NOVELIST URIS TESTIFIES ON ROYALTIES SPLIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200660003-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 6, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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The testimony was given -
~~~~~~~~.~ Uris De Vosjoli, 51, previous-
ly has testified that he left
his post as head of the
b u r e a u' s Washington
T~~~i~~~s ~~ branch because his super!-
9 ors paid no heed to his
warnings about Commu-
nist infiltration.
~~(jIfies Split De Vosjoli sued on the
Rbcontention that the book
yielded more than $1 mil-
Novelist Leon Uris testi- lion but that he -received
fied Wednesday that his only 565,000. Uris, 47, ad-
collaborator in the book mils the contract but says
"Topaz" wanted to expose De Vosjoli violated it him-
Communist influence in self by publishing some of
the French secret service his material under his own
so he could return to name.
written entirely by Uris Times photo
and appeared under his
name alone, was based. on - -
the Cuban missile crisis of
1962. much of it dealt with
the alleged presence of
.Communist sympathizers
in the French secret ser-
vice.
could return there as a
hero." AUTHOR - Leon Uris
The book, which was of ter court appearance.
vulsion in France so hey
hoped that advance publi-
city on the book would
cause a congressional in-
vestigation here and a con-
said that while they were
converting a French-lau-
guage manuscript written
by De Vosjoli into the nov-
el, the former French se-
e ret service agent ex-
pressed great fear for his
life.
Become a Hero
But Mr. De Vosjoli,"
Uris said, "nevertheless
net's for do Vosjoli, Uris
H. Schmidt's court at the
trial of the S2 million suit
in which Phillippe de Vos-
joli accuses Uris of violat-
ing a contract of May 27,
1965, calling for an equal
share in the royalties and
proceeds from film rights.
Called to the stand as an
adverse witness by attor-
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