Posted on 11/14/2004 4:03:12 PM PST by kupia_kummi
THE French Government will make public classified documents relating to the 1965 disappearance of the Moroccan opposition leader, Mehdi Ben Barka, which caused a major political scandal.
Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie had agreed to follow the recommendations of a national defence committee and release the 73 documents on the case which had not yet been made public, defence ministry officials said today.
The committee's decision came after a magistrate investigating Mr Ben Barka's disappearance asked to see the documents.
Previous secret documents on the affair, which caused political uproar, were made public in 2001.
Mr Ben Barka, an outspoken opponent of then Moroccan king Hassan II, disappeared without trace after being picked up by French police on October 29, 1965. His body was never found.
The Moroccan secret services, French intelligence and the criminal underworld have all been implicated in the affair, but the facts have never been fully elucidated.
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Oui.
DeGalle was certainly NO angel.
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