DE GAULLE'S RIGHT-HAND MAN ACCUSED

Chronicle (Levin), 7 May 1946, Page 5

DE GAULLE'S RIGHT-HAND MAN ACCUSED

Reeeived Alonday, 3.20 p.m. LOXDOX, May 6. f'olonel 1'aoul de Wnvrin, known to the resistance niovement as Colonei ; Passy, one of de (laulle 's right-iiand j men as liead of the general 's secrct ser ) vice department, uas arrested last niglit witli- lifty other members of the organ isation known as D.G.F.R. (Direction General d'Ftudeset de Documentation i. : D.G.F.R. was the secret inteliii-eiK e auo jcounter espionage orgayisatioii which . led to clashes with the British authorities in London wlien de Gaulle was | forniing the J-'ree French Organisation i after the liberation of France and had : been the object of re])t>ated criti'cism, j with extreme leftist newsjrapers bramt- ! ing Wavrin as " de Gaulle 's liinnnler. [ l.eftist newspapers also described Wavrin as the brains of an evcntunl neoj Fascist putsch. It is oflicially staied i that Wavrin and his collaborators hau i !>eea ])laced under close arrest as the re- , sult of an administrative impiiry. An i thoritative (juarters assert that the ar j rests have no political signilieance. i Wavrin is a 3S-year-ol(l former I regulur artillerv officer. Ile ;joined de j Gaulle in Fondon in 1940 aml reeeived ia British decoration for his secret visits i to France during the oreupation to orgtanise sabotage and espionage. | Wavrin, replying to attacks from | Leftist newspapers, denied that | D.G.F.R. was used for political spying linside France or was run by ineu with ; reactionary political views. Wnvrin saiil France, liefore the war, never had ; a ]>roperly conducted iutelligence seri vice abroad. There was nothing alij norma] about her having^one now.