ADD SPICES AS PLOT THICKENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100350059-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: February 20, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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371 was assassinated, the French probably more
than any other people have remained ob-'
sessed with the idea that it must have been a
plot-that it could never have been the
work of one only psychopath thinking it up
all. by., himself and never telling anybody
'what he intended to do. % -
{ ' One of the reasons for this French obses-;
:pion is that if a Frenchman wants to do.
`'l away with somebody, he immediately heads
for the local bistro and' asks a couple of pals
?;,to help him-after which they all settle
down to elaborating a scheme of intricate
maneuver and wild diversionary complica-
lions.
The French public is currently being en-
tcrtaiiled with two classic ooxam les,of thus
mentality at work. The first is the fleii
{ 'Barka case--the kidnapping and apparent!
murder of a Moroccan political leader with
the connivance of agents of the French Se-
Don Cook" is chief of The Tunes' Paa?ia
Bureau.
cret Police. The second case is a trial now.in
'..'progress of no fewer than 15 men who
narrowly failed in an attempt to assassinate
President Do Gaulle in the summer of 1964
with a radio-controlled bomb planted in a
huge flower vase.
c The Ben Barka case is particularly inter-
esting because the events of this sordid as-
sassination plot somewhat resemble in a ge-i
c,neral way the favorite French theory about)
the alleged "plot to assassinate President
liennedv.
According tp this' French theory, certain)
I;'' agents of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-i
lion and the Dallas police wanted to get rid!
of President Kennedy because he was tool
liberal. So the Dallas police then put .Lee!
Harvey Oswald up to killing the President,;
,;,'.,and the FBI deliberately withheld from;
'the Secret Service the fact that Oswald was
x. present in Dallas-a nut who had Marxisti
r: views and had ' lived in Russia and who
'ought to have been under surveillance dur.
rifts. the Presidential 'visit, ' A t t e r that,
?r, the Dallas 'police conveniently arranged to,
{:`have Jack Ruby, who owed thern.a service?
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