FRENCH SPY NOVEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200660059-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: October 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Al c G r a w -11111. 341 pp.; -eign policy for four years. .: substance in fact, that of a
TOPAZ. By L e o n Uris. been shaping France's for-; er plot which may have some
Reviewed by
Maitland Zane
French spies who when they,. dustrial espionage against:=g
sites in Cuba ... a beautiful
mistress ... . JFK in his finest
hour . . . brutish C a s t r o
henchmen .. .
Leon ("Exodus") Uris, in
his new fact (?) or fantasy
(?) spy thriller, has rung in
just about everybody but the
toad -1 i k e degenerate who'
wants to cut up the heroine
with a buzz saw.
The writing is up to Uris'
usual standards. Here is
some crucial dialogue be
tiween Juanita, the luscious
mistress, and Rico Parra, a
"She took his' crude, hand
! .and lifted it to her breast..
'As long as we're going to do
well enjoy it.`
es crisis, viz., a phony tri-
denly and slapped her s
m o u t h, 'Pigl Aristocratic sis hoked up by JFK and
pig l" 'Khrushchev.
his free hand raised ? sud- "'s "` "C -uoy Luoan mis-
il
against other nations - in -A
eluding "friendly" nations -',I
so there is nothing particu..7
larly startling in this.
that Uris believes Charles de' ?.l
Gaulle is so revengeful (be- ' ? ,
inflicted by President Roose- "'
velt) that he would condone., %
the existence of a Russian
spy ring in the heart of the'
NATO. alliance, and would
.cheerfully allow French-
Russian spies to penetrate
the Pentagon for Moscow's
gain.
There is a strong odor of
old fish about this scandalous
book. My guess is that a cer-
tain naive best-selling novel-
ist has been made a sucker
of by our own Central Intelli-
gence Agency in a high-level
American Intelligence plot to
smash, or. at least defame,
the. President ; of France.
Authentic History The Washington' Post. re-
.-ported that unofficial
As Book Editor William American sources confirmed
Hogan wrote in a recent col- the existence of a KGB de-
umn, Uris claims this book - fector who sounds very much, 01
represents authentic history, `like a similar character in `9
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and that events, bear out his 'Uris' book. This defector re-a;
lcontent.uo.a? that.: Mos.cow-l I as:_ 'veals the existence of anoth
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