
operation. The ensuing lawsuits created a
scandal in France. As retold by Bar-Zohar, a
novelist and a biographer of David Ben-Gurion,
L'Oreal was a hotbed of former Nazi sympathizers
all too willing to bribe and be pressured by anti-
Zionists. It also had friends in high places, Bar-
Zohar claims, as high as French President
Francois Mitterand, who appeared publicly
as an archenemy of the boycott."
(Michael Bar-Zohar: Bitter Scent: The Case of
L'Oreal, Nazis, and the Arab Boycott)
