BEN BARKA'S VANISHING SPURS TRAILS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100350046-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: June 9, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 9 1966
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'Interior Minister, Mohamme
Oufkir, will'be tried in his ab
sence by a Paris court for th
kidnaping of Moroccan oppo
sition . leader Mehdi' Be
Barka In Paris in October, th
Paris appeal court decide
here today.
It ruled that five persons de
tamed in connection with th
kidnaping would stand trial on
'charges of "illegal arrest and
arbitrary deteneion."
Seven others allegedly in-
volved in the kidnaping would
be tried in their-absence at
the same trial.
They are Oufkir, whom the
French allege organized the
kidnaping, M. Ahmed Dlimi,
assistant director of state se-
' eurity - in Morocco, Miloud
Chtouki, a Moroccan police-
man, and four French under
world figures, former gangster
Georges Boucheseiche. - at
whose suburban' home X3en
Barka was alleged to have
} been held following his kid
naping , and three alleged as
complices; Julien' Lc ? ? NY' 0,
Pierre. Dubail and Jean Pa.
F lisse. +
.: A 13th accused to figure atl
the trial will he former coun-
.ter-Intelligence chief Marcel'
LeRoy, alleged to have known
about the planned kidnaping:;;
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