BEN BARKA TRIAL HEARS ORLY LOUNGE WAS BUGGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100350034-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: September 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

S EP 2 4 1966
AppW hqr Release. 2001/07/26 : CIA-RDP75-00149R
en Barka: Orly Lounge.Was Bugged
By JOHN L. HESS
special to The New York Times
ept. - micro
phone was hidden behind a
Picasso in a reception room.
for distinguished visitors at
Orly Airport, it'was testified
today.
That the V.I:P rooms at
Orly are bugged was divulged'
by a high. French counter-
espionage officer who is a de-
fendant in '? the.- Ben Barka
trial.
The officer, Maj. Marcel Le
Roy, alias Finville, is accused
of having failed ? to report
knowledge of a" crime, the.,
kidnapping of the Moroccan
opposition leader, Mehdi Ben
'Barka, from the 'Boulevard
Saint-Germain last Oct. 29. It.
is generally assumed here
that Mr. Ben Barka was
murdered.
For. two ?~ days, witnesses:
and 'lawyers had hammered'
at Major Le_ Roy's denial that`
he knew of th'e plot." An aide
estified that 'on the after-': the rendezvous . had. taken tile. Major Le Roy replied that
oon of Oct. 29 he had indeed place.. '..' there had been a great deal to
eceived a telephone message This afternoon, lawyers, for , do when his, chief arrived
o "Thomas" -another ..f .''Mr. Ben Barka's family=thefrom abroad -arranging for'.
ajor Le Roy's code names- victim as well as the accused him to pass through customs,'
rom "Don Pedro." may be represented In French, and ihe.police check and .tot
Don Pedro was Antoine . proceedings-hammered away ;Ii.-.meet with his aides.
opez, 'a defendant who was at Major Le Roy's account, of .P. ; However, the general. de- i
at the same time an Aii, his own doings at the time of nied that he had sought con-
France official at Orly, an the kidnapping. spicuous special treatment on q
nformer'for the French in- Major Le Roy had testified:i his arrivals, and .Lopez, ris
elligence service and an anti- ' that he went to Orly before;.: ingi said that all that ever.(
ate of French gangsters, 10 A.M. and ? remained until. ,had been necessary was . to M
and Moroccan politicians. , .,early afternoon to greet' his tell him, Lopez, that someoneI
Lopez has testified that he superior, Gen. Paul Jacquier; ':'was 'coming .and it was all,
rganized the kidnapping for,. then head of the S.D.E .C.E., -,taken care of.
the Moroccan Minister of the. '..,the .French equivalent of the Visibly' vexed, Major Lei
Interior,! Gen. Mohgmmed ',United, States Central Intelli- Roy said' he had another im-i
Oufkir, but insists that he did , Bence Agency. , portant. duty-to see to it,
it with the knowledge and,, Why, the Ben Barka law- that the room where they
ap~roval of his superiors in yers ? demanded, 'did it take chief met his aides was not I
the intelligence service hours to greet the general? bugged. It is widely known,,
through Major LeRoy.. , ' Major Le Roy said 'the gen. " he geclared, that reception
An aide' of Major Le Roy's ,,'eral's plane had' been late.' rooms at Orly are bugged.
testified yesterday, in the. :: ? General Jacquier, who' lost,!, "Don'?t you know," he said to'
ace of the major's 'denial , ` his post in `the' aftermath of General Jaquier,. "that there,
that he had received the'.,, the Ben Barka scandal, testa were listening posts in Salon:
message and passed it on tb 'fled that-as far as.he knew.-`Number 1 at Orly where you
bas chief, The message said tj-p plane I3ad.4 been bg sohed W Let e opez eleapedeveraland ec red;
it, behind the Picasso picture;
,.' The chief trial': judge, Jean
Perez,- demanded, "For whose
account was this 11stening serv+'
? "N.ot. ours, anyhow," Loper!';
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Approved For Release 2001/07/26; CIA-RDP75-00149R000100350034-9