SECOND LIST OF CIA AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300480023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 15, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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Paris, January 14
A second list of 12 alleged
CIA agents - operating in the
American Embassy- here was
published today by the extreme
left-wing newspaper, .Libera-
tion.
The allegations have been
taken up by the S:,ciatist Warty'
and there are signs that, on
the Right. some Gaullists will
also bring pressure on the
French Government to act
against alleged CIA activities.
The chief spokesman for the
Socialist Party-, M Claude
Estier, said today' he had had
a chance of verifying the auth-
enticity of Liberation's list.
"The publication helps to show
that our country has not been
spared the activities of the CIA
and we know what -results I
such activities have had. abroad,
as in. Chile, Portugal, and
Italy,
DI Alexandre Sanguinetti, a
leader of the Gaullist Party,
which forms part of the
Government, told Liberation :
"The nation wanting to be free
must chase off the spies of all
powers, especially the big ones.
Had I been Minister of the
Interior, I would have dealt
with the affair ]ong ago."
The Minister of the Interior,
M Poniatowski, belongs to the
Independent Republican Party
of President Giscard ' d'Estaing.
A Socialist spokesman would
not say tonight how M Pastier
had been able to verify the list,
hut it now seems very- likely
that some at least, if not most
of the names on the list, belong
to real CIA agents. Because of
latent anti-Americanism in his
own camp. the affair may prove
as embarrassing to President
Giscard d'Estaing as to the
Americans.
A Socialist Member of Pariia,
mcnt. Al Georges Fillioud,
tonight tabled 'a motion draw-
ing the Prime Minister's atten-
tion to the CIA list, "which has not been challenged," and.
urging the Prime Miniser to say
whether France intend-^d to be
" less severe with the CIA than
the American Congress."
In the first official reaction
to the affair, the Ministry of
the interior issued a statement
tonight saying that French
information services bad " no
part" in the puhlicatiou of the
names."
The. statement added that
" in most cases ' foreign agents
it
working l-?rc Were known and
watched. " In cases where (hey
are found to interfere in inter-
nal affairs, they are asked to
leave or brought before the,
security court."
There has been no editorial
Comment yet, but in a short
and irascible note. printed in
italics after its news report, the
newspaper. L.e islonde. said
tonight : " By definition, secret
services work in secret, It is
for the managers of these
organisations. and for them
alone, to take the necessary
precautions for fulfilling this
condition of the task, and to
change round thei4 :,tiff when
agents are discovered.
"It is not a priori infamous
to work for such services,
which exist in every country.'
What creates the problenl is
the nature of the mission
entrusted to these organisa-,
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