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...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 had got them from Rene Turpin, personal secretary to Jean Mons, head of the Defense Committee's permanent secretariat. "I did not pay them a franc," boasted Baranés. "They acted out of ideological sympathy for Communism...
When confronted with Baranés' stories, portly Communist Boss Duclos denied he had ever met him. "All I can tell you is that André Baranés is a dirty dog," he growled to reporters. Then, to add to the confusion, Turpin and Labrusse renounced their confessions. "I never gave Baranés any documents," said Labrusse. He said he had only "chatted" with Baranés as he would with any newspaperman. Turpin said he had only been "imprudent," but he had hoped his "imprudences" would reach Laniel opponents, who were trying to stop the Indo...
...that was the plan, it had misfired. The discovery that the first leak had occurred during Laniel's government diverted the onus from Mendes personally, and the arrest of Turpin and Labrusse scotched the innuendoes that Mitterrand was willing to be overtolerant to Communist infiltration of the government...
...blossom into a full-scale threat to the regime's existence, Mitterrand and his police needed more-facts and arrests. One morning last week, the police rocked the country with two arrests. Jailed as the men who leaked 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...
Secretary-General Jean Mons, not able to believe in the guilt of two such trusted employees, was brought to the ministry to hear their confessions. "Forgive me!" cried fat, thin-mouthed René Turpin, who had made a career by attaching himself to Mons and traveling upward with him. "This is an affair of crypto- Communism," said the police. "They knew perfectly well where their information was going. They wanted to give the opposition information for their campaign to stop the war in Indo-China and ban the atom bomb...