FRANCE SMASHES SECRET ARMY TERRORIST RING

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130029-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: May 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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1NCE SMASHES SECRET ARY..
TERRORIST RING
Sp Unlicd Press Interaatiaenl , ; He urged Frenchmen to break-Up of the ring. Police
PARIS. . back his government hnd pre- said more arrests were likely.
A terrorist ring led by two vent a return to the past ! The plotters were charged
high police officials with with subversive activity.
Secret Army organization political instabiitty. His re- I Pollee said the network war;
(OAS) connections was giro would "soon" get a public I discovered during a routine
broken up in western France ! vote of confidence, he said, check of political agitators
two clays before President; in a reference to next Deter
Charles de Gaulle toured bee's presidential elections "'- bcfore.thev'tesident'& tour,
there, French authorities an But he did not say whether
pounced yesterday.. he would run for a new
Twelve persons were ar- seven-year term.
rested, including the secret!. Throughout the trip-the
police chief for western' 22d since he became Presi-
France, Jean Bigorre, 46, and, dent in January, 1959-Gen.
his deputy, Pierre Castellano, : de Gaulle received a warm
52. Police said the ring had , welcome. Trade unions and
not planned to assassinate' farming associations, dissatis-
Gen. de Gaulle, who has sur-' fied with government price
vived four attempts on his! Policies. failed in their effort'
life. to effect a boycott of the trip.
In a ;;beech at La Flechc, Police said the plotters ar
windim, up his five-day tour, rested last; week were in con
Gen. de Gaulle again urged tact with sailed OAS members
pan end to the "tyro hcgemmi and with'
ith two fugitive OAS
its"-American and Soviet leaders who have been sell-
rivalry for domination over'I tented to death for the at-
the world--which lie said; tempted overthrow of the
brought on the cdnfiicts in government.
Vict Nam and the Dominican. The OAS, formed by Euro-
Republic.
peans in Algeria who opposed Gen. de Gaulle said France Gen. de Gaulle's plans to_i
is the only nation capable grant independence, waged a.'
international balance of power
based on total independence
of all peoples.
The division of the world
between the two "colossi"
after World War II was a
"system which- does ndt in-
sure international peace," he,1
said,
"One can see this day after
day at this moment; on our:
former Indochina and in the
Carribbean and tomorrow God.
I. knows where." .
ized several anti-de Gaulle
plots. With its leaders rounded
up or, in exile, it has lost most
of its power.
Pistols and propaganda
materials were seized in the'
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