The Tri-Continental Conference and the Ben Barka Affair
In Jannay, 1966, representatives from revolutionary movements in .sia, Africa and Latin America attended the Tri-Continental Solidarity Conference in Havana, Cuba. Although the Anerican press...
...Although the Anerican press played down this most significant meeting, it was the first time since the 1955 Bandung Conference that the Third world net to discuss and organize world...
...In the subsequent trials (still under u.ay),it was brought out that Ben arka as delivered into the hands of MIoroccan liinistnr General Oufkir...
...A leading underworld informer who kne ruch about the case was fox.t;d slain and three of the six layers representing Ben Brk.a's interests "died" within a 6 week period of "heart attac!s" and a "cerebral hemorrhage" (T/Y.T...
...Based in Geneva, the city best suited .or making contacts and distributing funds throughout the world, Ben Barka carried out the delicate operation of identifying and inviting the "right" factions in divided movements, weeding out hostile agents and mna king arrangements for travel...
...Press accounts, specially in the U4S.,emphasized his role in NMoroccan politics and ignored his Third orld responsibilities, thus putting the crime solely in the perspective of a nrro national feud...
...3/17/67) The probable underlying motive for Ben 3arka's removal was clearly set forth by David R.ousset of Le Fiparo Litteraire (10.20.66...
...Since one of the main taskts of the Tricontinental e was to rovide financial and military support for the guerrillas, as well as unify them and wor out a common strategy for all the Latin American movements, its eas by no means ust one more conference...
...Laixyers representing Ben Bar!Ealts family established that several ranking French officials :nels of the plot...
...Therefore, "the main objective was not to kill Ben Barka, but to seize him his information and his archives " (emphasis added...
...It ras revealed that rench underworld figures, in cooperation with the police and intelligence services, were de- . ly involved...
...The attempt in 1965 to hold an fro-ksian Unity Conference in Algiers was rpset by the overthrow of Ben Bella a. the bombed destruction of the meeting hall...
...ide efforts to defeat colonialism and imperialism...
...But in Oct., 1965 3en Bara disappeared...
...The extension of the froAsian Solidarity movement to Latin America (in 1963) as "considered by ashington a direct threat to the security of the United Stttos...
...It was obvious that a newr conference could only be held in a country relatively safe from foreign intelli(continu-td on the next page)NACL Newsletter, April '67 -10 gene agents and provoEateurs...
...The man in charge of bringing together overt and covert, legal and illegal revolutionary organizations from all over the :uorld was tiehdi Ben Barka, an eciled Moroccan opposition leader...
...after being arrested by Paris narcotics suad agents, he was delivered into the hands of the Moroccan Minister of Interior (and Intelligence), General Oufkir...
Vol. 1 • April 1967 • No. 3
