Jean-Paul Ney

Jean-Paul Ney (born 1976) is a French-Spanish reporter, author, television director, photographer, and war correspondent with an interest in security topics.

He has co-authored five photobooks and authored four other books, several of which are scoops and investigative documentaries. He directed a television documentary for the TV channel. Ney has been published in Le Figaro magazine and VSD among other publications.

==The "RIMBAUD affair"==
Jean-Paul Ney once worked as a watchman for a security company with a contract at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay

In 2002, a network access control card to the ministry computer system RIMBAUD (Réseau interministériel de base uniformément durci) belonging to the then Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dominique Perreau was stolen. In spring 2002, Ney contacted a former director of the Central Directorate of Security and Information Systems (DCSSI), under the wing of the National Defense Secretariat (SGDN), showed him the access card, and told him that RIMBAUD had been cracked. Ney was investigated by the French Justice Department concerning the theft of the access card, which was found on him.

Harassment case
On March 10, 2004, Ney was found guilty of using threatening behaviour against Antoine Champagne, the webmaster of kitetoa.com. Using the handle "Egoz", he had participated in forums on Transfert.net and later on kitetoa.com, where he engaged in a feud with the editor. He was accused of repeatedly telephoning and making death threats against Champagne from March 2002 onwards. The 18th Chamber of the Nanterre Tribunal sentenced Ney to one year's suspended jail sentence, 2 years' probation, mandatory psychiatric counselling and EUR3,000 in damages to the plaintiff. He was also ordered to pay EUR1,000 of the plaintiff's legal fees.

Professional credits
In 2000, Jean-Paul Ney states that he became the first European journalist to be invited to the NSA..

He directed a TV documentary for Canal +,

From July 2003 to September 2005, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Le Monde Confidentiel.

In 2005, Ney published a book entitled Souriez, on vous espionne (Smile, we're watching you). Mr. Ney has appeared on Direct 8 channel as a consultant in defense and terrorism topics.

Membership of security organizations

*Research director, founder chairman, International Centre for Research and Studies on Terrorism (CIRET-AVT), Paris-Washington-Moscow.
*Founder of the Committee of Defence and Homeland Security Journalists & War Correspondents, Paris.
*Member of the Association of Defense Journalists, Military School, Paris.

Books

* Terreurs Virtuelles. Les Nouvelles Menaces à l'Aube du XXI Siècle. (Virtual Terror: New threats at the dawn of the twenty-first Century),(1999). Carnot-Cicéron.
*SOS Bogue, with Michel Chevalet (1999). Carnot-Cicéron.
*Black Book on Terrorism, foreword Yves Bonnet (2003). Publia.
*Souriez, on Vous Espionne. (Smile, we're watching you) foreword Patrick Rougelet, (2005). Le Cherche Midi.
*Snipers (2006) co-author
*13eRDP, shadow soldiers (2007) co-photographer
*SPHP, French secret service, foreword Nicolas Sarkozy (2007) co-author and photographer
*Mountain Special Forces (2007), co-photographer

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