D3 196 | 430K aa “Report NO. OFP 12572 of ee __NO.E PAGES: ae ee 7 REPORT / APPROVED BY: sare Ps Vanes | No. ENCLOSURES: .. DATE. OF REPORT: 26 Ay rit 1963. S c Breiny ter 3 HONE whoa By. copy to: : REFERENCES: OP 297 - Orally to: | SOURCE CRYPTONYM: a “ID Non AG: NOW UNTROPHY _ __ KRYPTON: o YES" fNO. SOURCE, OPERATIONAL DATA, AND COMMENTS: _Sourees UNTROPHY apa ; FIELD COMMENT - - + page: re RNSHROUD from. Roger Sirgen | SUBJECT: Current status of Activist Group in France FORM -NO. 5 Bt 59 , 1 NOV. 53 PREVIOUS’ EDITIONS MAY BE USED. HW 53199° DocTd:32349818~ Page 8°
| S2eRET A Fe FOREIGN DISSIN/CONTROLLED DISSEM anirep DISSEN/NO Ee AE te SE aN INES RRO TORI 509 IEE SPM ELET 1 PaO France | OFP. 11297 Francs, Paris. 23 April 1963 1 Nate YR ALE Gk Ne way oa OES Oe TE: Lomanphien <abetielhlonsheelenana py unt araod 31S. S_UREVALUATED PLEASES SOURCE, oRADIERGS Ane periniivg, ne APERAISA ; Sa aA EAM 1 SS : Was prepared. yt as. a “background ‘study. for. its internal use nasa Following: ‘the announcement by | Georges Bicault on:9 April. 1962. of. the creation - of a National Council of Resistance. (CNR) (bas edon ‘the. Ordonnance Salen of - .30 March 1962). the Executive Comittee | appeared .: “ereated - in Kay 1962 in. Rene in order. to" "ef fect tively’ assure: the ‘gonduct. of. the. War “en: the: Giverse theater “of operations ‘In the Metropole: Al igeria, and outside of ‘Prance {the exterior)”. At the beginning of, November. 1942, at ‘a siseting: held in Lisbon.the representativ: “of the Algerian refugees who were members of: the Secret’ ray’ ‘Organisazion (OAS). nd Livi ing - dn Spain, Joined the CNR io with the ‘exception | £ ex-Colonel: Pierre’ Chateau-Jobert. and his - partfcans. in; bringing” ‘tegethe t he. Spanish and. Algerian omnittee with. the title 4 _ Buropeen eountries” - West. Germany ypelgion.: Austria and ‘Ttaly, ‘not: clondestinely * Vv, “but with false identities. Until recently, Georges Bigguit. and the Ribesud .. ss 4 1usiY Agi were :in: West teruten as were ‘exsVolonel 3 Bey Gedard. ‘Roland’ Vaudrey, fer Te «Dufour end. exeCaptain. het.!' gin Spain were Do as afi! agenvested)s ex-Captein Jean ouetre | seecraoopoulos’¢ called LABSOU: the ‘Greok ‘Yueien. | | Wh. Poet rahi ‘ a ores? “atin ~ these mds ‘Bic Acertein, ‘number i po — H | {
at vd ry . . . Dep, As Gomranders of tis “opel iien Toots OF oseietions, Ox Capwain Ploy: 7 . yl ox Sergent recemily agguncd the tanotdens uf Chief of Stare of the Direetion F ; TWA OF Organization snd Action. Ya prancivie, Serrent wi stelled in . be ‘ ; hy, aaa sy Aol > Bolgiun or Weat Germany, with the pesstoilicsies o? briefs torriseiy. His presanee has also beea not i Oo ° ce oo a {> fe fs o s » Jn Sramee several subveraive organi:ms:zs claim eldanee with the fraction of | Organization and Action of the Executive Comuittee of the GM. Among those APe3 f,. Operational Organization: This is th Organisation dis Rengeignenenis e% Operaticns (ORO) in charge of astion and intelligence collection, In 2052, after the eviction of the ex-Captain Curutchet, éx-CipGain Dendeteall)> took over this branch. Chant of the OL Branch of the ORO, Bailie Ho kasva es "Michel OL" and his presence and activities in Paris have been noticed enveral tine since Cctobar 1942, Liaisons are essured botwaen Baills and those abroad by special liaison agents. in the Metropole, those agents maintain covtacts with an orgailigation whose structures 1g supposed to be the following: a oon, oy ' (2) eraias Bua = 10. A very aelect group charged with the manggenont of personnel and finances. ‘Tho heed of iio bureau “ag not boon tdontified. (2) Deuxitéme. Burcau - 20, An 4ntelli fence Service on a nptional gcale, the Deuriéme Buresu (2 B/ORO) agsuses the ce ntraaigati:n and exploitation of the intelligence gathered by the regiowsl diyialligence bureaus. On the Pifteenth of ezch month, the deuxlézs bureau write: a synthends of the activities of the "SScurité, Barbouzes, Elateurs, Mieos en garde, Informations Mitropolia. Algérie Ktrangere and Dezande de Revsoigniments Divers", The netrorks of the Deuxiémé Bureau use intelligence agenis, notesly ia the public administration, Yor severe! wonths the nutions2 head of the 2 B/ChD was Csorges'Buseia, recently | &fpested in Pais, a (3) Troigiime Bureau - 50.9 An operatic. service, the Troisi&ue Bureau Action has as a mission assusination atterpts eradnst individuals and installations spseifieally General de Gawl.la (epsxation ALPHA), epot operations and hold-ups, In principlk, the Buveny Ac.lon vas to have been subdivided into regional echelons, In fact, 4t appsars thet trig Bureau, directed by Gilles “X ®usela, brother of Georges Buseia, cperated throughout the ccuntry a group of . activists of abeut 30 wen, “a hard Ore, Beur) ond seeret to the central echelon” which was created in a directive of 1 Pebruary 1963. with the uniting of the 048 group in Spain with the CNR, i% Lt sossible that this Bureau Action was reinforced by soike elements foreriy belie: wing to the "commandsa" of Alicante ami Zain’ Sebastien which had been used for ita.ted missions, {5} Quatrddme Burean — 40, A logistics birnvh, the Guatréaue Bureau is responsible for the Sccurity and supports of tne memborg of the organization, the Lodging, the clandestine croseing of the trintders and the provision of faise identity escunents. fuse Chief of the Qricldne Bureau has bean identified 23 antaine Nuciani, already scught after by tle Vrench Police for the Petit . Climartattacis, —— (ARP -_ . Wet ceatrrenmoercre meando 3, Who Propaganda Orrenteations Phe Bureau de 2°A.tdon Payckologique et de A PON BLORLS ONS ES On Saychologique et de organization is princivally cencerned with tha distribution of bulletins the mail to persone of the political antl journ\iist4e milieu. in Lasue 59 of 3 February 1963, the Weekly bulletin of ths CNR Prance Preazse Action. cunigué was published Btatang the enly putldicationa ne@oreed by the tive Committees were those which convey to the pre3s ‘se pesitions taken more, 2 NINE e . . fpcei de lo France «monthly review ef the CMR nee Prosge-Aetion » wookky bulletin ¢f the centre agency of the CNR rene: Appel de le France - weekly bulletin @irceted to the internatisnal press Pabliched in Prench,Enslish and \grnen, These distributed under the mame of the CNR: (L) Jeune Revolution ~ periedical etreuiated among the yout., (2) bes Centurions =" periodical ciroulated arong the miidiyy, in france, the circulation o? these publicntion: Ja irregulsr. event wae :" ! wie de miner 9 HW 53199 DBocld:32349618 Page 10
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Pia 10, - Hien for future use”. It is therefore epparent that under propitious circumstances Lh, 12. - “Enterests of repatriates. envisages the establishment of a movement which will . organization in place in the country for conditioning of the * population for the . it /NO spnton ASF 17 CONTRO? TED IMSSEMTANT LED SSE obs aan ey in naa hain varin were saben dims. “a oy “ding ns at isiel an) . ot x' Asneckation an Pous £, Etude et Ja Reforge des Steuctures de L°Etat (AENSE). ruck ‘by Colonel Pauldtringuler who arranges Por provincial delegations and: i hopes te extseblish 2 msgs organization. bd 5"Union Nationale des Parachutistes (UNP). Also created by Colonel cringuiet thig group consists of former parachutists. c.4Le Rasaemblement National. des Francais Rapatries a'Afrique du Nord et aeahianeOeap; pupeiens 4 mpramnenmntngr enmrnr ail a’ ‘Outrerer (RNAFRANCE » this group, umler the pretext of defending the edvoc te fighting for Algerie Prancaige. La Federation deo Etudiants Nationilistes (FEN). Dedicated to organizing the “oeudent ena to int ortering in the Live of the Univuradty. ¥ Le Mouvement de Combat Contre-Révolutiennaine (HR). Created by ex-Colonel ChateaueJobort, installed in Sain since the indopendence of Algeria. In its publication, Appel, dated 21 Septei tisy 1962 and in its Bolitical snd Social Maniteste in which Chateau-Jobert eupresses its doctrine, ara Pound the princip} es of the MiP. 13 of Robert Martel and of the "Forces Newvellos Franeaises" of Doctor Lefevre who made common cuuse with the former OAS leader from Céenstantinople. Despite zany urgeat appeils, Chateau-Jobert refus tc rnily to the CNR and his wovement retained its autonomy. Following a particularly violent poleamle carried cn in pamphlets, the uplit between the two movenents became know to the public. Tne MRC asserts tha’ in the immediate future it will devote itself solely to pelitical action anil getting a valid takeover of power by violence. n effect, although it prescribes "neither extortions, nor plastic explosions, nor hold ups”, the MOR urges its followers to "grease their weapons and to hide recourse to violent action to seize power hag been condond, end several deposits of arms. one of which was very large, have recently bean cigcovered. In principal, the doctrine of the MOR and the personality of ita founder must linit the audience of the movement to Catholics of the extreie ight and to certain milicary circles. Since the wention of the MCR, dissemination of propagundn by brochures has been instigated particularly in the southwest. With Apres hart yes srumbers 1 ara 2, Le Menifesate Politique e. Social, one must alle wite L’Actio: Contre-Révolutionnaire, the officia o organ of the MCR. Im vegaré to Guypressing Yhe MCR. several clandestine networks have dgen dealt «ith, notably in Corsica. Marseiile, Bordeaux, Vichy. Metz-and Tours. From currently available information on activists. it 4s apparent that there are sericus differences and rivalries among the groups The public polenmica _ setween the MCR and the CNR, the financial difficulties and the loss of all Snternational credit, are the marks of an ascentuated deo.ine. W: verthelass, 4t is advisable not to lozs sight of the fact that there etill exists a core of bitter officers, Algerian refugees, and irrepressible avnewers living in : hiding. waating for the right moment to perpetrate agsassirutions wnd sew disower. Pield Comment?) Cn 18 April, a usually reliable source who kes goed contacts in French. security services stated that the Governnent was very much concerned wf about the CNRI. hey believe the directors of the CNRI are Influential military ead givilien leaders and that thore are CNRY collaborators on the higheut police Leyelg. Source speculated that this included the bureau ererted specifically to combat the OAS (probably the Bureau de Lisison is meant). HW 53199 Docld:32349818° Page 12