AIDES CALL CHARGES 'COMIC' RED SPY REPORTED ON DE GAULLE STAFF

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: April 15, 1968
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AIDES CALL CHARGES 'COMIC'
PARIS (UPI) - French and
B r i t i s h newspapers today
charged a Soviet spy is work-
ing on President Charles do
Gaulle's personal staff.
A spookesman at the presi-
dential Elysee Palace de-
scribed as comical the reports
which likened the charges of a
spy on De Gaulle's staff -
who was not named - to Har-
old (Kim) Philby, the British
secret service executive who
turned out to be a Russian
agent.
"It's all very comic and we
are serenely awaiting the
revelations they say they will
make on this espionage af-
fair, the palace official said ,
of promised newspaper ac-
counts.
Aides in U.S. Cited
Le Canard Enchaine, a
? weekly satirical journal, first
published the report.
Accord- ing to the newspapers, the sto-
ry of the spy on De Gaulle's
staff came from Col. Thiraud?.
de Vosjoly, French secret
service liaison officer in Wash-.
ington with the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency. ,
De Vosjoly was said to have
been ordered home because of
too close ties to the CIA, to
have refused and to have re=
mained in the United States.
He was said to be living now
in the Miami, Fla., area.
Two London Sunday newspa-
pers, the Sunday Times and
the Observer, printed the re-
ports after Le Canard En-
chaine. The Sunday Times said
it will print next week a copy-
righted article showing "there
has been a traitor, a French
Philby, who pushed President
de Gaulle into anti-Western.
acts."
The French weekly said that
the character named Colom-
bine in a recent novel by
American author Leon Uris,
"Topaz," is based on a Do
Gaulle aide tied to Soviet -spy,
networks.
The newspaper reports here
and in Britain said "Colom-
bine" is the presmentlal chief
adviser and overseer of
France's Services de Docu-
mentation Exterieure et de
Contre-Espionage and the Di-
rection de la Securite Territor-
iale. The two agencies roughly
correspond to the American
CIA and FBI.
Serving With CIA
According to the reports, Do
Vosjoly tumbled onto the af-
fair while serving as the
SDECE man with the CIA. Philby was said to have
They said the information been the "third man" who
came to De Vosjoly from a tipped off British diplomat
senior Soviet espionage offs Donald Mac an and secret
cer, Anatoli Dolyntsin, who de- agent Guy Burgess in time for
fected to the West in 1961. them to escape British arrest
Dolnytsin has been reported i and flee to Mos ow in 1951.
to have been one'of the main Philby fled, t Moscow from
sources for the information Beirut 12 ye later.
that finally ended $hilby's ca-
reer with Britainf M16 secret'
service. Philby had served as
M16 liaison man to the CIA in
Washington' ana as chief of
Britain's anti-Soviet spy net-
work before being eased out.
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