CLASSIFIED MESSAGE: RE LE FIGARO ARTIEL ON MARCEL FRANCISI TRIAL; HERBERT ITKIN.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/08/1973
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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REFA DIRECTOR 299824

1. 8 MAY: ISSUE OF LE FIGARO HAS ARTICLE ON MARCEL

FRANCISCE TRIAL WHICH TOOK PLACE ON 7 MAY IN PARIS AND.

WHICH WILL BE CONTINUED ON 1I MAY, TRIAL TAKING PLACE

BECAUSE ERANCISCI HAS BROUGHT DEFAMATION PROCEEDINGS

AGAINST "TIME! MAGAZINES WHICH ACCUSED HIM OF BEING ONE

DE RGRAND BONNETS DE LA DROGUE",

• 2. SIAR WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE (TIME MAGAZINES

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HAS AMERIÇAN LAWYER HERBERT ITKIN, WHO HAS BEEN A WITNES'S

EOR THE PROSECUTION IN NUMEROUS TRIALS OF MAFIA LEADERS

IN THE STATES AND WHO GLAIMS TO HAVE HAD NARCOTICS DEALINGS

IN 196? WITH MARGEL E, STKIN ALSO CLAIMED TO WORK FOR

BRMERALD AS WELL AS FOR THE FBI, SEVERAL FORMER BNDD

AGENTS WHO WERE AGTIVE IN FRANCE, WERE AT HAND TO TESTIFY

AGAINST ERANGISCI, DEFENSE WANTED TO INTRODUCE INFO FROM

LOUIS DOUNGRET LETTER REGATOIRE WHICHO FOR PROCEDURAL

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REASONS: WAS NOT PERMITTED BY THE COURT.

3, EMBASSY NARCOTICS COORDINATOR MR. GUSTER

ATTENDED THE TRIAL. IF HO INTERESTED STAPION CAN SEND

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