BEN BARKA CASE TAKES NEW TURN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100350015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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whereabouts was not apparent., kidnapping take its course only
BEN BARKA CUBE E i A communique issued inRabat.l to step in at the right moments
by'lkin Hassan's office. said he to, save Mr. Ben Barka, blacken)
T had, flown to Paris during the; the conservative Moroccan;
~ES I~1EYYU night, but the French policr'Gpvernment and win credit for'
said there ,was no record of his; Prance in nationalist African
arrival. circles.
Moroccan Official 'Re' hr tier to ling Hassan ported ~fo a the kidnapping an unidenti-
Ready to Stand Trial
By HENRY TANNER'
? ? Special to The Now York Times
O CT ,19 1966
The Moroccan communirOW fled - Interior. Ministry official
said that Colonel Dlimi had giv-called the policemen who were
en ,his wife it, letter to the King to spirit Mr. Ben Barka 'away
advising him that he was going and authorized them to ado sb:
to Paris to clear his name and
the name of his country. He,
Barka case took a sensational
ew turn today:
Col. Ahmed Dlimi, head of
he Moroccan secret police,
vho. was due to be tried in `
.bscntia for his participation,
n the kidnapping and prob-'
ble. murder of ,%,Iehdi Beni
arka, a ? Moroccan nationalist'
cader, was reported to have;
town to Paris to give himself
p.
Also, a former Algerian!
)olitician boasting close eon-,
acts with prominent Gaullist
ersonalities said in a news
nagazine that high officials of
he French police and Interior
inistry had known (of the:
lot to kidnap Mr. Ban Barka!
nd had intended to exploit it',
olitically, I
The new complications came
n ~the eve of the scheduled'
Crulination of the trial of five
'renchmen and a Moroccan ac-i
used of participating in Ben
arka's abduction. ? Verdicts!
cneduled to be handed down:.
omorrow.
On Thursday the same same
ourt was scheduled ' to hand'
own a judgment in absontia
n the Moroccan Defense. Min;;
ster, Gen.' Mohammed 'Oufkir,
s well as ow Colonel Dlimi and'
third. Moroccan official 'and
our French gangsters.
Delay in Trial Asked
If, as was expected, those
erdicts, confirmed the French
overnment's contention that
uilt in the bizarre affair was
united to subordinate French;
igures and high-ranking Moroc-~
an officials, the affair was to 4
isappear from the headlines.
It was also expected that
resident de Gaulle, in the news;
onference he has scheduled for.
et. 28, would draw the con
lusion n that General Oufkir was''
ulpable and that the French;;
ecru exonerai.ea. i
Now the outcome is in danger!:
f ticing upset.
Lawyers for. the Ben Barka:'
artily, which Is the plaintiff,.
swell as those for the defcn-
ants urged that the trial be
djourned to permit the inclu-
ion of new testimony.
Nacerdine Challal, the Al
erian politician whose testl
lony appeared In the left-wing.
ei lily Nouvel Observateur, has
eglared himself willing to ap
. .
Appro 200 1107?,
olice and Interior Ministry,,,
hose role has been castigated',
y lawyers during the trial, had:,
hat he was the only Moroccan;
,fficial involved in the abduc
ion. `Such a declaration would,
Iih, French Interior Ministry a
lie French intelligence agency..
bout it. The Interior, Ministry
e{ties having _had anything to
lid Algerian politician, bears
eZvous bptweon Mr. Ben Barka'
nd a Moroccan Governmen f
gainst his own better judg-,
ing. But Mr. Lemarchand, he
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