Word: baranes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Jean Dides. The witnesses ranged from ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud and Georges Bidault to dumpy ex-Pastry Cook Jacques Duclos, France's No. 2 Communist, who long has been running the party in the absence of ailing Maurice Thorez. In prison, nimble, wire-haired André Baranés (TIME, Oct. 11) methodically set to work fuzzing up his story of how he delivered records of France's most secret Defense Committee meetings to the Communists. His original story had been that he got them from Roger Labrusse, a Defense Committee official. Labrusse in turn...
Blunt Hint. Before a military court of inquiry, Dides at first stuck to his refusal to reveal his source. But after a second grilling, he revealed that he got the papers from a shady little Tunisian named André Baranès, a fellow-traveling journalist. As Dides described him, Baranes played the doubly devious game of passing government secrets to the Reds and Red secrets to Dides. Where did Baranes get the documents , he handed over to Dides? "A policeman." said Dides "doesn't ask his agents where they get things." Baranes,however, could not be found...
...from the Defense Committee were René Turpin, 42, and Roger Labrusse, 40, both ardent leftists and both high-ranking officers on the staff of Jean Mons, the permanent secretary-general of the Defense Committee. At the Interior Ministry, the two confessed to turning over the secret minutes to Baran...
...government in turn turned more heat on the case. It promptly suspended Jean Mons from his secretary-general's post, then indicted him for "laxity" in imperiling the the handling of nation's state security secrets. and Then police caught the scent of André Baranès: Jean Dides, after withholding the information for two days, reported that he was hiding out in a country house south of Paris. The hiding place, oddly enough, was provided not by the Communists but by a right-wing deputy of the National Assembly. The police caught up with Baran...
Paul M. Levine '54 was elected president of the Harvard Liberal Union at its election meeting in the Winthrop Junior Common Room last night. Milton S. Gwirtzman '54 was elected vice-president, Frank I. Goodman '54, secretary, and Stephen Baran '52, treasurer...