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...significant dissent came from the director of an agency believed to serve as a front for French espionage. In a Radio Luxembourg interview, Colonel Roger Barberot of the Bureau for Agricultural Production Development speculated that the SDECE had used the heroin-smuggling incident to railroad De Louette. Said Barberot: "My conviction is-and some will tell you so officially -that the operation was mounted by a certain number of SDECE ageats in Paris. De Louette had to be got rid of in the United States. It is the sequel of that operation that is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The French Connection | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...Swim. For some the answer is De Gaulle. The morning after Pleven's failure to form a government, Paris is plastered with posters declaring: "Call De Gaulle and France will be France!" Newspapers proclaim that a Colonel Barberot has convoked a meeting of the "Companions of the Liberation" because "13 years have sufficed to show that all we fought for has been lost," and that "in the service of our country we must use the capital represented by General de Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARIS IN THE SPRING: Apathy, Ennui & Pleasant Pique-Niques | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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