Wiki Leaks Release  Proves US Threatened ‘Retaliation’ To Bully EU Into Accepting Monsanto's Biotech Crops Reacting to a French pledge to represent  the  "common interest" in considering biotech foods, a former US ambassador recommended publishing a "retaliation list".In a confidential communication dated Dec. 14, 2007 and released by WikiLeaks on Sunday, then-US Ambassador to France Craig Roberts Stapleton recommended creating the list if France and the EU continued to ban biotech seeds.The former US official added that France's "High Authority" on agricultural biotech was particularly offensive because it sought to "roll back established Monsanto based decision making." Craig Stapleton, former US ambassador to France was concerned that a French decision to suspend cultivation of Monsanto's MON-810 corn could spread anti-biotech policy across the EU.