European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse April 18, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 5 new rocket will Flok Sites Washington 40 is 0 4ft Paris spy tale called Cia plot Paris up a russian up influencing president Charles de Gaulle nonsense the news paper which started the Story said wednesday. It s All a plot bythe Cia. The satirical newspaper Leoanard enc Haine the chained Duck said the whole thing was cooked up by agents of the Cia and an embittered former French spy. Last week the newspaper said the memoirs of former col. Philippe Tharaud Devosjoli Tobe published shortly by life Magazine and the sunday times of London would seek to prove that de Gaulle s anti american policy really was fostered by a russian , however it said the tale is a vengeance cooked up Over several years a vengeance of the directors of Amer ican espionage in the first Case a personal vengeance of Vos Joly on the other it then told a tale intricate enough to have come from the pages of a second rate spy were these Cia agents Back in the Early 1960s, it said busily penetrating the French secret service. In 1962, it said de Gaulle decided to put a Stop to then said the newspaper certain gentlemen of the Cia were saying that de Gaulle took this decision at the instigation Ofa turncoat French colonel. The explanation was idiotic it added but the spies were so angered they were incapable providing anything else than z detective Story explanation then Devosjoli was assigned to Washington As a Liaison offi cer Between the Cia and the French secret service. Recalled to France he refused to return and has lived in the unite states Ever since. De Gaulle then ended cooperation Between the two nations spy services and from then on the explanations of de Gaulle s increasingly anti american poli cies came thick and fast. The great brains of the Cia had Only one explanation be canard enc Haine said. This was that the soviet agents in the French presidential Palace and he French secret service had collection efforts Mcnamara told the Senate armed services agreed with a suggestion from some commit tee members that North Korea should be made to feel she i worse off than she was before she do this he said North Korea will have to face stronger South Korea. Almost surely we will Nee to Supply additional military assistance to South Korea to build up her strength vis a vis North Korea he comments took on special significance in the Light of president Johnson s meeting in Honolulu with South korean president Chung Hee Park. Mcnamara said the Pueblo was scouting North korean radar defences by cruising the coastline outside the 12-mile territorial limit. Censored Testi Mony indicated that the Mission had been requested by Fiel commanders and had been reviewed and approved by Mcnamara and other top strategists one Point acting chairman John c. Stennis d-miss.,suggested that the North koreans May have hoped to divert strength from South Vietnam with the Pueblo seizure and at minimum Force the withdrawal of South Korea forces now fighting in Vietnam. Agrees with Stennis i think that was his first objective Mcnamara said and i think it is an objective we should insure that he does during the same hearing Gen. Earle g. Wheeler chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff said the Pueblo did not defend itself because it was outgunned and faced obvious he suggested that such a fight might have interfered with Jie primary objective of the Pueblo s Crew in such circumstances to destroy . Gen. George s. Br9\yn, Wheeler s assistant testified that the Pueblo twice asked for help. Wheeler and Mcnamara testified that . Planes were not sent from Japan because of poor weather the time Factor and the fact that available .planes would have been Putnum ended a seven year term As head of the Pentagon a few weeks after the Pueblo testimony and became president of the world Bank. Wee pals what is that song dlr and Wellington Are always singing ? whack it to me Pischitto me slam it 4
