GENERAL JACQUES CHABAN-DELMAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100010044-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: November 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Trance
SUBJECT General Jacques Chaban-Delmas
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1. General cquee ChabaneDelmas Is president of the DPAS, formerly t .b* R17
He is 38 years of ag*,P b6rnn In the, th4rteenth arrondiesemsent of Paris,a of a good f .ly
om southwestern Frneec He took the name Chaban during, the - Eeel stance and added' it
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o his real family name after the war, He was a second 1ieut t i. the Army of the.
Alas! but had no ooportumity to see action durimm the ware Ha 'entered the Resistance'
immediately after the armistice. In 194 he was an official in industrial production.
In the same year he entered the inspection of finance and. joined the "Action" network,
which wor' ed out afLondon 'under t e' direction of Maurice Bourget-Manoury.
2. In 1944, he was delegate of the Rational Reeis~ance, with the rank of
brigadier genera,, concerned with military caerations within the occupied territory.
He seared as liaison officer between General Kbnig, in London, and Alexander Parodi
in Paris. At the Liberation, he belonged to the orga)izatiot bureau of the army. In
IL945 he.became general secretary at.the' Tnformation Ministry, with Jacques Soustelle
and re MAIraux. He resigned in, 1946, after the withdrawal of General, de Gaulle.
In 1~ he became duty of the Radical Socialists, elected in Bordeaux where he has
beer, steadily reelected ever since. He became mayor of Bordeaux in 194'.
3. He has a reliable character, is rather snappish, very independent in his.
attitude, but in his friendships true to the bitter end. Be remains as true to General.
de Gaulle as he was in the beginning, has never forsaken him, not even in the last
serious crisis, He Is a realist, with a clear mind, is without prejudice in international,
relations.
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