FRENCH, PURSUING NAZI SS CHIEF, STYMIED IN BOLIVIA

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By Peter Bernstein She got a year in jail for the I of Klaus Altmann, who acquired
Netvhouse News Service 'incident, hut was released after a Bolivian passport and Bolivi-
Paris?A diplomatic scandal;' four months. Since then she and an nationalist status 14 years
is brewing over a beautiful girl,
a wanted Nazi who reportedly
, worked for the U.S. Central In-
telligence Agency, and an un-
yielding South American dicta-
tor. ?
The Nazi, say French and
her husband have been gather- ,ago. Barbies marriage date also
mg data on the hundreds of is the same .as Altmann's.
Nazi war criminals who have The chief key to the identifi-
gone unpunished. ..1 cation, Mrs. Klarsfeld says,
"All these criminals were re-: came when the International
habilitated and occupy high' Red Cross in Geneva, in a rare
posts, which is like declaring breach of its normal secrecy
over identification matters, ac-.
German police authorities, is their crimes were nothing, and "If there is a bad decision by
ceded to her request and re-!
Klaus Barbie, a Gestapo chief, may be done again," she says.
now said to be living a rich life
leased the fingerprints, identity, the Bolivian courts or if the.j
.in Bolivia tInder an assumed Lyons 'Hangman' , card, photograph and signature I state refuses extradition, it will
, under which Barbie-Altmann
name.
? At the top of her list is Bar-- traveled to SOuth Anierica in. be necessary to kill him." said
second visit last month she was
arested-three times and held for
extensive questioning.
A Po.ssible Killing
Interviewed recently in their
modest Paris apartment, both
Beate'and?Serge Klarsfeld doubt-1
ed that the Gestapo chief would'
be extradited..
bie, known as the Hangman of 1,95I. Serge. "If we can't arrfve at a
His w a r t i m e record in
;Lyons, who was twice condem- ? just decision by legal means, we
ned to death in absentia by Mrs. Klarsfeld turned the in- will use extra-legal means."
French courts for his wartime formation over to the French,
with had given up on Barbie in But they acknowledge that the
activities.
1930. German records, she said. chances for killing or kidnap-
.
B a r b i e had been Gestapo indicate French officials had
ping Barbie are not good. He is
chief in Lyons .in the German? twicequesti pried Barbie in an living in a luxury suite of a pri-
American intelligence office.
occupation and was convicted of, - vate clinic in La Paz, the Bolivi-
hut the American occupation .
having committed 4,342 mur-? near Augsbert after the war, an capital, and police are
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ders, of sending 7,591 people to; ? guarding ..him for fear of. such
.? authorities refused to extradite ? - ? ? ? - -
the gas chambers, and of au., h? an atternpt.
France, where he signed an or-
der transferring 41 Jewish
children to the gas chambers at
Auschwitz, is lurid enoug,h to
make President Georges Pompi-
dou of France demand Barbie's
extradition in a formal corn-
intimation.
But Hugos I3anzer, the Bolivi-
an strongman who rode to pow-
er last year in a military coup,
has turned Pompidou down. He
claims Bolivia does not have a
?normal extradition treaty with
Fr ance and prosecutes no
crimes older than 20 years.?
un.
resting thousands of French re-
sistance fighters. Among the According to the London Sun-
many who died in Bar bies day Times, Barbie worked regu-
hands was Jean Moulin, the larly for American as well as
Bonn intelligence after the war.
It was while working for the
CIA the paper said last month,
that Barbie was sentenced to
death in France.
leading martyr of the French
Desp it e Banzer's intransi- resistance, who was tortured to
gence, the Bolivian Supreme death.
Court is weighing evidence that
Ba,?bia used fraudulent papers Both Mrs. Klarsfeld and
to obtain Bolivian citizenship. If French and German authorities The -Gestapo chief is said to
his citizenship is nullified and maintain that Barbie has been have handed over to the CIA Jot
the Bolivian strongman relents 'living undiSturbed for the last 20? its secret files a list of promi-
Barbie may eventually face a
warcrimes tribunal in France
thanks to the relentless efforts
of a German girl who dug up
the evidence.
Iseate Kunzel, daughter of a
I Protestant working-class family
In Berlin, was a 5-year-old girl
when the Nazi Gestapo chief
sent the Jewish children to Aus-
chwitz.
Now 33 years old and married
?to Serge Klarsfeld: a French
!Jew, whose father also died in
I Auschv,itz, she first drew inter-
nent-Frenchmen who collaborat-
ed extensively With the Gestapo
AlUnann. They say records . -
, d u ri n g the occupation. The
show that he obtained false French, the article said, were
t r a Ye 1 documents in- 1951! not allowed by American au-
through an International Ited,, thorities to questiorr Barbie in
Cross organization ia Rome and detail after the war, and then
escaped to South America. only in the presence of CIA
his claim that Klaus Altmann :agents. The article added that it
was a minor German SS officerl maY have been with CIA, nelp,
never mur.. that he got his false Red Cross'
during the war who
; dered anyone was made to look , passport 41.05.1-
ludicrous by the exhaustive re-j Mrs: Klarsfeld is determined'
? search done by Beate Klarsfeld' to keep the spotlight on Barbie
and her husband, aided by \Vest no matter how many obstacles
German prosecutors. .
bar her way.
i .
'national notice In 1968She has gone to Bolivia twice
when she 1 Resides identical fingerprints
I i,lapped the face of Kurt George ' and looking alike, authorities in the hope of presenting evi-
Nesinger, then chancellor of , say, Barbie and his children derce to authorities there and to
wken
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. lust his having joined the i names and birth dates as those
- Nazi Party n 933.
1 i 1 0;',rii fi ro.: e c.'?
,-The.Klarsfelds,- together. with
three friends, tried* En kidnap
another Gestapo boss :in West
Germany last year, but the at-
tempt misfired. Their intended
lictim, Kurt. Lischka, now a
, uccessful businessman in Co-
logne, Was chief of the Nazi po-
lice in Paris. A top SS official in
Hitler's Gestapo, he was seri...
need in absentia to life impris-,
-onnient .by..a French. court for
his role in the deportation OC
100,000 French Jews to concen-
tration camps.
He is one of about 1.000 Ger-;
man war criminals who \\ ere:
cond emned in absentia hy.'
French courts but so fa-r have'
eluded prosecution.
After the kidnaping attempt
misfired (Lischka is a big man
despite his years and resisted*
and police rushed to his help),
Mrs. Klarsfeld showed up at the
local justice department, armed
with a dossier on the Gestapo
chief and admitted her role in
the attempted kidnaping. -
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French-U.S. tie
tightens vise
on drug trade
By Takashi Oka
Staff correspondent of The drug reaches Marseille in southern
The Christian Science Monitor France from Turkey in the form of mor-
Paris phine base, and is there refined into the
fine white powder that is pure heroin.
The "American connection" is beginning French traffickers are estimated to have
to pay off for the French police. made. $75 million from this operation last
year.
Obscured by months of public wrangling, Last year the American Bureau of Nal.-
French-American cooperation in narcotics cotics and Dangerous Drugs had 23 agents
control is recording some encouraging re- working in Europe, mostly in. France,
sults. while the French central narcotics squad
had two liaison agents as their "Ameri-
The latest is the arrest of Dominique Ma- can connection" -in New York. Working
riani in Paris Saturday and his being for- patiently and methodically together between
mally charged Wednesday with supplying Sept. 2 last year and Feb. 7 this year, the
44.5 kilograms of pure heroin to Roger De- French and American drug-control author'.
louette. Mr. Delouette was arrested at Port ties arrested a total of 23 persons, some-in
Elizabeth, N.J. last April on charges of the United States, some here in France.
smuggling the heroin into the United States. It was charged that these persons belonged
The Delouette case erupted into one of the to a network headed by a certain Joseph
biggest public scandals in France last year, Signoli, manager of a bar near the Arc
entailing sensational charges hurled across de Triomphe, who was arrested with nine
the Atlantic and within the rumor mills of others Jan. 17. .
French politics.
Confession reported 4
- Mt. .Delouette, it turned out, had worked
at one time for the SDECE, the French The French police believe that Roger
Delouette ieceived the heroin he smuggled
equivalent of the U.S. Central Intelligence
to the United States not from Colonel Four-
Agency. After being arrested, he claimed
nier but from Dominique Mariani, a known
that he had been supplied the heroin, worth
criminal said to be a member of the Sig-
$12 million on the black market in New
York, by a former superior in the SDECE, noli network;
a Col. Paul Fournier. His charge was taken Mr. Mariani is said to have confessed
seriously enough by the American authori, Tuesday that he supplied Mr. Delouette with
ties for a grand-jury indictment to be drawn the heroin he took to the United States. His
up naming Colonel Fournier as an accom- confession, if sustained, does not close the
plice of Mr.- Delouette. Delouette-Fournier case, but it increases
the credibility of a iiirmations by SDECE au-
Officials deny charge,
thorities that neither they nor Colonel Four-
SDECE officials indignantly denied the nier had anything to do with the affair. :
Delouette charge, and the colonel in ques-
In a speech to the American Club Tuesday,
tion appeared before a French judge in- American Ambassadar Arthur K. Watson
vestigating the case?Judge Gabriel Rous- paid high tribute to international cooperation
sel?to affirm his innocence. At this point in narcotics control. In 1969, he said, 456 kilo-
a former employer of Mr. Delouette, Col. grams of heroin or morphine' base were
Jean Barberoi, a onetime French ambas- seized by police in Europe. By 1911 the fig-
sador to Uruguay and now head of an agri- ure had risen to 1,340 kilograms. , ;
cultural cooperation service believed to be
"We've had marvelous help, marvelous
a cover for French intelligence agents, gave
cooperation from France," the Ambassador
an interview saying that Colonel Fournier's
said. "Our two nations are in the struggle
real name was,Paul Ferrer. together, we both fully understand this, and
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cotics smugglers and protecting the "big
wheels," French newspapers had a field
day speculating about "a settling of ac-
counts" within competing French intelli-
gence networks or even between SDECE
and the CIA.
From Turkey, via Msrseille .
Meanwhile, French and .merican police
and narcotics-contral agelits were patiently
trying to unravel the full dimensions of the
Delouette case and the much bigger story
behind it -:? the smuggling of larger and
larger amounts of heroin from France into
the United States.
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rii I- ..r 12..?, p.u.thbfities clid with thee
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? ? It. French press has accuaed
the CIA of doing much the
smile with Laotian and Cam-?
bodian opium.)
Inevitably, the, name of
Jacques FoecartShas been
mentioned: again in this case
as it was in the Ben Barka
affair. Foccart is nominally
secretary general of the
French-African Community
organization which has
'had no legal existence for,
these 11- years ? but his
? real business is .ensurin,
that all goes relatively
smeothly in former French':
black Africanpossesioiaa
Ills organization reput-
edly employs Many "bar-
,bouzes,"
a --By Jonathan C. Randal.
n,hington Pc!,t Foregn El!..rvi,:e Na \,-;',^.1'(11 '''-.Gallie-::: 'James Despite? the barra,ge Of de? -
Bonds is the Elmo:ledge that tailed charges - and count-.
i -PARIS?Over .the Ye''''s the French spy organization ercharges made public in the
-Scandals have so regularly. has defeated all attempts at past two weeks, SDECE it-
bwsirtiached the French serious reform ever since self ? has never seen fit to
.olaullteresPionage orgarliza- its Free French beginnings publish the: results of the
-tion- that the latest cause cc: hi Wonld War Ii London. reform urricd out at Gen..
lebre was greeted by .a car- . ' More' than 13 years of du Gaulle'a orders after the
toOn saggesting that -a wash- Gaullist rute 'llae. eontrib- }len Barka
ing ? machine was needed touted to an attrition of vigi- However, a Paris newspa-
handle the grclwing Volume lance, especially since Gault- per reported that of the
of official dirty linen. ? ists have always had a weak- s,.yimming pool's 1,500 oper-
InVolying a ? someiime??ness for clandestine opera- atives 506 were than purged
French spy charged with lions and questionable over- with 473 of them returning
:smuggling PG pounds Of her: atives. ? ? to the armed forces-whence
oin into the United States The Service du - Docum en- they had come.
last spring, the scandal has tation Exterieurc et de An official National As-
been connected by the press' Contrc-Espionnage -- pron- sembly 'report on SDECE
with a whole series of unsa; ounccd sdeck?has suffered complained that low - pay
vory real estate frauds in: through an American period, was discouragin'j, recull-
yolviiig the ruling Gaullists. foll-owed by the traumas of ment,a failing which may
' - The question of 'whether the Algerian war, hostility help to explain why so many
the scandals involve a CIA to the United States and the "barbouzcs" seem to get
?manet?..er to embarrass its end of once close links with intp serious trouble.
French counterpart or rival- Israel, only to be told to Symptomatic of- such ap-
ries within the French or: mend its American fences panent financial_ problems
gaajaatien is-_and promises during toe, past year or so.. were the cases of Roger
' - DeLonette, the center..of the
present ? scandal, and Andre
Labay, arrested here earlier'
in the fall for drug traffick-
ing. Both had worked for
SDECE. .
Quite apart from the "watt
of the clans" within SDECE,
which is real enough, the or-
ganization's real weakness is
in cutting the umbilical cord
with . its agents once they
have Ceased being useful. ..
There have been some
cases to suggest that unem-
to mel rain -- as murky as* inc previous IOW -Wale,
-the plot of .a cheap spy mark in the service's history
thriller. ? occured iii 1065 when agents
But what is immediately of the "swilrinitil pool"?as
at stake is the reputation SOECir? headquarters in
'
and political future of Presi- Paris is called after a near-
s were
dent Georges Pompidou and bY ports center ?
the Gaullist party, grown in- implicated in the mysterious
creasingli nervou kianmpina ana death of
s with -
di Ben Barka, a leftist
every new scandal and Meh
the
Morocan politician in exile.
approach of the 1073 legisla-
tive elections. At that time no fewer
What is also at stake--
es than 13 separate police and
it has been for
years ;fl. intelligence organizations
? were identified, and the
n.,
- France ? is the role of pi
French people became cc-cc1 i . a ?
:countercapionage and intel- . p barAmuzes" exercise
quainted withthe distill-. sufficient. leverage on their
:ligence. operation ma West-
- ? ern democracy. . - ? - - 1 guishing characteristics of former employers to afford
Tieing odd ends Of seem- the "barbouzes" ? or a cca::tain license in finding
? ingly unconnected cases into bearded 1 ones, as spies are . otl-a- means of support
t 'a
. 'ailed in argot. ? ' which!, are tot always above
'.on irrefutatole plo hs al-
. . ,
gangst
-..NVilyS :been an honored inter- It was not entirely sur- board.. ?
lectual pastime hi the land prising to learn that among - The threil er in
a -
- of Descartes whose citizens Den parka's abductors were volved in the Ben Barka
common law criminals who Case for example, had run
athav,e a natural penchant for
? ;. during the wartime occupaa houses of 'prostitution for a
the conspiracy tlicory of his
*ivy._ ? - . - -a - ' .. tion had worked for both' ion-. time a d w
nere allowed
,:a But the current spectacle the Germans and the Resist-. :tor disappear abroad witb an
"Of -.official and Unofficial alleei - . ease ?the governMent found
,spies :calhng ezleh ,hel. E` ?1' r, durino? the closing embarrassing. ..
Mies,' . 'compl o
It with days-- of the Algerian War, The question
...charges of high treason an the Gaullists recruited bar- raisel h
of ow SDF,CE is fi- those of Defense, Minister
Michel D'Are, who is tee mi
S.s.vered by. $200,000 slander bonzes -from like 'backa naneed beyond its rather
.suits, smacks of deja vu. ? grounds in - their - fighta slinay budget appropria- cally responsible for SDECE,
- - - '' ' - - '' such mined to keen Algeria china' -war, a Frene au c - s a . 91 61)9(17621
. More open to question are
such purely Gaullist unoffi-
cial organizations as the
Committees of Republic De-
fense and the Civil Action
SerVice which anti-Gaullists
have charged involve former'.
"barbouzes" _in all kinds of:
skulleirggery, ? including
:drug, traffield
aTheoreteallya they are a . .
kind :of Gaullist internal PC- ?
lice prtvide protection'
for Gaullist ermlitiana and
,worke.rs during electior
?
.-,s,There is apparently
founded speculation that
much of the French exploi,
tation of the 'scandals is
linked -to the legislative
electiOns .nbw -on the hori-
? 2011. . .
., Many -Frenehmen agreed
with Gen. -Pierre Billotte, a
former defense minister and
Gen. de Gaulle's. wartime
Chief of staff, who claimed
that SDECE was "no longer
the republican order" and
called for its "dissolution."
I'But his state rent was un-
..dercut by.- kncrwledge
that Billotte Alai. hoped -,tcl
take over --as the boss
SDECE and had been
turned down.
Nonetheless, his words
!Struck a deeper cord than
talon occasioned a I ?itiCIA-RDP8pItti 601 )ad
DeLou-
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ALLEGATIONS are flying -
thick and fast here in thevie
Cl fTh rm..m
t; ,,, #.--;.. a .?
lurid scandal that nas erupted
over France's espionage service.
It has been claimed that a
senior officer of French Intelli-
gence, was sacked last year on closely connected with 'the Gaullist
strengthened by an SDI:i.CE acciii, ' Wituin his first few weeks at the
suspicion of hi!-.1-1 treason, and recime may be involved in the
Thyrauci de Vosjoli, who defected SDECE, de Ntarenches tired 20 of
. . , ,
that .the intelligence service is to the Americans and alleged that the top executives. So an irnpor affair Ominously Herbert Stern
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engaged in large-scale drug- a senior French official w as ;a taut clement in the SDECE cc us the US State Attorney in enarr of
is is
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trafficking to su.pplcme.nt the investigations in New Jersey, its in- Soviet spy. the clash between. on the one lu.ncl;
told the French new.s!pa per
corne. -themen brought in by Pompidou- to
His story sounded too fantastic the other. L'Aurore this week that 'someone
The affair was triggered off by
lo be true. but now even informed ?cha nge the service, and on
- the arrest in the United States of Frenchmen concede that the Soviet the die-hard Gaullists in the servize? eise,' whose name could not lie
?
Roger Delouette, until recently ern- KGB possessed at one time incrim- who are trying to retain ther infflu-
revealed for the moment, was in-
ployed by the 'Service de Docu- inating material about some French ence on the service and prevent slaked in the casc.
mentation Etcrucure et de Contre- Intelligence executives and their renewed co-operation with CIA.- 'General Pierre Biliotte, a former
a prominent Gaul- Defence Minister and General
Espionage' (SDECE), the French wartime connections si ith the 'Last week'
list, el Roger . Barbera, de C.:miles wartime Chief of Stall',
. intelligence agency. He is alleced
Germans. This material. supplied Colon
charged that one of .thc.., executive demanded last nit that the
to have taken 90 kilos of heroin to the Russians by the French
worth $12 million into the US. Com muni arty fro m files seized who had been sacked Was su n
pc-ted SDECE should ,Ce disbaded
H has made the sensational a the end of he var. i sait to
..
st P
of 'hit.,..h treason.' Barberol is not ' We must .start 'from zero,' he S,Ifid
e t t. s i
. claim that he was acting for onejilist another Gaullist politician. A in an interview. 'Too nntny shady ?
of Frances intellicen m
ce chiefs. have exr.oced thcm to blackmail.
Thi.
Dcfen.:c mini.ster. N n
I. mic;ici c,:.rrsiii,ftan oFutsnt,ilndi fig war re- cfniracters have a-emainecl iii- 'the
ruia.ssador French intelligence service and too
KGB documents
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Deere, who is in chtirge of Intelli- in the Cer'llt.-allAfrietin Republic many foreign influences are still
genet!, lia? asserted tti-:E the syste- and in?UriuMay and a .founder of being exerted on them.' .Billotte is
? Last month. a French business- matic den.i:eation of LID: SDECE le-,.. ?? ? Can 4 ? ?
?%ing Ian:list organisations.
man Andre Labay.? allegedly an wzis proof of its exceqenee: ' Since 1968 he has 1-,e en chief of . onet, of Gthe leaders of the left wing
SDECE man stationed in Haiti, was Bui .ss the, days have zone by, it the- mYsterious Bureau for the D-- of 'lc aullist rntwenien(' '
detained here when police claimed has become increasinil-y evident The -SDECE, he added, had be-
velopment of Agricultural Produc- - '
to base found 106 kilos of heroin . --- - ? '
that the SDEC.E itself is a-ent by 'tion. oSiensibly operated by the Conic a state within the State'
in his car. In July, another man i
with SDECE links, Michel Mertz,
vio '
lent internal feuds. Foreign Ministry, but at least partly and was operating outside the laws
who went under the intelligence
President Poir,pidou appears to a cover for inteilicence activities, of the Republic and Government
pseudonym of 'Commandant have become concerned about.the 'The -man-. was not sacked for
control. Billotte also said that an
nothin,g.' Barberot said in a radio.
SDECE's affairs last autumn M lien
Baptiste, was jailed for live years 'anti-Pompidou . clan ' was still
interview. ' He was suspected of
he chose a family friend, Count
on drug ? charges. .
In an interview which caused Alexandre dc NIarenclies, to take hig'n treason. The people who say active inside SDECE. .
.
tremors licre this summer John charce of the service. 'The count's this are the very same ones who Billottc's St . ite ment, only 24
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Cusack, then European
brief was to eliminate undesirable. arrested a number of ' SDECE houv after the Defence Minister's ?
chief of
elements in the service and to con- agents who became compromised renewed attempt to brush off the '
the US Narcotics Bureau. bluntly
. with Communist Intelligence ser- entire affair shows that the '
charged that people in high places duct thorough reforms.
vices during the past 10 years:
in France were shielding drug i The President had his own griev- SDECE scandal is causing mount-
smugglers What rem ins obscure anee aga t
the SDECE. ; SolThz! Barberot also expressed his con- inc strains inside. the Gaullist
. a , s iri,s
IS whether senior SDFCE officials ot .the Gau,list diehards inside the vietion that a number of drug- movement,
know of any drug connection and, service tried to discredit him two
if so, whether they authorised it. sears ago when it became apparent
he was seeking to become General
- It has been said in the Press here
that the SDECE, as w de Gaulle successor.ell as other .
Western and Communist .intelii-? '
gence services, had become in- Debre annoyed -
,.... _ ..__
volved in drug snuigclin,, in recent However' . Marenclies's . primary
; years to augment tile funs at their ? . --
, mission,was to, adjust the direction
? ' ',disposal.' In the case o;.' the French,
*it was alleged, Ihe isfeeecelf frorn of French Intelligence operations.,
t
. drug traffic were rkpss,lect ;,,? swis Under General de Gaulle, it is said
bank accounts and.nvesied here. the SDECE had virtually
Flier\ -
in highly p,:or."m
-?e :c.,1 estAte ceased to concern itself with the
; :specithwon. Tne profits were uscd Soviet Union and other East Euro-
10 .financz intellig.,oneo operations pe.an. countries. NOSY the Com-
:for which no Government funds muntst bloc was to come under
. were aVai:als!e. . renewed scrutiny and collaboration
was to be restored with the CIA
? There are also persistent rumours '
and otherAlliedd services. A purge-
' that SDECE 's a eents were involved of SDFCF which led to the elimina-
, in counterfeit 'dollar traffic. The ? SDE ,CE
. -
lion Of .scille GnilliSt activists [lad
? pollee claim to have seized the sum ' already ' b 'een carr
carried out by the
of 17,400 counterfeit dollars at the j.?- ? -
service'sc?p deputy chief, Colonel
home of Delotiettes girl friend. Jacques Beaumont. ?
On a tqlrerent level, it is SDECE's
reliability as an -intelligence service
which/ is at stake. For many years,
the CTA has studiously avoided
intelligence co-operation with the
. Fren Ai because, it was believed, the
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smuggling operations had been'
organised With the complicity of
certain SDECE agents.
With the scandal getting -
enormous space in the trench
Press, M. Debre is becoming more
and more tests. The publicity was
unseemly, he said this week. The
-affair was worthy of the fifteenth
page in a third-rate paper..
At the very moment w,hen the
Minister was censuring the French
Press, de Marenches, the SDECE
chief, was being interrogated for
90 minutes by an eXamitung magis-
trate at the .law courts. All this
seek past and 'present Intelligence
executives have been turning up at
the-magistrate's office for question-
ing.
Already there are suggestions
that other prominent Frenchmen.
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Dirty linen :tumbles from the
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FROM OUR PAIS CORRESPONDENT
It. began as a trivial drug scandal.
And then the skeletons and dirty
linen started tumbling out of French
secret service Closet. When M. Roger
Delouette was arrested in New Jersey
last April, charged with drug smug-
gling?heroin, some 90 pounds of it?
he claimed to belong to France's
Service *de ;Documentation Exterieure
tt de .Gontre-Espionnage (SDECE),
and to have been acting under the
instructions. of his 'superior, a certain
Colonel Paul Fournier. French justice
was duly informed, and an ill-tempered
dialogue began between the New
Jersey prosecutor, demanding that a
rcase. be., brought against Colonel Four-
nier, and The French juse d'ins.truction,
Who wanted to question M. Delouette.
??In. the middle of this month the
full story started to spill out. The initial
-" unofficial" French version had been
that the Americans, and the Central
Intelligence Agent), in particular, were
trying to _embarrass the SDECE. Last
week, a certain retired C?olonel Barbe-
rot produced a quite different version
for Radio Luxembourg.. The affair,. he
suggested, was a fall-out, from the 1970
purge of the organisation that followed
the appointment of its neW director by
President Pompidou. He argued that
the drug smuggling operation had prob-
ably been mounted by members of
the old regime, Sand that the new
regime had itself denounced M.
'Delouette to the Americans in order
to get rid of him. And who was really
behind M. Delouette ? The colonel
hinted that it wasn't Fournier (real
name Ferrer, he said) and vigorously
emphasised the links between M.
Delouette and yet another colonel, a
certain Colonel Beaumont, who had
been a director of research for the
SDECE before falling victim to the
1970 purge. Colonel Barberot claimed
.that he had been suspected of treason.
At this -point the balloon -went up
- and fog and dirty linen came 'down.
-The judge concerned at once demanded
the tape of Coloilel Bar berot's radio
=
Fournio.r?or somebody?is staying under wraps
? interview . and hits been questioning
/him and some .former, agents ever
since. Colonel' Beaumont in 'turn broke
cover on Monday, declaring that he
was the victim of a Plot, 'had never
met M. D.elouette although .he knew
the latter had been considered for a
mission, and . that he would .sue.
Colonel Barberot for slander.
Inevitably the affair. has become
political, not least ? because ? the
" treason " hinted at is ?a reference to
the political basis of the SDECE, purge
?the removal, that is, of the numerous
agents who under- General de Gaulle
had been busier spying on France's
allies than on its nominal enemies.
But who is gunning for whom ? Colonel
Barberot is a lett-wing gaullist, and
presumably no *lover of the new regime.
M. Michel Debre, the defence minister
under whose wing the service operates,
has given the body his full backing.
Has Fournier-Ferrer been named
because the ? new regime wanted him
out of the way too, or because victims
of the purge (which he survived) did,
or because he, was actually drug.
smuggling, or merely because M.
Delouette hoped to save? his skin by
.naming a fictitious accomplice ?
:: And how is it that Colonel Barberot
knows so much about the SDECE ?
His only visible connection with the
case is that he runs the Bureau .for
the Promotion Of Agricultural Pro-
duction which once employed M.
Delouette. This innocent-sounding
body supplies third-world countries
with experts in agriculture. . .
The press is having a field day with
.every combination of answers to thee
questions the opposition papers accord-
ing to their lights, the pro-government
France-Soir gallantly soldierinc, on with
the theory that the whole tiling is a
CIA plot. For this theory it has found
all manner of supporting evidence?
attributed . to happily anonymous
. sources in Switzerland.
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. , WASHINGTON ? It might
?have beep the man from
/.N.C.L.E. Or, since 'truth is
consistently cornier than fiction,
the CIA's theory is he was a
counterspook.
-Whoever he was, he appeared
dignified, erudite, prc.perdy
'structured and every inch the
high French official which he
represented himself to be. When
he turned off the asamps Ely-
sees into tile American Embas-
sy in Paris, he carried a well-
tailored, .itacliscri Ave.-type re-
port ? with statistics and opin-
lions attached.
' In effect, what the French
i gentleman aerospace engineer -
, economist said in his heavy doc-,
ument presented to U.S. diplo-
i nia.ts was that t h e BritEtl-
1 French supersonic aircraft, the
t Concorde, was not viable, It
? Iitside Labo-r
FOkALs..Yu2d of
was not ' economic. It will
never really be built. The
report seemed to prove conesa-
sively that the Concorde Ntlauld
never make it. It would never
be put into production.
The French "government of-
ficial" left taking his impec-
cable credentials with -him n end
leaving his incredible , report
behind. This was well over a
year ago and our ambassador
to the Elysee Palace was Sar-
gent Shriver. He dispatched it
by poush to the State Depart-
ment which routed it along to
other government agesic-ies. ?
asking what economic impact
would it have on the US if we
built a supersonic transport
(ssr) and the French and Bri-
tish did not. What would happen
to our balance of trade as we
increased travel speed?
No idle question, this..
If we build, a supersonic
transport which can carry some
2.-I0 to ;00 passengers to Europe
in 2 hours and we fly a numiher
of daily round trips,. American
tourism would rocket and doll-
ars would 'pour o',ft of the U.S.
Now, if the British and French
were not -going to build an
Sns, if the Concorde really v,sts
? being abandoned as the myster-
ious Frenchman would have our
Paris embassy believe, then the
flight of European tourists into
the U.S. certainly would not
match the outilicw and we, tole
'U.S. ? would .Lose hundreds of
millions of - dollars annually
in the tourist balance of-trade.
So why spend millions row on
an American SST?
But we do have some aerno?
space experts in the U.S. They
knew that the strange, albeit
highly polished, report handed
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to our embassyin -Paris Oentra-s?
dieted 'reports from. French-. Ir:.
du.strial and aerospace eireIeS.
So - the Central Intelligence A-?
gency and Mr Force intellisrence--
moved in. They Wand /enough
to con since thernse.lves-that the-
misteryi visitor was a French..
spook. ?? ;' ? ?
The British arxt French. cer-
tainly wcre speeding the Can-,
corde along. It was in advanced '
stages hour after hour., If it .
Moved out fast, without. facing
Arnerk:an eon:petition, it cruld.
cut then f$1-il billion worth of .
commercial flying equipment ?
which will be sold during the.
next ID years. '
At this moment the-U.S. 661?
inates the oanuriercial aircraft
industry. It sells -85 -percent of
all such carries. Our s.esas2aee
industry means b.?ead as-A but-
ter -for-.. more
,workers than does any other ?
'includirg--auto and s:eel.
the. Frenclarr.a.nS ploy was-
no :happy -. ending television
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Letter From I Paris
Garaudy Proves -Party Headache
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By MARGOT LYON Alexander Dubcek. Garai* took deeply to ' 'i INSTEAD. FRENCH and Czechs have
PARIS?Last week the central committee ? heart the entire Czechoslovak tragedy, accused both Garaudy and Dubcek of being
of France's Communist Party expelled one when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague and '. agents or dupes of the United States. The
of its most prominent members, Roger overthrew the Dubcek regime because N
Garaudy who for over 30 years has been dared to think for it Czechs so-called reformers, said a leadingself and trled to stab' :.
lish some fr-Pdom in Czechoolovaltia. 'Czech paper this week, 'have in ther.r great
., majority become mercenaries of the
Brief Criticism. . American Radio Free Europe.'
Garaudy himself has brushed aside all
After being stripped of his ? membership .
party has taken '; allegations of loyalty to anything except,
.of the French Politburo and of his post as . It seems the French
director of the Marxist Research Center, the accusations seriously?so much so that the cause of true socialism. He has come
,
Garaudy was harmed from his local party.. its daily paper, l'Humanite, this week took .. -up fighting once More this week 'in the
' cell last month at aiennevieres sur Marne,. i the unusual step of printing a two-page bourgeois press," saying that important sec-
where he lives outside Paris. Today he ? spread of notes of a Private conversation lion of ted by Humanite. Ile also repeats
has no status at all?except that he is- between Dubeek and French party leaders once more that France's Communist lead-
proving one' of the party's biggest head. during July 1968. One of the most inter ? ershii is dictatorial, and cares nothing
aches. esting revelations of the tants is Dukelt's ?? about the workers 'except their obedience.
He has started one of the noisiest pa answer when the French (speaking for
lemics that the French party has ever the Russians) complained- that anti-Russian . .WOtkers Sit Up
experienced, and attacks the soviet union.' forces were gathering in the country and;
as well. Now they, and not he, are de-, . that Dubcek was doing nothing to crush ., Ile is certainly making a good many
fending themselves while the entire French them. He replied. 'I admit our people have French workers sit up and think hard
public watches with the greatest interest., become become Nightly .drunk with rediscovered about -the party they usually blindly sup-
liberty' but he refused to do anything to , port. And just at this moment, by chance,'
Noise Startling
.. stop them. -a new movie with popular French stars.
i France has the Western world's second When the Russians arrived to stamp Yves Montand and Simone Signoret has
I- biggest Communist party, with about 24 , down all liberty in the country and an an. just been, launched here, that tells even
1
' per cent of the total vote in every election.' cry went up from all over the world, the more about the ruthlessness of Communist
Usually when Communists are rebuked by French Communist party openly censnred ? methods. It is the true story 01 a Czech i
the top French leadership they suffer in ...Soviet action?for the first time in its ? ' deputy minister of foreign affairs in the
silence, and the party is obviously sur-.; history. But its criticism of its Russian ' government of 1949. While still minister in
?
prised and taken aback by the amount of 'masters did not last long. Within a few office he was kidnaped, imprisoned and
. noise Garaudy is making?especially as weeks it made its peace again vith the forced to confess that during his years as
t his accusations against them concern in- . Soviet politburo and officially closed the : a hero be had been on the ? secret Pay at
c temational affairs and in particular, subject. At last February's congress, Czech
French Communists' role in the stifling delegates from the Russian-imptised puppet .. The,scenes of his interrogation and
/,of the Lrst signs of liberty in Czechosio? regime attended as 'honored guests. Only ' . torture are painful to see?and the star,
vakia almost two years ago. - '7, Garaudy Went on being seriously disturbed ' 'Yves Montand with his wife Simone Sig-i
I- GARA1JDY SAYS that the present and wrote a bock condeming , Russian 1 '.noret, were known as party sympathizers.
French Marxist leadership under Its hind-' action, in Width be pleaded that Prowl , ...Their willingness to play in-this filet gives
line chief. Georges Medias. helped In the'. "lady alight Ibietbs ,tlifott eft Soilst Ised ( it immense einatlarill impost an the rniFis
a leading intellectual of the party until he
was condemned at the party congress last
February for criticizing the Soviet Union.
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