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Tipped Off. So who had had Abu Daoud arrested and why? That was the question of the week. The most plausible answer was Israel, whose intelligence agents keep close watch on P.L.O. terrorists. By alerting friends in the DST to Abu Daoud's presence in France, they could both embarrass Giscard for his pro-Arab policy and score another round against the Palestinians. Yet despite reports that Israeli agents had tipped off the French in Beirut that Abu Daoud was on his way to Paris, intelligence sources in Tel Aviv denied that they had had anything to do with...
...Israelis were not behind it, who was? According to one account circulating in Paris last week, the DST had sent out a tracer to Western intelligence agencies at the time the Palestinians requested their visas. The CIA, followed by the British and the Israelis, confirmed that Raji was Abu Daoud...
...information was passed to the West Germans, who signaled Paris of their intention to seek Abu Daoud's arrest and extradition. The DST's failure to inform higher-ups led some to believe that pro-Israeli officials in the DST and other ministries were out to torpedo the pro-Arab government of Giscard...
...fact, the DST is notorious for playing political games-and Giscard's government was clearly the loser in the debade, although no one expected it to affect French foreign policy seriously. Declared one former French Foreign Ministry official: "There's only one way for France to go. The Arabs are the future, and we're honest enough to admit it. We realize Abu Daoud will probably come back to Paris one day as a Palestinian government Cabinet minister...
...Canard accused the government of committing a "Watergaffe." It believed that the eavesdroppers were from the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French counterintelligence service. It even published names of eleven suspects unearthed by its own reporters. The Interior Ministry promptly classified the work of the eleven agents top secret, thus making them immune from any court questioning...