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CIA-RDP82-00457R005200630006-3
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RIPPUB
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S
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1
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November 9, 2016
Document Release Date: 
March 26, 1999
Sequence Number: 
6
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Publication Date: 
July 19, 1950
Content Type: 
REPORT
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App rovedW A'al1 ID ENTIAL CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. I FO ATOO REPORT CD NO. 25X1A COUNTRY France SUBJECT Biographical Information on Leon Feix 25X1A 25X1A NO. OF ENCLS. (USTED BELOW) SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. Leon Jean-Baptiste Feiz, previously reported as the official representative of the French Communist Party (FCP). in French llorth Africa, is now a member of the FOP Central Comnitteea He was born on 10 June 1908 at Forges (Gorreze) in France, lie was formerly a teacher and a manager of an agricultural cooperative in the Lot department, Feix left the Section Franeaise do l'Internationale Ouvriere (SFIO) in 1935 in order to join the FCP, He is considered to have been the founder of the FCP in the Lot department where he was Federal Secretary before the war, As a reserve officer in 1939, Feix was assigned to the General Staff of the 17th military region, lie was arrested in October 1940, and interned at the Nexon camp, the Bossuet Redoubt, and, finally, in Oran, 2a Sometime in 1941-1942, Foix escaped from prison, lie subsequently became liaison agent between the FCP in Algeria and the Algerian Communist Party. 3o Leon Feix has made a few unpublicized visits to the Lot department since the Liboration, but source claims that most people have now forgotten him as the promoter of the Party in that area, He has recently returned to Lot for a visit, FCP circles are now speculating on the possibility that he my run for mayor of Saint-Cere, This document is hereby regraded to CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the letter of 16 October 1978 from the Director of Central Intelligence to the Archivist of the United States. Next Rev'evi Date: 2008 HAW N#RB DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION WAVY NSRB tt AIR ~ F61 AIR - 1 I r6! 1 ARMY * I --J-E + CONFIDENTIAL CLASSIFICATION ~~Cl.1~i?~8?e ^v~:3 3LY Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005200630006-3