Word: vosjoli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Sinister Forces. The French intelligence experts, says De Vosjoli, left ashen-faced from their sessions with Martel and reported home with the emphatic finding that Martel knew what he was talking about. But except for the arrest of Paques, SDECE took no steps that Washington could see to flush out the spies. De Vosjoli's superior at SDECE explained that France could not stand a major scandal at a time when it was just recovering from the Algerian war, but De Vosjoli suspected that "other, possibly sinister, forces were the real reason for the inaction." He leaves open...
...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...