NOBEL AUTHOR LINKS CIA TO BEN BARKA PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100360044-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: January 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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links CIA
'Bon Barka Plot
By BERNARD VALERY
Special to The Inquirer
And N. Y. Daily News }
Jan. Zt.-MIC Milt
States Central Intelligence Agen
cy was accused Thursday of in
volvement in the kldltaping an
probable denth of Moroccan left
wing opposition leader Mend
Ben Barka. High French Govern
ment sources strongly denied th
accusation.
N o b e l Prize-winning atitho
Francois Idauriac, a pro-Gaullis
columnist for the magazine L
Figaro Litteraire, said In his col I
umn that even some Gaullist
had begun sniping at Presiden
Charles de Gaulle over the Be t
CALLED AMBUSH
lie called the incident an "ant'
Gaullist ambush."
"A
few days before or afte
L'en
Barka's disappearance,
wrote
Maurine, "a Alorocca
friend
who knows about
suc
things
talked to 1ne about
th
close
enonection between
Ge
(Mohammed) Oufkir (Morocco
Interior Minister suspected b
some of being the man behind th
kidnaping) and the America
Secret Service.
"Whether it is true or not,
don't know," continued Mauria
"But. . if these services or
innocent in this affair, then it I
the devil who played for then.
COLUMN CRITICIZED '
Mauriac's column was callc
alit rue " a n d " stupid " b
French diplomats, because
complicates for public opinio
what otherwise is a clear cas
connivance between Moroeca r
,ccret service agents headed b
Oufkir and some agents of th
of the case fizzled when a tape-ie'
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an
recording seized in the home o(I
a key figure turned out to be!
billed in advance as the eyewit-'
ness testimony of the I a t el
Georges Figon concerning his
own, somewhat foggy role in the!
case.
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