MAURIAC LINKS CIA TO KIDNAP OF BEN BARKA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100360043-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: January 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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"Aid.i-Gaullist Ambush"
He called the whole incident an,
'anti-Gaullist ambush."
"A few days before or after
en Parka's clisappearance," wrote
curiae, "a Moroccan friend Who
knows well such things talked to
ne about the close connection be-
wecn Gen. (Mohannnc(l) Oufkir
(Moroccan interior minister sus-'?
ected by sonic of being the man
behind the kidnaping) and they
American secret service.
"Whether it is `true or not, T.
lon't know," continued Mauriac7.
But if these services are intro-
ent in this affair, then it is the
evil who played for them."
l;;un?iac's column was. called,
'untrue" and "stupid" by French,
iplomats.
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