Mehdi Ben Barka

[Magda Hassan]

One such clue pertained to [Ronald]Biggs' son, "Mikezinho," who was born while his father was a fugitive in Rio. "Little Mikey" had a very interesting godfather, a man with powerful European connections and who, like Werner Blumer, was in the business of selling art.
This was Fernand Legros, who concerns us here only because his association with Biggs's, and Biggs's friends in Rio, adds perspective to what might be called "the Invesco circle."
Legros has been described as a "playboy, millionaire, art dealer and CIA agent..." [108] A native Egyptian, with apartments in Switzerland, France and Spain, he was a homosexual whose lovers included the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Dag Hammerskjold) and members of French cabinet. [109] A naturalized American, Legros resorted to at least four passports: French, American, Canadian and British.
It is alleged (by author Henrik Kruger and others) that Legros played a lethal role in the mysterious (and still unsolved) kidnapping and murder of the Moroccan dissident, Ben Barka---who disappeared from the streets of Paris (where Legros owned an art-gallery) in October, 1965. According to Kruger, Legros had been in contact with Ben Barka in Geneva, where the art-dealer had a second gallery and both men had apartments. Lured to France, Ben Barka was kidnapped, tortured and killed. While his disappearance remains unsolved, the operation has often been attributed to French gangsters (including a man named Christian David) acting on Legros's orders. Legros himself is believed to have been working at the time for either the CIA or France's SDECE.

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