Mehdi Ben Barka person
also: Ben Barca, Ben Barka, Ben Barker, Ben Berka, ben burka, Ben Burka, Bimbarco, Binbarka, Medai Ben Barka, Mede Ben Barka, Moroccan exile leader
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Claims (9)
Time-Life published_article_about
Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“about Ben Barka. I didn't even know who he was before I read Daniel Garin's article or work. Time Magazine, which we all know is basically a mouthpiece for the CIA, promptly published a curious article purporting to prove that Ben Barka had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 1:06:19
Mehdi Ben Barka founded
United National Popular Forces documented
“In 1956, Morocco gained its independence. Three years later, Ben Barca founded the UNFP. Basically, it stands for United National Forces Popular. In 1961, Hassan was crowned and appointed himself the prime minister. In 1963, the National As…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 7:34
Ferdinand Lagrosse ordered_assassination_of
Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“Who would that be? Ferdinand Lagrosse? You mean the guy that was involved in the Ben Berka case in France? That CIA agent is in Brazil? How? That's weird. Huh. The same Lagrosse whom Leroy fingered as the man who gave the orders for Ben Ber…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 57:31
Mehdi Ben Barka assassinated
Mohammed Oufkir book_quoted
“The following evening, General Akkar and Colonel Delimy and Moroccan intelligence agencies arrived. Soon afterward, Ben Barka was tortured and killed by Akkar himself and buried by hired assistants. Implicated were the Moroccan government, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 2:41
Mohamed Akerr assassinated
Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“That was mistake number three, because Zorita never did lose touch with the mob or La Machin. Meanwhile, de Gaulle's crowd concluded, perhaps after gaining wind of certain rumors, that Ben Berka had been knocked off by Ocker. That suited th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 47:41
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“in the quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon's declaration in June of 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to the creation of the Watergate White House plumbers with their Cuban exile members and even hit squads with the avowed purpose of tac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 10:19
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“The CIA wanted to, quote unquote, help Ben Barca, help him out with his Moroccan politics. All three goals could be realized only by assassinating him or taking him to Morocco and allowing them to do whatever they saw fit since they had alr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 15:27
Joe Attila carried_out_attack
Mehdi Ben Barka host_asserted
“who was then just a small hood guy, gang. Together, they worked in Algeria. They were involved in a long series of shady intelligence capers, including the infamous kidnapping of Colonel Antone Argaud and Mede Ben Barka. After 1962, Adia wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 1:01:17
George Fagon recruited
Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“would have been taken care of by de Gaulle's unsuspecting staff. For the practical details, the French hired a gangster, George Fagon, an acquaintance of Le Marchand, who moved in very different circles than he did. Quite casually, they loc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 23:52
Mentions (8)
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the French intelligence agency, or that he had confessed to involvement in the 1965 assassination of Moroccan Mehdi Ben Barka. And we'll go into him during this book. The Barka murder was one of the major unsolved French intelligence assass…
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Even in The Heroin Trail, which deserved a Pulitzer Prize, it states only that David's confession to participating in a plot to murder Ben Berka, a Moroccan lured to France under false pretenses by the French Italian, excuse me, French inte…
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to books published in England or France to learn that it was not de Gaulle who wanted Ben Berka killed, quite the contrary, but some other government or government's intelligence agencies. The leading suspect was the CIA. An Oxford historia…
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meaning Charles de Gaulle, government, not only had no interest in Ben Berka's death, but had every interest in his survival. Ben Berka was an anti-American third world nationalist leader with a lively admiration for General Charles de Gaul…
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Philip Williams, the Oxford historian, himself then suggests two possible hypotheses, which are both compatible with each other and close to what Kruger believes is true. One, much favored, especially among de Gaullist, was collaboration wi…
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which was being organized by Ben Berka. And I'll just stop right here because this is exactly what happened with Indonesian President Sukarno. When you organize international organizations that go against the imperialist aims of the Western…
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Another was the French intelligence were obliging either to Moroccan intelligence as such, or the Moroccan intelligence chief, whom Williams described elsewhere as too pro-American for the De Gaullist, in a personal vendetta against Ben Ber…
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he was a double agent for the CIA, unquote. In other words, the Oxford expert a decade ago had already explored Kruger's hypothesis that disloyal elements in the De Gaulle cabinet and intelligence agencies acting at the behest of the CIA ha…