SPY CHARGE CALLED CIA PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200660031-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: April 13, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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By NESTA ROBERTS - slice and intelligence services.
PARIS - The tale of "a So-
viet network in French govern-
ment circles," details of which
have been promised In forth-
coming issues of Life magazine
and the London Sunday Times,
is simply one move in a cam-
paign of reprisals organized by
the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency against the French, ac-
cording to the latest issue of
Le Canard Enchaine.
The French satirical weekly,
which has a reputation for "dis-
closures" which often prove to
be well founded, has already
provided a crib for Leon Uris'
novel "Topaz," published (but
not in France) last year, which
describes the "infiltration" in
fictional form.
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"French Philby" was Jacques
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United.States. agents who had defected to the
This, thinks Le Canard, West had given information ?
makes De Vosjoly, rather than which had led to the arrest of.
Foccart, the "French Philby." a number of their fellows,
De Vosjoly is the author of the among them Georges Paques,.*
memoirs to be published in Life French press attache with the
and the London Sunday Times, North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
Le Canard's thesis Is that De tion.
Vosjoly has personal reasons to One of the agents suggested
feel resentful against the. also that a top-rank agent had
French counter espionage serv- infiltrated into French govern-' ice.? ment circles and was responsi l
sition:Involves.overseeing;of po-Igrudge' against .the ' French'., j-An'inquiry,was set afoot but{