CIA ROLE IN BEN BARKA CASE TO BE REVEALED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100360030-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 30, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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CIAN{OLE IN BEN BARHA CASE TO BE REVEALED
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(Text) The Paris paper L'AURORE speculates that during the next few days revela-
tions will be made to prove the participation of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) in the kidnaping' and probable murder of Moroccan leader Mehdi Ben
Barka. The report in the paper. L'AURORE agrees with the report published recently
The Parisian weekly published an interview with a
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by the weekly PARI
farmer aif +xer ln,tthe drench Bot>r-tere~piQna3~Q PgrYjee who declared that the CIA haf
able to kidnap den Barka.I
supplied part of a large sum of money for those who were
The PARIS MATCH report said that most of the total sum offered for the kidnaping
s plied by General Mohamed Oufki
xas up
of Ben Barka, approximately 250,000 dollars,
Moroccan interior minister.
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