Espionage charges
(N.Z.P A-Reuter— Copyright) ALGIERS, November 9. An administrative official at the French Embassy in Algiers has been arrested on espionage charges, the official Algerian news service announced last night. The official, identified as Mr Gerard Maurois, was seized by security police as an unnamed Algerian official handed him a bundle of documents, the news agency said. It did not say when Mr Maurois was arrested or what the documents were about. “The inquiry is continuing to determine all the ramifications of this affair,” it said. The agency said that Mr Maurois, a former lieutenant in the French Army, was employed by the Algerian Public Transport Company in 1956, but left Algeria when it won its independence from France in 1962. He returned to Algeria after a stay in Tahiti, where his wife worked for three years as a private secretary to security services in Papeete, the agency said.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 10
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