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REFERENCE(S)

A. OFPA 59 0152, 13 June 1961B. C. '5879, 5 July 1961C. C._=a 398, 10 July 1961D. OSBA'1934, 11 July 1961

1. During the past few weeks, E ... Station has followed with interestthe development of the so-called abduction plot mounted against Leon DeGrelle .by Zwy Herbert ALDOUBY and company. Chronological developments took thefollowing pattern from our viewpoint here in Madrid. .

2. On 4 July C--.1 . reported tnusthat a French and an IsraeliSubject had been arrested by t: 3 at a'Barcelona 'frontier post (see refer-ence B). On 10 July,•Chief•of Base, C- . . Z3 reported that the Subjects •were Zwy Herbert ,ALDOUBY and Jacques Simon FEIkSOHN with appropriate detailsand background. It also appeared that the Subjects had firearms as well asmany incriminating documents in their possession that showed they wereplanning to kidnap or assassinate Leon DeGrelle (see reference C). On 11July, Chief . of Base, C =1 forwarded photographs of the documents, thearms they were carrying, and Photographs of the Subjects themselves.

3. On 14 July 1961 another member of theALDOUDY . fteam" entered intothe picture when an American subject, MiseCarol Lois , TIEIN, appeared atthe American Consulate in Madrid desiring advice from the American Embassy.Miss KLEIN. claimed she was the, fiancee of Zwy Herbert ALDOUBY and had methim after a shipboard romance in late May 1961 while enroute from New Yorkto Europe on the SS Liberte. At this tite•she•also.met an associate ofALDOUDY named Igal MOSSFNSON, an Israeli citizen. Mits • XLEIN'setory isself-explanatory and a memorandum from the Legal Attache, Madrid Embassy,explaining same is forwarded as attachment A to this dispatch. It willalso be noted on page three of this attachment that during theeecond.inter- .view with Miss..KLEIN on 14 July 1961, she returned to the Embassy accompaniedby a French, Moslem girl 'whom she addressed as Barbara. We assume Barbara may

. be the so-called "Moroccan girl, professional spy", Mentioned in paragraph 9of attachment to Reference A. She, was later mentioned in c_ -zvreportas the attractive blond, a Moroccan Jewess who would "lure" Leon DeGrellefrom his residence so that he could be kidnapped by ALDOUBY and company.C.- --7 sat in on the first ' conference with . Mits • KLEIN, along with .the Legal Attache and the Consul.

4. On 14 July C. 77 reported to the writer that one 'Igal MUSSINSOHN(probably identical with Igal NOSSENSON) had been called , to the attention of

because of his unusual behavior. MOSSENSON crossed the Spanishfrontier:at Barcelona on 2 July 1961 carrying' an Israeli passport with aSpanish visaobtained from the Spanish.Consul in MarSeillo, France. MOSSENSONwas evidently under surveillance by C_. :Ifrom the time of" his and .traveled from Barcelona tolValencia where.the, a 2 .continued.their'surveillance. When MOSSENSON was preparing' to leave .ftlencia for Barcelona ,(dateunknown), the Cl =decided to pick him up and interview him (because of •the following, it is believed that.hevas.picked up in Valencia sometime afterthe apprehension of ALDOUBY on 3 July). The c_... interview determined that-MOSSENSON carried identification listing him as a .Captain in ' ,the 'Israeli Armyand the police also discovered in his possession a roll of Undeveloped filmwith the word "ALDUBI". written on it. ..Sinceno other incriminating evidencewas found on the person of MOSSENSON, he was quietly asked : to leave the.country and reportedly was escorted to the Spanish border near Barcelona bythe L. ;) and deported .cALL R/D;F:trs c , ', .. , ,X7% 2138

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5. Meanwhile, back at the American Embassy in Madrid, Miss KLEINreturned in the late afternoon of 14 July bringing the unknown FrenchMoslem girl with her and informed the Consul that she had reservationsfor the Iberia flight departing Madrid for London at 10:10h.m.on 15 July1961. She also delivered to the Consul a large envelope.which had beenopened and resealed with Scotch tape and which was addressed to Zwy HerbertALDOUBY c/o American Express, Madrid, Spain. She admitted obtaining andopening all the mail addressed to the Subject. She left the package withthe Consul and stated that after her arrival in London, she would communicatewith the Embassy in order that the mail could be forwarded to her. As of26. July she has not been heard from. On 15 July the American Consul wentto the airport and confirmed Miss KLEIR's departure for London on the 10:10 a.m.Iberia flight.

6. The package mentioned in the paragraph above was made available tous, and its contents screened. Because of the various languages involved—French, German, Israeli etc., the contents were examined by variousqualified linguists at :3 Station. The following memorandum was writtenby c:

Notes on French-language material in dossier of Zwy .Herbert AIDOUBY.

A. A yellow paper fader containing some 15 or 20 letters fn.=prominent French people congratulating the author of a new French -dictionary, the "Robert". The letters are addressed to M. RogerROBERT, or to N; Charles VALLS,'and dated 1955 through 19604 'as .successive volumes of the'five-volume • dictionary appeared. Includedin the same folder are a few sheets of printed advertising materialfor the same 'dictionary.

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B. A brown fiber-board folder containing a serienof photostatsof . Congolese documents, such as a draft agreement of.10.June,1960signed by Antoine GIZENGA, among othersvan expulsion order from theCongo, addressed to one Mme. Andrea GERBILLAT,..wite of BLOUIN, and aletter from her to the Congolese prime minister (not named); a.hand-•written Paper signed by GIZENGA; correepondence between the CongoleseGovernment and the United Nations Secretary General, HAMMARSKjOLD. •Included in the same folder is a photostat Of travel order. given on5 June 1941 to the soldier GERBILLAT, fnu, instructing , him to travel,to Jerusalem; other identification papers of the sate period, withphotographs, of Pierre Antoine GERBILLAT, including his passport andidentity card, his birth certificate ) his international drivers'license. .(Following this is an 88-page typewritten document inGerman and a series of handwritten notes in English, French, andGerman. The portion of these notes in Ehsliah and French appears tobe memoranda regarding a trip . to and travel in tho Congo, as thoughthe writer were preparing to make some more formal report, Or writean article for publication. Certain of the notes are on stationeryof the Hotel Carlton, Lausanne, Switzerland. These might repay muchcloser study than I gave given them since I am not an expert onCongolese matters and cannot evaluate, them. At the end of this folderis a 16-page typewritten documententitled "Der Vnterei in der 'ForcePnbligne").

C. A mustard-yellow paper envelope containing about 40 glossyprints orphotograPhs stamped on the back with the names of photo-graphers in Israel. Some of these show what, is apparently thearriAfal of a man who could well be the GERBILLAT whose papers aredescribed above.' Accompanying him is a young man ind a. young woman.A 36-page manuscript in English, ascribed to Zwy ALDOUBIend AvitalMOSSINSOHN, relates to' the Fishman trial. 'Following these are .clippings in French from a magazine, one concerning the 'possibilitythat Martin BORMANN.is alive and the other discussing, the GrandNnfti of Jerusalem with the title "On the Track of the Grand Nnfti%The last item is about 20 pages,' in French, taken frord.an.unknownmagazine', and entitle "The Palestinian Affair; Document a from ArabSources". CALL RIDIFILES, EXT.•2158

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7. The most interesting documents have been •photographed ::on microfilm.and are forwarded in this dispatch as Attachment C. A sealed letter -addressed to the Subject from Isaac BENSIMON, Menorah .Insurance,andj/ein—.surance Company,. Ltd., FOB 927, Israel, , wae.also 'Opened and.:.examined. , Since this letter is probably written in Hebrew, C: 2Stationwas unable to translate it. Photographic 'copies are attached foraddressees. •

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8. The package containing all ALDOUBY's notes and unfinished' articleswas examined with care for the names of individuals who may have been involvedin the Paris end of this operation such as C Roger Katz, or Others. -Nothing was found in 'this regard. Allot' the papersvas previously noted,.appeared to be concerned with the trial of Eichmenn in Israel and, thedevelopments in the Congo in Africa. The more interesting documents havebeen photographed and the undeveloped film, is being forwarded as Attachment Cto this dispatch.

•9. As of this writing, both ALDOUBY and FEINSOHN are still being

detained by the C.. in Barcelona and at this time E: _2)Station.has little or no knowledge of how this case is being handled by Spanishauthorities. Both C.:. and C. =7 . have received strict orders not to,discuss this case with Liaison and have only told us that they cannotdiscuss Leon DeGrelle and will not even -"admit knowledge of his existencehere in Spain." If the Subjects are tried; it will probably .te.for trans-porting arms illegally into Spain and the DeGrelle "aspects" of the casewill probably not be revealed. Addressees will be kept informed of anynew developments in this case as they become available to CI Static*.

/27 July 1961 CALL RORIE'S, EXT:2158

FOR ATTACHMENTS. CIA RECORDS.Attachments:A. Legal Attache memorandum re Aldouby CENTER JO 1,10.B. Letter to Aldouby from Isaac' BENSIMON BOX hufel)%. C. Undeveloped 'filmi of partial contents of Aldouby pac ge)--PCS71447..VD. Political Letter #53 dated 11 July 1961 from the Atherican

Consul General, Barcelona, Spain, to Ambassador Biddle,Madrid.

E. AMEMB Dispatch #54, dated 21 July 1961Distribution:

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