FORMER FRENCH FASCISTS INVOLVED IN DRUG TRAFFIC

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
00023258
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RIFPUB
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U
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1
Document Creation Date: 
March 9, 2023
Document Release Date: 
August 18, 2020
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Case Number: 
F-2019-01204
Publication Date: 
August 13, 1973
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Approved for Release: 2020/08/17 C00023258 tzik � URUGUAY FOR=ER FP-MICH' FASCTS7S- 7 :I:7ED IN DRUG TRAP= [Article; Montevide.:, -,7.ular, Spanish, 13 Au3ust 1973, p 33 El Porular h eived some revealing information on the latest episode" drug pushers. tr,r1-e CordeEine, who 7as provided w7.7.t ::ruguayan-mamers and was recently murdered, was probe::_:: '..rdered killed by the "cigwigs" who have been backing the -%raffic to make sure that he woufik not. talk if captured 'by e 7o1ice. Similar circumstances yrcbably induce4,Francots C77.e to turn himself in voluntarily in Buenos Aires. Mori--:-71 that Frenchman has been linked to the fascist OAS (Secret '_77:7 Organization) just as Z1=21.stian David has to French anticanist organizations as proven when, on the latter's arres-t Brazil, he presented an allegedly Uru- guayan document th2.7-. ;_dentified him as being associated with the campaign again e Tupamaros. The false Uruguayan tapers all these French pusers had, are proof of the immunity wt.-7th which they have reoe:t17 been operating In Montevideo. We -have already described- In detail the murder of LLLIT, c211LEine, a dangerous gangster who used false Uruguayan papers dir the name of Mario Deniz Fernandez, the only additional information being the fact that. he had them for at least 10 year; just as did-other gangsters, wanted by the French Mdlice., Who - like Condemine.were igirdlved.inhe drugrtraffic in South Ameria especially in Montevideo and Buenos - Aires.- These others include Auguste Ricord, Francois Chiamme; Lucien Sarti, and the above- . mentioned Christian David - Total Immunity The daily L'Humamite, the central organ of the French Communist Party, recently noted that the last-named gangster was "right at home" in these parts. APPROV Pats FOR RELEA _ z u9 Approved for Release: 2020/08/17 C00023258