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# SecretLUSTRIKER REPORT #231, KulpaSubj: Contacts, Jan 25-29 Jan.30 Jan 631.  Serge Michel: Saw him Alutti hotel, his house, and three times my house. He says Yasid is de facto Minister of Information now, and will become Minister of Information over the next few weeks or month. Michel stayed with El Chanb long enough to get it on its foet, then moved on to plans for Atlas. When Atlas is established, he will move on again to looks on Algeria and rne-shot publications. He is going to the Congo in early April for a week to gather material for articles on Angola and the Congo. He is taking the line that Kennedy and Khrushchev are "allies", with De Gaulle and Kao as enemies; thus Algeria should not support nor attack either one too much. He feels the Afrique Revolution is making political mistakes in this respect by attacking the United States (presumably with an article on Meredith & Mississippi) and can be termed the extreme left in Algeria. He feels Afrique Revolution will be taken over by Atlas staff in six months or less, and run on a less violent basis. Serge talked of his ancestors, saying they were all from Georgia, and that a translator was used when he talked with his grand parents who only spoke Georgian not Russian. He is an apatride with a Moroccan passport (which I saw but couldn't get the number) which contains his nationality as Moroccan, as opposed to other Moroccan passports for Algerians which have the nationality lined through. His father was apatride also, and Serge claims he feels more for Algeria than any other country. He arrived here the first time when he was 20 years old, and from that time lived with algerian rebels. He is 41 years old now. He has three boys, about one year, four and six, all with Russian first names, and occupies a villa in Hydra. His wife speaks French with an accent, Russian I believe. His infant is very sick with asthma.2.  Richard Gibson & wife: Saw them in his office as result of his request for photos for Dave Katts in New York for the latter's *Liberator* publication, which is a slick, leftist publication with a format something like a cross between Ramparts and The New Yorker. I gave him four photos without my name, but he insisted on putting my name on the back for credit. He said Katts would pay me directly, since he had my address already. He also said I would probably get photo requests from London from a person whose name he didn't remember. This person and Katts are also correspondants for Afrique Revolution in their cities. Mrs. Gibson is white, and appeared to me to be Jewish, probably from Brooklyn, judging from her accent. However, she could be foreign since the accent is difficult to place. Eduardo dos Santos was in the office, but wasn't very friendly. Gibson knew of my trip to Angola, probably from dos Santos via the Congo embassy in Tunis, and wanted some photos when I returned.3.  Joan Marie Boeglin: Boeglin phoned me, after having missed a luncheon with me last week. He has acted on my request to speak to Jacques Verges about using me when possible for Afrique Revolution. Verges is to meet me tomorrow to discuss photos. I am to bring one-violent action if possible-which is to be used as the first cover of Rev julon, if it is a suitable photo. Boeglin will be there, and we are to meet today to plan the conversation with Verges to make sure I benefit.4.  Djalal Tchanderli: (brother of U.H. Chanderli, although name spelled differently). He came to my home with Michel. He is going to the Congo to film Angolans in March, and wanted my agreement not to film for my cover company while there. I finally agreed, extracting a promise from his that he would not take any photos, thus leaving me that monopoly in exchange for the film monopoly. He & Michel feel they are related, both families coming from Georgia; & Michel having an uncle named Tchanderli.