Jacques Bordiot

{{Short description|French journalist and writer}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Jacques Bordiot | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Jean Costes | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|08|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Agen, France | death_date = {{death date and age|1983|4|3|1900|08|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Nancray-sur-Rimarde, France | resting_place = | occupation = Essayist, journalist | language = French | nationality = French | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre =  | subjects = Anti-masonic conspiracy theories | movement = | notableworks =  | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | website = | portaldisp =  | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | allegiance = {{flag|France}} (1940-1945) | branch = 23px French Navy | service_years = 1940-1945 | battles = World War II }} }} '''Jean Costes''' (15 August 1900 – 3 April 1983), better known by his pen name '''Jacques Bordiot''', was a French journalist and writer who focused mainly on anti-Masonic conspiracy theories.

==Life== Costes attended the École Navale and served as an artillery officer and naval lieutenant in the Middle East. In 1940, he chose to follow Marshal Philippe Pétain and join the Vichy armed forces. In 1945, he was dismissed from the French Navy and was then imprisoned during the ''épuration''; one of his best known fellow detainees was Henry Coston.

During the 1950s he worked at Noël Jacquemart's ''Écho de la Presse'' and at ''La Vie des Métiers''. He then worked for the extreme right-wing periodical ''Lectures françaises'' as an editorial writer and published several books on Freemasonry, synarchies, belief of Antisemitic conspiracies and "hidden rulers".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoE383twEQsC|title=L'extrême-droite en France: De Maurras à Le Pen|last=d'Appollonia|first=Ariane Chebel|date=1998-12-01|publisher=Editions Complexe|isbn=9782870277645|language=fr}}</ref>

==Theories== According to Bordiot, between 1918 and 1922, Vladimir Lenin paid the investment bank of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. approximately 600 million gold rubles, equivalent to approximately $450 million, while after the Bolshevik Revolution the Rockefellers' company Standard Oil of New Jersey bought 50% of the oilfields in the Caucasus, although they were officially state property.

In his book ''Une main cachée dirige...'', he analyses power in the Anglo-American sphere.<ref>{{cite web|title=''UNE MAIN CACHÉE DIRIGE …''|url=http://www.editions-du-trident.fr/bordiot.htm|publisher=Éditions du Trident|accessdate=8 March 2016|quote=Publisher's description}}</ref>

== Publications == * ''Infiltrations ennemies dans l'Église'' ([''Enemy Infiltration in the Church'']; with Henry Coston, Léon de Poncins, Édith Delamare, Gilles de Couessin), Paris, Librairie française, 1970. * ''Une main cachée dirige...'' ([''A Hidden Hand Directs...'']), Paris: Documents et témoignages, 1974; rev. ed. 1984; Paris: Éditions du Trident, 1993. {{ISBN|2-87690-089-0}} * ''L'Occident démantelé. Opinions et documents'' ([''The Dismantled West: Opinions and Documents'']), Paris: La Librairie française, 1976. * ''Le Pouvoir occulte, fourrier du communisme. Vague rouge sur l'Europe'' ([''The Hidden Power: Quartermaster of Communism. Red Wave Over Europe'']), Chiré-en-Montreuil: Éditions de Chiré, 1976. {{ISBN|2-85190-019-6}} * ''Le Parlement européen, une imposture, une utopie, un danger'' ([''The European Parliament: A Sham, a Utopia, a Danger'']), Paris: La Librairie française, 1978. * ''La Comisión Trilateral y el poder internacional del dinero'' (in Spanish; [''The Trilateral Commission and the International Power of Money'']), Buenos Aires: Cabildo, 1980 * ''Le Gouvernement invisible. Documents et témoignage'' ([''The Invisible Government: Documents and Testimony'']), preface by Henry Coston, Paris: La Librairie française, 1983; 2nd ed. 1987.

== Sources == * {{cite book|last1=Coston|first1=Henry|authorlink1=Henry Coston|title=Dictionnaire de la politiques française|date=2000|orig-year=1967|publisher=La Librairie française; Chez l'auteur|type=Volume 5}} * {{cite journal|title=''Lectures françaises'' a 40 ans! Témoignages anciens et récents" (["''Lectures françaises'' at 40 years! Stories old and new])|journal=Lectures Françaises|date=March 1997|volume=479|page=30}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * {{cite book|last1=Chebel d'Appollonia|first1=Ariane|authorlink1=:fr:Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia|title=L'Extrême droite en France: De Maurras à Le Pen|date=1999|publisher=Complexe|location=Bruxelles|isbn=2870277644|edition=Nouv. éd.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoE383twEQsC|accessdate=8 March 2016|language=French}} * {{cite book|last1=Taguieff|first1=Pierre-André|authorlink1=Pierre-André Taguieff|title=La Foire aux illuminés: Ésotérisme, théorie du complot, extrémisme|date=2005|publisher=Mille et une nuits|location=Paris|isbn=2842059255|language=French}}

==External links== *[http://www.chire.fr/A-191468-jacques-bordiot-1900-1983.aspx Jacques Bordiot (1900-1983)], brief biographical sketch (in French), with photograph, at the Editions de Chiré publishing house website

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