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Meeting Philippe de Vosjoli, former head of French intelligence in the U.S., was a lucky break for Novelist Leon Uris, who based his popular novel, Topaz, on Vosjoli's account of his experiences. Now it is Agent Vosjoli's turn to feel good about the whole thing. The Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled that Uris broke his contract to split the Topaz profits with Vosjoli and therefore must pay Vosjoli $352,350, plus interest, plus half of all future earnings derived from the book...
...enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli...
...case, SDECE suddenly and inexplicably did a turnabout. It told De Vosjoli to forget about Martel and to set up an apparatus in Washington to collect information relating to U.S. military and scientific matters, including U.S. deployment of ICBMs. When De Vosjoli argued that this course was foolhardy, he was upbraided by his superiors for having played a considerable part in helping the U.S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba. Alarmed by Paris' new attitude toward the U.S., De Vosjoli resigned his post in disgust...
...Storm. Ironically, a fictionalized but transparent account of the whole affair, written by De Vosjoli's friend Leon Uris, has been on book counters for months in the bestseller Topaz. U.S. diplomats braced for a Gallic storm over it, but none materialized-perhaps because Topaz was not published in France. As of last week, all that the average Frenchman had read of the affair was some chatty, rather unalarmed accounts in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine and a few other papers. Despite the Elysee Palace's determination to live above the tempest, it may not be able...
...clear implication of De Vosjoli's piece is that the French intelligence agency and government may still be deeply penetrated by Russian agents...